Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz (Zork_Zero.txt)

Zork Zero (Infocom)
Written by: Unknown

Prologue
You start as a servant in the court of Dimwit Flathead. Go where you're told until Megaboz
arrives and
everyone starts diving under the tables. Do likewise. After the fireball, stand up and get the
parchment.
In a few moves everything will fade and you will start the real game, 94 years later.
For Your Amusement:
Examine the tables in the Banquet Hall.
Main Area of Castle
You begin in the Great Hall. You are the descendant of the servant character in the prologue. You
can
examine the parchment and calendar if you like, but they refer to game packaging items used for copy

protection, so the in-game items are not necessary. The parchment tells you what you have to do to
break the curse Megaboz cast on the Flatheads and the GUE and complete the game: collect 24 items
that belonged to the 12 Flatheads (2 items each), throw them into the cauldron, and speak the magic
word.
The jester will appear at random throughout the game, as well as in several set locations. Sometimes
he
just appears and says something bizarre. He can turn you into an alligator, which will cause you to
drop
everything you are carrying or wearing. When you have "a bit of difficulty breathing"
he's put a rubber
clown nose on you (remove it and drop it). In the castle, he can make you get picked up by a bat and

carried to an outdoor castle location, or make a bedbug appear (sing a lullaby to make the
bedbug fall asleep). You need to get three things from the jester: a slate, which he will give you;
a
scroll, which he drops and you must pick up; and a comic strip, which will blow by a turn or two
after
he says "see you in the funny papers." You can actually ignore the scroll, because it
doesn't change
from game to game. Read the slate and comic strip and drop them after making note of what they say.
Go up onto the Balcony, and south. Examine the rebus. Throughout the story we'll be
encountering
key-shaped buttons that will remove the animals here. Go south into the Closet. Press the button on
the
wall and take the bag of food. Go north twice and down into the Great Hall, then south twice into
the
Throne Room. Take the sceptre. Sit on the throne and snap your fingers. Stand, go south, and get the

candle. Go south, west, and up twice. Take the key. The solution to the jester's riddle is Y.
Go west and
south. Take the glove and cloak and wear the glove. Go north, east, down twice, east twice, down,
south, and down. Take the cap and wear it. Wait for the jester to appear. The answer to this riddle
is
triplet (or any other multiple, such as quadruplet). Go southwest. Open all the torture devices
until you find the metronome, and take it. Go back to the Great Hall (northeast, north, up, west,
north
four times), then north and east. This cauldron is where you will be throwing the 24 objects. So far
you
have three - the sceptre, the metronome, and the cap. Put the sceptre and metronome in, but
we'll be
needing the cap later. Go east and down and get the walnut. Go up and west twice to the Entrance
Hall.
Ring the bell. The solution to this riddle is time.
For Your Amusement:
Climb down the banner from the Balcony.
Put the straw (found in the Scullery) in your mouth.
The Village Area
Go north. Take the worm. Go northwest twice and up into the Upper Barbican. Turn the wheel to open
the drawbridge. Go back down and northwest two more times. Go southwest and open the locker. Take
the steel key. Go northeast twice, southeast, east, and north. The answer to this riddle is
bookkeeper. Take the zorkmid coin. Go south, east, and south. Take the package and open it. The
pigeon is a teleportation device; anyone who takes the pigeon will be transported to the location of
the
perch. Go north and east. Climb to the 19th floor, go south to the office of Frank Lloyd Flathead,
and
take the t-square. Return down until you find yourself in the basement. Push the button. Go south.
Stand on the conductor's podium and you will be transported to the Pit. Get off and take the
violin, then
stand on the podium again. Go north, up, east, and north. Take the Ring of Ineptitude. Return to the

castle (south, west four times, northwest, southwest, southeast four times, south). Go east into the

