Legend of the Lost Kingdom
by Dan B Nielsen, 1987
Solution by David Lodge and Terri Sheehan
Score: 93
Before I start describing the solution, this adventure differs from most
normal ones by not describing the exits in the room description, instead it
identifies some scenery and only displays the exits if you use the EXITS
command.
Your goal is unstated; but you will need to slay dangers to the kingdom and
return some vital objects. You will need to kill the ghost and the zombie,
these move randomly around the map (which is annoying). If, whilst playing
the game, and you come across the above and have the special weapon for
killing them, just KILL GHOST or KILL ZOMBIE. The weapons needed are:
GHOST KNIFE
ZOMBIE DAGGER
DARKLORD SWORD (though we're not going to kill him this way)
Each creature has a certain amount of strength, as do you. You can check
your strength with the STRENGTH command. This means that you'll need to
repeat the KILL command several times before the creature dies.
We start in the corner of the lost kingdom. GET the LAMP and head E and S.
GET the STONES and head E, E, E and S. At this point the rooms following
may become dark, it seems to be random when it happens. If the room becomes
dark then just LIGHT LAMP WITH STONES.
GET the KNIFE (now if you meet the ghost you can KILL it) and carry on E,
S, S, W. GET the ESCape spell (it'll make things quicker later) and head
back E, N, E and GET the KILl spell. Head E, S, S, W, S to an open place in
the mountains. Here we notice one of the "quirks" in the game: to win, you
need to pick up the sword and replace it here. As we don't actually need to
use it, we're just going to get it and drop it.
First DRINK WATER to give you the strength to GET SWORD and DROP SWORD. Now
head all the way back to the path between the prohour mountains: N, E, N,
N, W, N, N, W, N, W, W, W.
Carry on moving down the southerly route: S, S, W, S, S, E, E. We can see a
sign here, if we EXAMINE SIGN then we see it points south. GET the SIGN
(don't worry about why, we need to do it), it disappears, but that's not
important. Head S, E, S, S to outside a hut. Enter the hut by going W and
GET KEY.
Head out: E, E, N and GET DAGGER (now if we meet the zombie we can kill
it). Now go S, E, S and GET the FireBOlt spell (not really needed, but we
may as well get everything).
Go N, W, W, S, S, S to meet the Darklord. Normally you should use the sword
to kill him; but this'll take a lot of strength and required a trip back to
drop off the sword. So, we'll be lazy and CAST KIL to slay him instantly.
GO IN to the cave and GET SCROLL, then GO OUT.
Now we need to hunt down the zombie and ghost (if we haven't already killed
them). They could be anywhere on the map, so we just need to move around
the map until we see them. Note, do not go S from the "West Side of the
Sump" as this will instantly kill you.
Once you have found and killed the creatures you will get a message about
nearly completing the adventure. Once you have this, just CAST ESC to
finish.
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