3 questions :)

[Deafknight]

I didnt manage to open the crystal mines, nor the pyramid, but i've done everything else, except for the "follow the leader room"
so,

1. "follow the leader room" with the blades and buttons : how do you get the gem?
2. C. mines : how to enter them?
3. pyramid : what object is needed?

As a final question, i'd like some general area difficulty, because i did ruins --> archives --> bog --> catacombs --> sewer --> hamlet --> ?
obviously, i'd have better saved archives for the last, and i dunno for mines and pyramid.

So far, i did three temples (earth, fire, air)

[Unkillable Cat]

1. First you have to find the leader, then you need to find out why you have to follow him. (You may need to mouselook for this one.)

2. The clue says "Follow the path of the snail". How do snails go about doing things?

3. You need an item that mentions, in its description, a recognizable feature of the pyramid and its immediate surroundings.

[Deafknight]

1. if i mouselook, i see four buttons. but clicking them achieves nothing?
i found a secret with a wizard hat, thou.

2. i cooked the snails and ate them with my frog legs (i'm french)
seriously, no idea slow? you wait after each plate? you wait in the poison?

3. i have only a map which COULD have a pyramid drawing on it.
barring that, nothing, and i did all the bog area...

[Ixnatifual]

3.

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Did you also solve everything in the herder lair beneath the swamp?

[3mortis]

1. "follow the leader room" with the blades and buttons : how do you get the gem?
2. C. mines : how to enter them?
3. pyramid : what object is needed?

read only if you dont want to heave surprise, really spoiler

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1. you heave to click buttons in right order, just follow the spikes, it heave short pause so you can see when its start
2.just wait few sec on every tile
3.snake staff from dungeon in bog, shoot in piramid door

[Deafknight]

thanks a lot! while i'd have guessed for the snail, the other two had me stumped

mines or pyramid first?

[Ixnatifual]

I suggest the pyramid first. The reason isn't too spoilerish, but just in case:

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The monsters in the mines are far tougher than the ones in the pyramid. It almost seems like you're supposed to go to the pyramid very early, but at least for me I got the lightning bolt scroll very late, so I couldn't solve the pyramid puzzle until very late in the game.

[3mortis]

there is pyramid puzzle including lightning bolt or you mean in mines?

[Ixnatifual]

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I don't know if it's the same each time, but I had to make a lightning bolt to solve the puzzle that gave me the serpent staff needed to enter the pyramid. I didn't find the lightning bolt scroll until much later in the game, so the pyramid was one of the last places I visited, and the monsters there died very fast and couldn't really injure me.

[3mortis]

i find this without scrol ;p just randomly put stones on tiles
after beating grimmrock 1 etc it isnt so hard to make few try i invent spell