Banquet Hall and drop the t-square and violin into the cauldron.
For Your Amusement:
While holding the candle, drop the cannonball through the "murder hole" in the Upper
Barbican.
Try to enter the moat. Wait until the jester turns you into an alligator, and then try again.
Climb to the 400th floor of the FrobozzCo Building. (For sanity's sake re: climbing back down,
you
may wish to save a game first.)
The East Wing
Go south and southeast. Unlock the door with the iron key, and then drop it. Open the door and go
east
and north. Touch the armour three times and pick up the lance. Read the encyclopaedia entry about
the
jester and note his middle name. Go south twice and open the trap door. Go north and east. Take the
wand. (This wand turns living things into similar unliving objects for 16 turns, and has five
"charges"
in it.) Go east and up. Open the north door and go north twice. Take and wear the goggles. Return
south twice. Open the south door. "Tower of Bozbar" is more commonly known as "Tower
of Hanoi".
First solve it to move all the discs to the right peg. Start by moving disc 1 to the left peg. When
you are
moving the discs around, remember this rule of thumb so you can stack and unstack them quickly: If
the disc number is odd, disc 1 goes next to it (on the third peg). If it's even, disc 1 goes on
top of it. Go
north and east. Take the manuscript. Return west and south, open the south door, and play again,
moving the discs to the left peg. Go north and west and get the cup. Go east, south, down, west
three
times, northwest, and north. Put the lance and manuscript in the cauldron. Go west two more times.
The West Wing
Point the wand at the lobster and it will turn into a nutcracker. Take the nutcracker. Go south and
southwest. Unlock the door with the steel key and drop the key. Open the door and go west twice.
Open the walnut with the nutcracker. Show the walnut to the jester, and then eat it. Drop the shell
and
nutcracker. Go west and north. Play Peggleboz. The following sequence will win: QG SQ HR UL IK
TI EJ OG AE FN MO LJ PF FC BD DK QG EJ OG. Go north to the Gaming Room. Since
you are wearing the goggles, you are able to see where the jester really hid the zorkmid bill. Point
to
that location and you will get the bill. Go south twice, east, northeast, east twice, and north. Put
the bill
into the cauldron, and drop everything else. Backtrack to the West Wing (south, west twice,
southwest,
west), and then go south. Pick up the dumbbell, take it back to the Banquet Hall, and put it in the
cauldron. Pick up all your other objects. Make sure you have the candle, the coin, the pigeon, the
perch,
and the cloak, and are wearing the glove.
For Your Amusement:
Save a game. Try to take the fish tank, and then try to enter it. Restore and try the reverse order.

Eat the lobster.
Close the walnut after opening it.
When the jester is preventing you from entering the dirigible hangar (West Hall), teleport him away
using the pigeon (drop the perch somewhere else, then give him the pigeon), and then go west.
Underground
Go west, south, and down twice to the Lowest Hall. Examine the vault door. Turn the dial to any
number between 1 and 2570; the glove gives you enough manual dexterity to automatically crack the
safe. Open the vault door and go south. Take the stock certificate. Go north twice and take both the

magic passages. Read the notice. Return south and up, and then go southwest, south, and west to the
Field Office. The blueprint here is another copy-protection packaging object, so ignore it. Go west.

You're now at the edge of a maze of construction. Follow these directions: SW. SE. W. W. N.
NE. N. Install the northwest-southeast passage in the northwest wall.
NW. NE. Install the north-south passage in the north wall. N. NE. W.
SW. SW. SW. W. NW. Drop the perch here and wear the cloak.
You will be transported to the Plain, which is a chessboard, on square K7. Go west three times and
north once. Give the pigeon to the knight. The black knight will be transported to Lot 17
underground
and pick up the perch. Remove the cloak and you will return as well. Take the pigeon from the
knight.
Tell him to go to the hard-hat location with the command knight, north twice then west
once. Drop the pigeon, then take it again to join the knight on Lot 0. Tell the knight, who is now
wearing the hard hat, to reverse his move, then drop and take the pigeon to return to Lot 17. Take
the
hat and perch and backtrack to the Exit (SE, E, NE, NE, NE, E, SW, S, SW, SE, S,
SW, S, E, E, NW, NE, E, E).
Go south twice. Read the sign. Put the zorkmid coin in the basket. Drop everything but the candle
here.
Go south, east, and down. Take the orbs. Go up, west, north, get your stuff (except the cloak, which

you no longer need), north again, and east. Answer the jester's question according to what you
read in
the encyclopaedia. Take the anti-pit bomb. Go west, north twice, and northeast. Go down twice. Throw

