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Olympus Heights

safehouse

You wake up in bed with surgery lamps shining down on you. You rise to find yourself in a large room with Little Sisters everywhere: Drawing pictures, playing with blocks, living some semblance of children's lives under the watchful eye of Dr. Tennenbaum, who speaks to you from a side room. You can see her through the glass, smoking and pacing the floor.

Dr. Tennenbaum set up this safehouse for the Little Sisters in the sewers underneath Olympus Heights. She removed most of the mental conditioning imposed on you by Fontaine's orders — but not all of it. Fontaine still has a leash on your brain; and Tennenbaum bids you to go to the apartment of Dr. Suchong in Mercury Suites to find answers to how to free you from Fontaine's mental control.

A Little Sister guides out of the safehouse and into the sewers. Fontaine tries to use the phrase Would you kindly to get you to kill yourself. When he discovers that control is gone, he activates another: Code Yellow, making your brain tell your heart to stop beating … in time. (The control slowly eats away at your health indicator.) Now you must race to find a way to free yourself from Fontaine's control before your heart does it for you.

code yellow

Code Yellow eats away at your maximum health, making each First Aid level shorter and shorter. You have to be very careful when confronting aggressors and Big Daddies until you find a cure for Code Yellow.

olympus heights

Olympus Heights has two major areas: The Central Station Bistro and Mercury Suites, with the tram line that connects them. There are sandbag barricades and barbed wire everywhere. And the aggressors are a lot tougher than in earlier levels. Each area has its own Little Sister and Big Daddy.

bistro

The Bistro is a heavily-guarded restaurant and surrounding courtyard. There is a Gatherers Garden on one side, the entrance to Apollo Square (guarded by a camera) on another, and the tram line that leads to Mercury Suites.

mercury suites

Mercury Suites is a four-tier area with apartments on three floors and the apartment of Frank Fontaine on the fifth. (There is a fourth tier, but it is inaccessible.) The civil war and its aftermath has hit this place hard. All the apartments except Fontaine's are in ruins. Assuming that the entrance to the Suites is the front, here are the apartments of the Suites.

ground tier

Yi Suchong

Inside the flooded office is a tape reporting the creation of Lot 192, the antidote to the mental control plasmid that shaped your mind. Evidently, Fontaine, so adept at doing unto others, feared being done to himself.

Anna Culpepper

The corpse of Cohen's rival is where security chief Sullivan left it, in the bathtub of a now-flooded bathroom.

Sander Cohen

If you did not kill him in Fort Frolic, Cohen greets his little moth. Cohen has locked himself in his upstairs bedroom, but exerts control over anyone hapless enough to enter the flat. There are two aggressors dancing to the music of the Rapture Requiem. Cohen warns you not to disturb them. But to use the P2P machine in Cohen's bedroom, you have no choice but to kill first them and then an angry Cohen. A bonus gift is the key to Cohen's muse box.

second tier

Bridgett Tennenbaum

The door is locked from the inside.

Unknown

You find a family slumped dead on couches, having committed suicide when it became obvious that all hope is lost. A cache of first aid and Eve in the bathroom is guarded by trap wires.

third tier

Unknown

A couple of squatting aggressors defend their turf from a hole in the ceiling over the front room. Massive barricades, trap wires and rubble make this flat difficult to navigate.

tennenbaum's flat — the back door

A guarded hole in the wall leads into the upper floor of Tennenbaum's flat. The place is wrecked, not by the war, but by Fontaine and his goons after Tennenbaum developed a conscience and disappeared. The sample of Lot 192 she stole from Suchong is not here. You could go downstairs and shoot out the lock, but there will be an angry aggressor waiting for you outside.

too nosy, just too nosy

Also on this tier, overlooking the entrance to the elevator, is the corpse and camera of a celebrity photographer who learned the combination to the elevator lock — and who paid for his knowledge with his life. The combination is 5744.

fontaine's flat

Riding the elevator brings you to the most luxurious apartment in Rapture. C'mon, folks, a Zen rock garden? I'm impressed. It is also a very heavily guarded garden, where you have to be clever to get past the guards and the camera. The rooms beyond are damaged only by a collapse here and there; otherwise the place looks like it did when Fontaine lived there.

Fontaine takes time off from mocking you over the radio to reminisce.

I'm gonna miss this place. Rapture was a candy store for a guy like me. Guys who thought they knew it all. Dames who thought they'd seen it all. Give me a smart mark over a dumb one every time.

He didn't think too much of his victims, either, according to the only tape he left in the flat.

These sad saps. They come to Rapture, thinking they're gonna be captains of industry. But they all forget that somebody's gotta scrub the toilets.

What an angle they gave me — I hand these mugs a cot and a bowl of soup, and they give me their lives. Who needs an army when I got Fontaine's Home for the Poor?

Fontaine's office holds the sample of Lot 192. Drink it: The mental conditioning is gone. The problem is that the insufficient dose makes a mess of your active plasmids. You cannot choose which one to use; a different plasmid activates every minute or so. (The good news is that you get to use the most potent plasmids that you have not gotten yet.) Tennenbaum advises you to go to the Artemis Suites section of Apollo Square, where Suchong ran a clinic as a sideline, for another dose of Lot 192.

to apollo square

All that is left is to leave Fontaine's flat, return to the Bistro, and go to Apollo Square.