I'm at the part of the game were i have to pull the little lever thinger to make the dummy come down for the rapax assaign in marten's bluff. but i can't "use" the lever! when i "use" the console to make the thing squish, the dummy popps down, but then goes right back up again. any help would be much appreciated!

the lever for the dummy is not on the console.
Look to the left of it, there's a sign pointing to the lever that makes the dummy dangle.

hahaha, this took me for ever to work out... after consulting a playguide, I was convinced that I had reached a critical game bug when it stated "after talking to to Z'ant, go back up the lift, and the dummy should be hanging there"

Long story short, after a good 25 mins of going back between Z'ant, the squish-room, the front of the fort and many reloads, I finally noticed that lever with a curious rapax-shaped figure on it. Serves me right for consulting a play guide I guess :S

yes i see the lever, but i can't "use" it! any ideas?

The picture is not the lever. Just reach for the lever next to the picture and pull it when your cursor becomes a hand.

yes yes i understand that but my cursor wo't become a hand! i've moved my cursor all over the lever, and it won't work!

Yeah - I remember having some issues with that lever, too. I think it was solved by moving around and trying various angles until I got it. Very annoying, as I remember. One thing I have found useful for tricky things that you need to get with the hand is getting very close and looking down toward the item. I swear, they make the piles of bullet stones inientionally hard to grab, just to make your party stand around in the road, fumbling over stones with their heads down, while the juggernauts attack from the flank.

Hmmm..... from memory, the lever only becomes 'active' once you receive the quest from Z'ant. Might seem a little obvious, but have you checked your journal to see if he has he given you the quest yet?

Other than that, I have found the little hand icons to be quite erratic in this game. Often you can walk right up to a door, only to have your hand icon disappear. It only re-appears once you move back a little, I have no idea why but it would seem getting too close stops the hand from working. Maybe you should try moving around a little, to make sure you are precisely the right distance.

good luck.

thx for the suggestions that's a good point about how pixil picky this game can be!

no, Hayaku, it is not necessary to have spoken with Z'ant at all before the lever works.