DETECTIVE
by Alex Gough
The Guild
Spectrum 48
This is an interesting game, though suffers from no loading screen to help
you determine what you are to do. The game consists of finding particular
objects and giving them to particular characters. You can also ask
characters to tell you about the others. This sometimes provides hints about
what to do when you see them, or information that is valuable, as well as
information that may be misleading. You will need to talk to several
characters before you know the names of all of them. It would have made the
game more straightforward if you had a “cast of characters” at the
beginning. Maybe that came with the original game.
Hints:
To find out from characters about the others, SAY <the name or position of
the character>.
First explore your house. Take everything you can find.
Don’t just barge in to see the vicar. He is missing an item of clothing. It
is found in the area around your house.
You will (eventually) learn that:
Sith, the healer, is a romantic at heart. He also would like some herbs.
Rigarl, the lieutenant, needs religion.
Grimnas, the dwarf, needs some light. Make sure no one else is in the same
room when you take the object he needs.
Yes, you do need money to pass the toll collector.
To pass the scaredy-cat troll, SAY TROLL to the dwarf, and then SHOW the
troll a wriggly thing.
Flyleath, the elf, likes trinkets and jewellery. Can you make something for
him? And then give him something else as well.
Red herrings: the lieutenant’s stripes, the picture in Rigarl’s house, the
history book (though it is a hint of a kind).
Need to get into the cupboard? Visit the shed first. Both of the objects
there are needed, though not both in the same place.
Solution:
You begin on your front porch. INVENTORY (nothing), N, N (you see your
garden through an open window), E (you see a door), OPEN DOOR (it’s jammed),
W, JUMP WINDOW, S, EXAMINE DOG, TAKE COLLAR, N, W (in the shed), TAKE
CROWBAR, TAKE SPADE (you can’t carry any more), E, JUMP WINDOW, E, OPEN DOOR
WITH CROWBAR, DROP CROWBAR, E, TAKE PASS, EXAMINE PASS (to HQ), W, W, JUMP
WINDOW, W, TAKE SPADE, E, JUMP WINDOW, E, UP, N (you see Myra and a
necklace), TAKE NECKLACE, S, S, (you see Jarla, your daughter and a book),
EXAMINE BOOK (history of Ratch), N, DOWN, W, S, S, S, E, E, E, N, KNOCK, N
(you see the vicar), EXAMINE VICAR (he is missing an item of clothing), GIVE
COLLAR (he shows you a bible), TAKE BIBLE, EXAMINE BIBLE.
Go S, S, E, E, E, N, N (locked), S, W, W, W, W, S, S (you see Sith), SAY
JARLA (she is flirting with Frans), SAY FRANS (there is something suspicious
about him), N, N, W, W, W, W, W, W (you need a pass), SHOW PASS, W, S, E, E
(in your office), TAKE NOVEL, EXAMINE NOVEL (romantic), W, S (wander around
until you see Rigarl), SAY FRANS (he has some talent as a spell weaver), SAY
SITH (he is a romantic at heart), GIVE BIBLE (Rigarl tells you to put it in
his office and gives you the key), INVENTORY (you have an office key).
Wander around, if needed, until you are by Rigarl’s office), UNLOCK DOOR, E,
DROP BIBLE, EXAMINE DESK, OPEN DRAWER, TAKE HOUSE KEY, S, TAKE LETTER,
EXAMINE LETTER, N, W, N, W, N, E, E, E, E, N, N, N, E, UP, S.
SHOW LETTER (Jarla says she and Frans are in love), DROP LETTER, N, DOWN,
W, S, S, S, E, E, S, S, GIVE NOVEL (he says Flyleath likes woodwork and
jewellery too), N, N, E, E, E, E, N, UNLOCK DOOR, N, N, EXAMINE PICTURE, W,
TAKE KNIFE, EXAMINE KNIFE (for carving). E, S, UP, S (you see Daraf), SAY
FRANS (He works for his dad. He’s a slimy toad. I hear your daughter’s got
her eye on him), N, DOWN, S, S, DROP HOUSE, S, E (you see a leafless
branch), TAKE BRANCH, DROP SPADE, TAKE BRANCH, CARVE BRANCH (you make
something), INVENTORY ( a carving), DROP KNIFE, TAKE SPADE, E, S, N (you see
an elf), GIVE CARVING (he says it’s a marvellous trinket. He gives you
something), TAKE HERBS, GIVE NECKLACE (he tells you that two days ago he saw
someone bury something in the woods).
Go S, DIG (you find a chest), DROP SPADE, OPEN CHEST, TAKE NOTE, EXAMINE
NOTE (to Jarla from Sugar Plum. He has primed the doomsday machine and soon
Ratch will rule), W, W, N, W, W, W, W, S, S, GIVE HERBS (he shows you a
coin), TAKE COIN, N, N, W, W, W, W, W, SHOW PASS, W, S, E, S, E, SHOW NOTE
(Frans says he will undo things and to bring him the machine. The password
is Conquest. Watch out for Snort), DROP NOTE, W, DROP OFFICE, N, W, N, E, E,
E, E, E, E, E, E, S, S (ignore the candlesticks for now), S, S, S, DOWN,
TAKE WORM, UP, N, N, N, WAIT (until the sexton goes south), TAKE
CANDLESTICKS, N, N, E, E, S, S, S, S, S (you see the toll collector), S (you
need to buy a ticket) GIVE COIN, INVENTORY (you have a ticket), SHOW TICKET,
S, E, E (in the dwarf’s cave).
GIVE CANDLESTICKS (Grimnas tells you that two days ago, he saw Frans and
Jarla pass his cave), W, W, S, S (you see the troll), N, N, E, E, SAY TROLL
(Grimnas says trolls are cowards and to give it a shock), W, W, S, S, SHOW
WORM, S, TAKE WAND, EXAMINE WAND (good things to blast dragons with), N, W,
W, W, W, N, N (the guard wants a password), SAY CONQUEST, N, W, W, W (you
see Snort the dragon and the Doomsday machine), SAY FRANS (the dragon is
trying to sleep), SHOOT WAND (the dragon vaporizes and the wand disappears),
TAKE MACHINE, EXAMINE MACHINE (magical aura), E, E, E, S, S, E, E, E, E, N,
N, N, N, N, N, N, N, W, W, W, W, W, W, W, W, W, SHOW PASS, W, S, E, S, E,
GIVE MACHINE (Frans deactivates it. He and Jarla are lead away, and you are
the hero.) You are finished.
Terri Sheehan
2010-08-24
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