	This is a bare bones walk through of the Mechanical Age of MYST.  Although not every detail is covered, the basic points needed to get through the Fortress, find the red and blue pages, and the Myst book to return you to the library on Myst Island, are covered.
	The walkthrough begins in the Mechanical Age at the starting point.  If you need help getting to the Myst book that brings you to this age, see the walkthrough for Myst Island, it lists the means to reaching all the Myst books on the island.
	You begin at the large, open gear.  To the side is a combination lock panel that requires four pictures in correct order to be opened.  For now, follow the catwalk out to the fortress.  Enter the fortess and examine the two rooms inside.
	The room with weapons contains a pedestal with two knobs.  This is a simulator for the actual mechanism for rotating the fortress.  Practice with it until you get the hang of moving the fortress, there will be no indicator when it comes time to do it for real.  There are other items in the room to give you an indication of the personality of the former occupant.
	Find the secret panel located to the left as you look at the chair.  There is a blue page inside the room behind the secret panel.
	The room with the models and the spy glass also contains a secret panel.  Look behind the tapestry to the right as you look at the chair in this room.  There is a red page in the room behind this secret panel.
	There is a red button on the wall in the rear corridor connecting the two rooms.  Pressing the button reveals a set of stairs going down.  At the bottom of the stairs is a circular indicator and a lever.  Hold the lever forward until the circular indicator glows red and has an opening in the bottom of the circle.  This indicates that the column above is now open revealing an elevator.
	Go up the stairs and press the red button a second time to close the stairs.  Go down the hallway to the column at the center of the fortress, you can now enter it.  Press the up arrow and the elevator will take you to the top floor of the fortress.  Once at the top, do not leave the elevator yet.  First, press the square button between the up and down arrows, then quickly leave the elevator.
	The elevator will go part way down and the actual controls for rotating the fortress will be revealed on top of the elevator car.  Manipulate these controls as you did on the practice simulator in the room with the weapons.  The key to moving the fortress involves how long you hold the right hand lever forward.
	You will need to rotate the fortress to three of the four possible stopping points.  Two lead to small islands on which the code can be found for the four picture combination lock you found at the start of the age.  One stopping point leads to nothing but empty ocean.  The last is the original position of the fortress and leads back to the point you entered this age.  Get the complete, four picture combination and return the fortress to the original position.  Enter the four picture combination on the panel and press the red button.  A stairway will be revealed which leads down to a secret chamber.  In this chamber is the Myst book which will return you to the library on Myst Island.  Take either the red or blue page to the library and place it on the book of the same color.  Reading the book will give you part of the story.  Return to the Mechanical Age fortress by the Myst book in the large open gear on the hill by the dock on Myst Island and get the other page.  You will need to press the button on the four picture combination lock to reopen the stairway to the Myst book that leads back to the library.
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	Enjoy - Bravo  1994