THE HAUNTING
Written by Jason Nicholls, Julie Nicholls, Judith Wood and Brent Ash
(Delta 3 Software)
Walk Through by Dorothy Millard (Spectrum Version)
Scenario
You must spend the night in a haunted house whose first owner was St. Oswald who was later made a
saint. He died in the house of a sudden heart attack and that is when the house started its
notoriety. The house was built over a graveyard which was believed by witches to be the gateway to
hell.
Notes
1. This a later version of Daemon by the same authors, with minor differences.
2. You need to conclude the game before midnight, as just after midnight you will fall asleep when
weariness overcomes you, and wake the next morning to see your friend Brent standing over you.
3. Watch the messages carefully, as randomly you will drop the crucifix and the dagger. If this
occurs, simply pick them up again.
Walk Through
(Start standing before Damned House), SE (mist shrouded courtyard), EXAMINE FENCE (notice a loose
steel bar), PULL BAR (it moves slightly), PULL BAR (keep pulling until eventually it gives way), GET
BAR, W, EXAMINE GATE, NE (before door), EXAMINE DOOR (says "Do not enter"), OPEN DOOR, N
(door slams shut behind you and you find yourself in the entrance hall), EXAMINE CLOCK (the hands of
the grandfather clock have stopped at midnight), HIT GLASS (glass face breaks and reveals a scroll),
GET SCROLL, READ SCROLL ("Risak Graven" is written on it), DROP SCROLL, EXAMINE
CHANDELIER, W (lounge), EXAMINE FIREPLACE, EXAMINE ASHES (discover a parchment), GET PARCHMENT, READ
PARCHMENT ("Kumar Narak Zanuk" is written on it), DROP PARCHMENT, N (dining room), E, E
(study), EXAMINE MIRROR (instead of your reflection you see a mirror of blood), PUSH MIRROR (not
really there!), FEEL IN MIRROR (you pull out a crucifix), EXAMINE CRUCIFIX, W, S.
U (stairs), N, E (bedroom), EXAMINE PANELING (see button), PUSH BUTTON (reveals a hidden doorway),
GO DOORWAY (secret room), EXAMINE TABLE (see notebook), GET NOTEBOOK, READ NOTEBOOK (diary), DROP
NOTEBOOK, EXAMINE ODDIMENTS, EXAMINE CEILING (from a rusty nail hangs a pendant), GET PENDANT (hangs
just out of reach), CLIMB TABLE (it collapses in a heap), JUMP (you dislodge the pendant), GET
PENDANT, EXAMINE PENDANT, OPEN PENDANT (Professor Wells will help you - note this only works when
not wearing the pendant), WEAR PENDANT (allows you to carry more), GO DOORWAY (back to bedroom), W,
W, S (imposing bedroom), EXAMINE PICTURE (of a smiling woman sitting in a rocking chair), N, W
(bathroom), EXAMINE SIGN (reads "One for the Road"), EXAMINE BATH (find an eye shaped
ruby), GET RUBY, EXAMINE RUBY, E, E, U (attic where you see a closed red door), EXAMINE DOOR
(painted in blood), OPEN DOOR, E (forgotten recess), GET CLOAK, EXAMINE CLOAK, WEAR CLOAK, W, D, S,
D (back to entrance hall).
W, NW (kitchen), EXAMINE FOOD (moldy), EXAMINE FLOOR (discover a trapdoor), OPEN TRAPDOOR (reveals
steps leading down to a cellar), D (steps to cellar), W, EXAMINE GARGOYLE (it's face is set in
a grin), EXAMINE GRIN (in it's mount is a long sharp fang), PULL FANG (part of the cellar wall
moves aside), DROP BAR, DROP CRUCIFIX (for later), GO HOLE (to spring garden), W (centre of garden
where there is a beautiful fountain), EXAMINE FOUNTAIN, EXAMINE WATER (something pushes you back),
EXAMINE ANGELS (all the heads are turned towards you), EXAMINE GARDEN (a hazy light plays across the
rows of beautiful flowers), EXAMINE FLOWERS (amongst them grows a devil's hoof), GET HOOF,
EXAMINE HOOF, N, EXAMINE FLOWERS (see a single witchazel), GET WITCHAZEL, EXAMINE WITCHAZEL, SW
(sunny garden by wall), EXAMINE WALL, LOOK (now see a hazy doorway in the garden wall), GO DOORWAY
(secret rose garden), EXAMINE CIRCLE (inside is a single black rose), HOLD BREATH (otherwise you are
overcome by the red roses), GET BLACK ROSE (you grab it and find yourself back outside), E (centre
of garden), S, EXAMINE FLOWERS (see a lilycross growing), GET LILYCROSS, EXAMINE LILYCROSS, NE, GO
HOLE (back to cellar).
SE (arch), DROP WITCHAZEL, DROP LILYCROSS, DROP DEVIL'S HOOF, DROP BLACK ROSE, NE, U, N
(pantry), EXAMINE FLOOR (find some salt), GET SALT, EXAMINE SALT, S, D, W, GET CRUCIFIX, GET BAR, SE
(a huge grotesque gargoyle guards the archway), EXAMINE GARGOYLE (lifelike and holding a stone club
- note if you try to pass you will be clubbed to death), EXAMINE ARCH (a wall of fire burns behind
it), THROW SALT AT GARGOYLE (witchazel, lilycross, devil's hoof and black rose must be present
- a small crack appears on it's leg, spreads over the gargoyle's body and it falls into
hundreds of little pieces), GO ARCH (you jump through the flames to a foggy lane).
EXAMINE HOUSES (rubble), NW (ruined tavern), EXAMINE TAVERN, W, W (bleak windswept moor), N (must be
wearing the cloak - through the horror to outside church), EXAMINE CARVINGS, EXAMINE ARCH, N (inside
church), EXAMINE WINDOW, EXAMINE COFFIN, LEVER LID (using iron bar - collapses in a pile of rubble),
DROP BAR, EXAMINE RUBBLE (find a dagger and a skull), GET DAGGER, EXAMINE DAGGER, GET SKULL, EXAMINE
SKULL (the floor gives way beneath you and you find yourself back in the cellar), NE, U, SE, E
(entrance hall), U, N.
U (attic), W, DROP SKULL, WAIT (until you see shadows), EXAMINE SHADOWS, SAY "RISAK
GRAVEN" (you say the words on the parchment... the skull rises into the air and St. Oswald
steps from a pillar of light and deals with the stone gargoyle, which emerged from the shadows, by
throwing it through the window), E (make sure you are still carrying the dagger as randomly you
automatically drop it), E (recess where you now see a dark passage), GO PASSAGE (wide gaping pit,
the Gateway to Hell... Lucifer climbs out of the pit), EXAMINE PIT, SAY 'KUMAR NARAK
ZANUK" (the devil-creature wails in pain), CUT HAND (using dagger - you fall into the pit but
St. Oswald saves you... you are back in the recess), W, D, S, D (entrance hall), OPEN DOOR, S, SW
(gates which open and you meet your friend who asks if anything unnatural happened and you reply
that it was nothing you couldn't handle!)
CONGRATULATIONS
Taken from Dorothy Irene's site: http://dorothyirene.fateback.com/
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