the bomb at the pits. Take the lantern. Go up twice and then north. Take the screwdriver. Go south,
up,
north, and east. Put the certificate and screwdriver in the cauldron (we need the lantern later).
Leave the
orbs, cup, lantern, pigeon, and perch.
For Your Amusement:
Smash the orbs.
Port Foozle
Go south, west, down, southwest, south, south, west twice, southwest, west thrice, and north. Sit
down
and play Double Fanucci. To win the game, wait for the jester to discard Trebled Fromps, and then
play
three undertrumps in a row. (If any of the moves are illegal, just wait until he discards Trebled
Fromps
again, and try again. You may lose several games before you finally win.) Take the broom and stand.
Go south, east, and north. Take a number and the box (which contains a pellet of squid repellent).
Read
the sign. When your number is called, type executioner, behead me. You will return to the
Fishing Village. Go south twice, southeast, and northeast. The correct door is the one that mentions
the
Veritassi in the second statement. Open that door and take the shovel. Go down, and you will be at
the
Fork. Return to the Great Hall (northeast, east twice, north twice, northeast, up).
For Your Amusement:
Carry the pigeon and perch into the Inquisition after leaving a chess piece out in the Fishing
Village.
Carry the cloak into the Inquisition.
Castle and Village again
Go south four times, east, down, south, and southeast. Sweep the cobwebs with the broom and take the

glass flask. Drop the broom. Go northwest and north three times. Look under the slab that was
indicated by the "funny paper" to find a hole to the Oracle. Go up, north, west,
northwest, and north.
Put the flask in the cauldron. Go west, north, and northwest four times. Stand on the stump and jump
in
the directions that were indicated by the slate. Dig with the shovel, then drop it. Open the chest
and
take the gaudy crown. Return to the Banquet Hall (southeast four times, south, east) and put the
crown
in the cauldron. Go south, west, and down.
For Your Amusement:
Kill the giant spiders in the Cell.
The Lake Area
Check to see that you have the pigeon and perch, candle, and squid repellent, and are wearing the
seaman's cap. Go southeast and east. Enter the dock and then enter the boat. Examine the
controls.
Press the white button and the yacht will go out to the middle of the lake. Go down and examine the
bathysphere. Drop the squid repellent. Open the bathysphere and get inside. Close the door and
examine the controls. Turn on the lights. Put your hand in the waldo hole and get the squid
repellent.
Push the lever down. Wait four turns. Release the repellent and get the ruby. Push the lever up.
When
you reach the top, remove your hand from the hole. Open the door, get out of the bathysphere, and
take
the ruby. Go up and press the green button to go to the South Shore. Leave the yacht and leave the
dock. Go west twice. Answer music to the riddle and you will receive a diploma.
For Your Amusement:
Wait for the jester to appear in the Hold, then enter the bathysphere and use the waldo to pick him
up.
Install a magic passage in a wall of the bathysphere.
The Grotto and Shrine
Go east, south, east, northeast, north, and east. Take the amulet and wear it. Push the boulder and
go
north. Push the button and go northeast. Drop everything except the pigeon and candle. Return
southwest and go down. You will fall into the Lowest Hall along with some gravel. Take the gravel,
then the candle and pigeon. You will be transported to the Shrine. Put the gravel in the bowl.
Return
southwest and repeat the whole sequence twice, so that there are three rounds' worth of gravel
in the
bowl. Touch the elixir. Get the rest of your belongings. Go southwest, south, down, and north. Take
the
saddle and rooster. Go south twice. Take the fox. Go southwest. Take the fly. Go west and north. Get

onto the yacht and press the yellow button to return to the West Shore. Go west twice. Get the
toboggan. Go north and up, then north and east. Put the diploma and saddle in the cauldron. Drop
everything except the fox, worm, and rooster.
For Your Amusement:
Read the inscription on the toboggan.
Fenshire
Go west twice, south, southwest, and west twice. Enter the dirigible and press the right button.
Wait
four turns. Leave the dirigible and go south, east, and north. Give the fox, rooster and worm to the

jester. To transport all three items to the Nice Lunch Spot, do as follows: Take the rooster north.
Take
the fox north, get the rooster, and drop the fox. Take the rooster south, get the worm, and drop the

