i have only just started playing this game but when i am trying to find the crystal i keep running out of time. Can anyone help me. Bob

Just keep trying, to get to know the path and keep at it. It's much easier than you (seem to) think. Follow Xana's directional suggestions.

Also take the Stamina Skill if you didnt, it is ALWAYS usefull, for all "classes".

I have the same problem. I run out of time.
I cannot jump through the window to follow the ghoul, ledge is too high up.

So I go down the rope and run outside through the garden but whilst fighting the guards time is up....

Xanas directions seem pretty vague, it says follow crystal picture but that is REALLY vague

Anyway by the time game tells you you finished the one quest and now have to follow the ghoul, that all takes sooooo long that ghoul is far far ahead

Discouraging is that so early in the game, already stuck and it is keep trying over and over (done this same part for more than an hour now) or just give up on the game already.

I once again agree with you, Serpenta! I've tried countless times and died as many. Frustration seems to be a large part of this game!

I have managed it, try this

http://youtube.com/watch?v=P36lZziwzM4&feature=related

It helped me on the spots where I did not know where to go etc. without it I would have had to give up on the game

HOly ****... thats an old thread you bumped here...

And now, VenomKing, its April 2008 and some of us have just started the game. We are finding the same problem as the players in Feb. 2007 did! OMG!