If it's the room I think of, then the answer is very non-obvious: You're supposed to jump into the pool in the room with Loki yourself and get transformed.

That's the room I want to get to, but unfortunately cannot. The problem is that you can't even get into the room Loki is in as the entryway is all barred up.

Unfortunately Rune does not allow the player to restart a map, But you can use the console to force the game loading any map you want

Included the one you are already in

I am pasting here how to activate the console for the game, plus the level loading command, didn't make those, merely found them around

As an extra note, i can say that one of the final level for the game seems to be bugged in Rune classic, and when a certain empowered unded try to bring down a wall with a giant mace, the game freeze and without the console i was unable to proceed

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Note: This procedure involves editing a game file; create a backup copy of the file before proceeding. Use a text editor to edit the "user.ini" file in the game folder.

Search for the "G=" and "T=" entries and change them to "G=God" and "T=CheatPlease".

Begin a game, press T to enable cheat mode, then if you want press G to enable God mode. Note: The keys
must be pressed again after each new level is started. It's possible to bind any key to any command, G for God Mode is just an example

All Possible Commands:

Effect - Command

Invisible to enemies - invisible /// Doesn't seems to work
Kill all enemies - killpawns
Infinite air when underwater - amphibious
Flight mode - fly
No clipping mode - ghost /// No Clip Mode, Script are not triggering while under this effect
Disable flight and no clipping modes - walk
Spawn rune - summon runeofpower /// Restore All Runic Power, Extend Max Power
First person view - behindview 0
Disable all non-player characters - playersonly
Toggle full screen mode - togglefullscreen
Spawn indicated item - summon [item name]
Level select - leveltravel or open [map name]
Advance to level with acquired items - switchcooplevel [map name]


Item names

Use one of the following values with the "summon [item name]" code to spawn the
corresponding item:

VikingShortSword
VikingBroadSword
VikingShield
VikingShieldCross
GoblinAxe
GoblinShield
DwarfBattleSword
DwarfBattleAxe
DwarfBattleHammer
DwarfWorkSword
DwarfWorkHammer
DwarfBattleShield
RuneOfPower
RuneOfPowerRefill
RuneOfHealth
RuneOfStrength
MagicShield
DarkShield
RustyMace
RomanSword
SigurdAxe
HandAxe
Torch


Map names

Use one of the following values with the "leveltravel [map name]" or "open [map name]"
or "switchcooplevel [map name]" codes to advance to the corresponding level or view the
indicated FMV sequence:

intro (introduction sequence)
ragnarvillage (opening sequence)
ragnarvillage2
sailingship (intermission sequence)
sinkingship
sinkingship2
deepunder1odin
deepunder1odinbv
deepunder3
deepunder4
hel1
hel1a
hel1a2
hel1b
hell2end
hel3a
hel3b
hellift
goblin1
goblin2
trialpit
beetlefly (intermission sequence)
thorapproach
thor1
thormap3
thormap4a
thormap4b
thormap5a
thormap5b
thormap6loki
mountain1
mountain2
dwarftrans
dwarf1wwheel
dwarfmap2
dwarfmap3a
dwarfmap3b
dwarfmap5a
dwarfmap5b
dwarfmap6darkdwarf
loki1
loki1a
lokimaze
loki2
loki3a
loki3b
villageruin
asgard (ending sequence)

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Hopefully this will help, you should be able to restart the map, or load it blank and the give yourself the missing weapons

Thanks to OP & replies, probably never have finished the game w/o this thread. Love the game & thanks to GoG for getting it up here as well!

Played Rune just after release but I don't think this was the scenario I faced back then. I certainly don't remember any portals you could destroy as in above long post, & I didn't get any this time either. What I did get when crossing into the room was an elite like the one you get before the door is opened plus several zombie types that already turned or were in the process - I don't remember this from original.

So no beheading could commence 'til they were dispatched which pretty much requires some rune power or leaving the room. I'm wondering if this is what was intended? My next map after the 'turning' is pretty badly bugged - reloading a save thru that whole map results in a return to the health bar & rune power status of the very beginning of that map. Had to run the whole map w/o saving if I wanted to keep the runes & health I picked up along the way, which took me a bit. lol

Which, of course, also makes me suspect that something's wrong with the Trickster's Chamber map as well.

This question has'nt been answeared properly yet, so I'll go ahead and revive this issue for others to see.

This is intended. In the area you're describing, Zombies will continually jump into sludge and turn into unarmed Sarks. There are atleast a couple armed ones in the room aswell. This large horde keeps growing, and what you have to do is to kill a whole bunch of them. For each Sark you kill, a column is retracted. Eventually you have killed enough to enter Loki's main chamber, and the collumns will close behind you and you're through.

I had this too. As stated by another reply, you have to kill enough undead in order to remove the bars. My tactic was to draw them out of the room and take them to a corridor to kill them. Problem is that the game stops generating them if you do this before you have enough killed to remove those bars. It;s a tough gig but you have to kill them IN the room where they are generated (fortunately, the berserk meter helps out a lot here).

Oh, wow, I gave up on this almost 7 years ago, and didn't play the game anymore. Now that I see this thread have revived in the past couple of years, I think I'll give the game a go again and see if I can get past the problem I ran into previously. Thanks for the follow-ups over the past couple of years.

This was my problem also, as you said I needed to stay in the room long enough for it to generate enough undead for me to eliminate, which is not easy at all, but finally persevered and the bars finally vanished. Only wish I knew why that would cause it to have stopped generating undead if you left the room too early, but got past it around 7 years later with a new run through, which I've thoroughly enjoyed.