OLD FATHER TIME (Bug-Byte)
Solution by: Jacob Gunness
(You begin in a clearing in the forest. This first part takes place
in a forest with lots and lots of nearly-identical locations, so
using the map should help you a great deal)
5xE, S, S, REMOVE LEAVES, GET ROD, S, Wx4, REMOVE LEAVES (you find
the following rhyme: "If you're aiming for the top, not an object you
must drop"), W, W, N, CLIMB TREE (there's a message here: "To return
the hour glass to old father time, you must not be afraid to enter
the mine"), W, Nx6, REMOVE LEAVES, GET COINS (gold ones), S, Ex4,
READ SIGN ("Your destiny lies to the east"), E, E, REMOVE LEAVES
(another rhyme: "To pass through a door your need a key, so go east
in the cavern and dig for 3"), E (a large boulder blocks the entrance
to the cave), LEVER BOULDER WITH ROD (you have entered the cave and
there's no way out again).
E, DIG ROD x 3 (you find a key), GET KEY, W, OPEN DOOR WITH KEY, GET
KEY (or you'll lose 10 pts.), N, N, W, DIG ROD (you find the word
"Equilibrium"), LOOK (you've also uncovered a lamp), GET LAMP, E, ON
LAMP, E (you see the letter 'e' illuminated by the lamp), Sx5 (and
'g', 'm', 'o' and 'a' – this spells "omega"), S,
W, LOOK (in the
light from the lamp, you see something), GET SOMETHING, I (it's a
mirror), EXAMINE MIRROR ("After the genie who you must pay you'll
find Medusa who you must kill), E, N, N, N, EQUILIBRIUM (you may now
pass through the beam of light), E (the mirror reflects the light),
OMEGA (the room starts spinning and you wind up in a corridor)
OFF LAMP (otherwise your lamp will be stolen by moths), WAVE ROD
(this renders you invisible, keeping you safe from 'Terry the
Troglodyte' (!) who roams the area), Ex5, ON LAMP (or the wizard will
kill you), N (you sense magic), RUB LAMP (a genie appears), PAY GENIE
(he hands you the staff of power), SE, SE (you see a captured dwarf),
BREAK MIRROR (the staff absorbs the curse placed on the dwarf, who
hands you a ring), NW, E, JUMP (the staff slows down your descent and
you land safely)
S, GET SWORD, NE, NE (you must carry the mirror here or Medusa's gaze
will turn you to stone), SLAY MEDUSA WITH SWORD, SLAY SERPENTS WITH
SWORD (or they will kill you), N, WAITx8 (this opens an exit to the
northeast), NE, OPEN CHEST WITH KEY (inside lies the hourglass. At
this point you should be carrying eight items: rod, coins, key, lamp,
mirror, staff, ring and sword), DROP every item but the staff INTO
CHEST, GET HOUR GLASS (an exit opens to the north), N (if you've
dropped all the necessary items into the chest, you arrive at the
time gate, where you are greeted by Father Time. Congratulations!)
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