Welcome back to the second part of this Grim Fandango walkthrough. Last time Manny Calavera narrowly escaped El Marrow and the dark machinations of the Department of Death with the help of Salvador Limones, the charismatic leader of the Lost Souls Alliance. Salvador led him through a secret underground tunnel system to the outskirts of the Petrified Forest, where Manny hopes to find Meche Colomar, a virtuous soul and maybe his only chance to leave the Eighth Underworld for good.
The Petrified Forest
Manny reaches the forest and takes a look back at the skyline of El Marrow in the distance. Go right to find a very upset Glottis at the forest clearing next to a road sign. He got fired from his job for helping Manny and is so distressed about it that he tears out his heart and throws it away. The heart is stolen by a bunch of demonic spiders.
Manny needs to find Glottis' heart. Take the path behind the big orange elemental to get to the spider nest. Behind the spiderweb with the heart is a pile of bones. Take four of them. Throw one at the spiderweb and use your scythe with it. The web won't tear and instead acts like a catapult that throws Glottis' heart back to the clearing. Collect it and save Glottis.
Glottis brought the Bone Wagon with him when he was fired. Use it to drive to the tree farm. You find a big pump there that is attached to a petrified tree. It drains the tree and pumps its marrow into a storage tank. Ask Glottis about the tree farm to get the achievement "The marrow of these trees, Manny..." Glottis and Manny need to dismantle the mechanical parts on the tree to get shock absorbers for the Bone Wagon. Without them you won't be able to cross the rocky path to the fire beaver(1) dam.
Use the lever on the pump to stop the rotating wheel above the tree. Glottis will climb it to get the parts, but it will only work if Manny uses the wheelbarrow to destabilize the tree. Position the wheelbarrow on the four connecting lines on the floor so that the stabilizers on the tree run parallel on each side. With Glottis on top of the tree this will be enough to destroy it. Glottis then attaches the shock absorbers to the Bone Wagon.
Drive back to the clearing and take the road sign with you. Walk to the left. There is a big forest clearing with multiple pathways. You can ignore all of them. Position the road sign somewhere and follow the direction of the twisting sign (always take the sign with you until it points down to the floor). Do this until you find the hidden passageway that leads underground. Go down to the cave. On the right you see a sign with a key. Shake the sign to get the key.
Go back to the Bone Wagon and take the rocky path from the central clearing to reach the barricades. Got through the door to the fire beaver dam. Manny can't cross it yet, but he can try to chase the beavers away. There is a small passage to the left that leads to the shore of the tarry lake. Throw one of the bones from the spider nest into the lake and use the fire extinguisher from the server room in the D.O.D to quench the flames of the beaver. Do this three times to get rid of all the beavers.
Go back to the shoddy gate and use the key to open the lock on the left. Now Manny and Glottis can drive over the dam with the Bone Wagon.
Arrival in Rubacava
Manny and Glottis reach Rubacava, a small and sombre coastal town by the Sea of Lament, the great ocean stretching across the Eighth Underworld. Apparently all souls must come to Rubacava to book passage in a ship for Puerto Zapato. Manny is unsure if Meche is here already, so he explores the surrounding area. At the top of the stairs is the Rub-A-Mat Café where Manny meets a familiar face, Celso Flores. The unfortunate soul barely made it through the Petrified Forest, but is now mopping the floors at the Café while he waits for his beloved (and deceased) wife.
Talk to Celso about anything and everything to get the "We only have one mop." achievement. Help him find his wife. Celso will give Manny a photo of her.
Go outside again and throw Manny off the foggy cliff. The dockmaster Velasco will save Manny from drowning and then walk off to admire the Bone Wagon. Ask him about his eyepatch to get the achievement "Used to scream like a banshee...". And show him the photo of Celsos wife. Velasco will tell Manny that she already left with another man. He gives you a logbook as prove and also tells you about his long lost ship the "S.S. Lamancha". Remember her.
Return to Celso and give him the logbook. Unwilling to give up on his wife, Celso rushes after her and leaves Manny with his mop at the Rub-A-Mat Café. This will get you the "Year 1" achievement.
Sombre music is playing as the camera zooms out over the mopping Manny and the mists of the small port town of Rubacava.
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Notes
- Which is funny, because beavers can secure forests from being burned down, or at least provide refuge from the flames, as a new study from an ecohydrologist at California State University Channel Islands concludes.
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