ACORN’S QUEST
Written by W. A. Hackett
Walk Through by Dorothy Millard (Spectrum Version)
Note:
Red Herrings - Seaweed and Brass Key.
Walk Through
(Start on the hillside), INVENTORY (carrying water bottle), N, E, E, (hillside), GET SCYTHE, W, W, N
(to cave entrance), N, N (to large cave), N, N, N, W (into a maze of corridors), N, W, S, W (to an
earthy cave), CUT ROOTS (using the scythe), GET ROOTS, N (to cave mouth), W (to sandy beach), N, E
(sand dunes), CUT REEDS (using the scythe), GET REEDS, DROP SCYTHE, BIND REEDS (with the roots),
INVENTORY (you now have a bundle of reeds), N, W (to sandy beach - ignore the seaweed), S, S, E, S,
E (back to maze of corridors), S, E (to north/south passage), S, E (into a low cave), GET ROPE, W,
S, S, E, E (limestone cave where water drips), FILL BOTTLE (with water), E (carboniferous cave with
pools of hot tar and pitch), SOAK REEDS (in the hot tar and pitch), INVENTORY (you now have an unlit
torch), W, N (to wide cave), GET SPADE, S, W, N (volcanic cave containing a gas geyser), LIGHT
TORCH, S, W, W (dark sandstone cave where a message is carved in the soft rock).
W, W, (dark cave), GET STONE, WET STONE (with water), INVENTORY (now have a whetstone), DROP BOTTLE,
E, E, N (low musty passage), N, W (dusty passage), DIG DUST (you uncover a rusty dagger), DROP
SPADE, GET DAGGER, SHARPEN DAGGER (on the whetstone), DROP STONE, W (musty passage), GET BAR
(steel), E, E, S (back to cave), E, E, E, N (wide cave), BEND BAR, TIE ROPE, INVENTORY (now have a
grapnel with 30 ft. of rope attached), S, W, W, S, S, S (narrow valley), W, W (hillside), KILL GOAT
(using the dagger), DROP DAGGER, GET GOAT, E, E, N (cave entrance), N, N, N, N, N, N (southern edge
of deep fissure), THROW ROPE (it spans the chasm), CROSS ROPE (to northern edge of fissure), N
(inner chamber by a rock - remember the message), OPEN EMASES (sesame backwards - now see a low
doorway), ENTER DOORWAY (to low tunnel).
N (high vaulted cavern), W, S (low cave), GET CROWBAR, N, E, E (dry dark cave - leave the brass
key), W, S, E (into dragon’s lair where you meet a large green dragon), FEED DRAGON (with the goat
- the dragon falls asleep), CLIMB DRAGON (to small upper chamber), W (into cosy cave), GET SPIKE, E,
E (you see the vault door but there is no way in from here), W, S (to star chamber where a curious
monkey asks if you are enjoying the adventure), YES (he steps aside), S (into large high cavern with
walls covered with cracks and fissures), HAMMER SPIKE (now see a steel piton in the wall), DROP
CROWBAR, U (to a narrow east/west passage), E ( this east/west passage has a small hole low down to
the north), DROP TORCH, CRAWL (note you cannot carry anything - you are in a small crawlway), N, N
(you see a hole in the floor), D (into vault), GET CHALICE (of Hope), RUB CHALICE (it sparkles), U,
S, S, S, GET TORCH, W, D, W (to side cave), GET CHOCS (doggy), GET WOOD, MAKE CROSS, E, E, E (must
be carrying cross to pass the vampire bats), E (to outer cave).
S (cave entrance), S (edge of thick forest), S (primeval forest), S, W, W, N (you meet a large
hungry timber-wolf), FEED WOLF (with the chocs - he still looks at you hungrily so don’t hang
around), S, CLIMB TREE, D, W (to edge of forest), W (scrubland), W, W (sand dunes), W (to sandy
beach where the seaweed is), S, S, E, S, E (to maze of corridors), S, E (north/south passage), S, S,
S, S, S, S, S (to hillside where you started and the velvet lined chalice box is), PLACE CHALICE IN
BOX.
CONGRATULATIONS
You have successfully completed your appointed task.
