So you're stuck, or you just can't be bothered to solve the clues for yourself? Well, you've come to the right place.
| read the scroll | |
| I seek the grail | |
| go north | |
| wade across the stream | you get washed downstream |
| (x-nomatch) | you arrive downstream at the flashlight clearing |
| pick up the flashlight | you'll need it to kill the vampire. |
| go east | |
| carry on | The vampire attacks but is killed by the light from the flashlight |
| (x-nomatch) | you find yourself back in the first clearing |
| go south | to the sundial |
| read the plaque | |
| wait | |
| take the gnomon from the sundial | it has a key on the end. |
| go north | back to the first clearing |
| go east | to the gate |
| unlock the gate | |
| go east | into the tunnel |
| put the flashlight on the elevator platform | its plutonium power pack will explode halfway down the shaft, and the subsequent rockfall opens a way out |
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you can't go down any of the paths till you solve the riddle on the scroll.
The solution is "grail" (spelt out in the riddle, and "holy grail" is an
anagram of "hail glory".) There are other possible solutions to the riddle (ooail, goail, orail, ooaii, goaii, oraii, graii, ooain, goain, orain, grain, ooaia, goaia, oraia, graia,) but you will die if you give any of them. |
| Do not go west from the first clearing without the flashlight, or the vampire will kill you. And you can't get the flashlight without being washed down the stream from the north. |
| Do not drop,or break or attempt to open the flashlight at any time, or its plutonium power pack will explode, and you will die. |
| At the flashlight clearing, don't go back into the river or you'll drown. |
| Regarding the verse on the plaque on the sundial - patience is, of course, the virtue referred to. The gnomon cannot be detached from the sundial until the end of the hour, so you must wait here until the hour ends. If you've read the plaque before, you can just type "wait", and it will goto the end of the hour when the gnomon unlocks. |
| Don't make any detours after you've taken the gnomon, but go straight to the gate and unlock it, otherwise the gnomonless sundial turns time backwards to the beginning of the hour, and you'll find yourself back at the start of the game. |
| Don't get on the elevator platform in the mine - the radiation will kill you. |
| Don't throw the flashlight into the mine shaft - it will fall too far before it explodes, and won't cause the rockfall you need to get out. |
| There are a couple of xnomatches in the game where user input is ignored, so it doesn't matter what you enter. But it is important not to repeat yourself on these (or while waiting for the sundial to unlock,) or the AIEngine will trigger a "you're repeating yourself" response and crash you out of the game. I'm still trying to work on 'robusticizing' these out. |
You want help with level 2? You'll have to do without cheats. But there
are a few hints 
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