rooster. Take the worm north and drop it. Return south for the rooster and take it north. After the
jester
makes the stew, you will end up in the Fenshire Hangar with a hexagonal block. Press the left button
on
the gondola to return to the castle. Go east, northeast, east twice, and north. Get the ruby,
candle,
toboggan, pigeon, perch, and orbs.
For Your Amusement:
Leave the gondola in mid-flight.
Install a magic passage in a wall of the dirigible.
Clean the fireplace in Ruined Hall.
Put something into the borphbelly stew cookpot.
Oracle and Glacier
Go south, southeast, east, south, and down twice. Drop the perch. Put the ruby in the depression to
activate the Oracle. Examine the amulet. Enter the oracle at a time when one eye is open and you
will
be transported to the Glacier. Drop the toboggan and ride it. Examine all four orbs in the mirror of
the
lake. Drop the three that do not show a sleeping maiden, and throw that last one to the east. Go
west
into the Chalet and take the scale model. Go east, southeast, and northeast and retrieve the orb.
Drop
and then take the pigeon to return to the Oracle. Go up and put the model in the cauldron.
For Your Amusement:
Look at the reflections of the following things in the mirror lake: the candle, the wand, the flask
of
poison, the cloak, the glove, the goggles, the pigeon, the perch, the amulet, the jester, the
potion, the
sapphire, the scrap of parchment, either of the magic passages, and a chess piece.
Crag Area
Carry the pigeon, orb, candle, hexagonal block, and wand. Go south, west, down, and southeast. Save
the game. Examine the amulet repeatedly. Wait until you're on the first turn of all four eyes
being open.
Point the wand at the snake to turn it into a rope. Open the cage and take the rope. Drop the
pigeon,
then take it again. Enter the mouth. You will be transported to the Crag. Press the button. Go down,
tie
the rope to the spire, and go down again. Take the easel and landscape. Drop and take the pigeon to
get
back to the Oracle. Return to the Crag (enter the Oracle with no eyes open). Go northeast and then
down. Put the orb on the altar and take the flower. Return up and then go southwest twice. Put the
block in the hole and go south. Take the sapphire. Return to the Oracle via the pigeon. Go up twice,

north, west, northwest, and north. Put the easel and landscape in the cauldron.
For Your Amusement:
Wake the statue in the Enchanted Cave.
Fenshire Again
Go west twice, south, southwest, west twice, and enter the dirigible. Press the button. When you
arrive,
go south, east, and south. Play Snarfem. The flowers on the left show you which pile to take from,
and
the ones on the right show you how many to take. After you win, take the fan. Return north. Put the
flower in the vase, go east, and take the ladder. Go west twice and north. Enter the dirigible and
return
to the castle. Return to the Banquet Hall (east twice, northeast, east twice, north) and put the fan
in the
cauldron.
Antharia
Wear the hard hat and amulet, and carry the candle, pigeon, and lantern. Go to the Oracle (south,
southeast, east, south, down twice) and enter it when all four eyes are open. You will be
transported to
the Mine Entrance. Go east, northeast, and north. Press the button. Go northwest and take the quill
pen.
Go southeast, south, southwest, west twice, southwest, southeast, and east. Turn on the lantern. Go
up,
east, and southeast. Cough to summon the Antharian cave-dwelling witches. Say hello to one of them.
They'll ask for 6 gloops of water from the Great Underground Oasis and give you a 9-gloop vial.
Go
northwest. Search the nest and take the tie. Go west and down. Get your stolen light source. Turn
off
the lantern and return to the Oracle via pigeon. Put the tie and quill in the cauldron (up twice,
north,
west, northwest, north).
For Your Amusement:
Taste, smell, touch, and step in the granola in the mines.
Enter the Icky Cave (first time) without a light source, and then cough.
Fublio Valley
Still wearing the amulet, carry the candle, pigeon, and ladder. Enter the Oracle when three eyes are

open to reach Foot of Statue. Go southwest, south, and west. Read the poem. Drop the ladder and
climb
it. Open the trap door and go up to the attic. Press the button. Go down, east, north, southeast,
and east.
Read the sign. Go northeast. Take the 4-gloop vial. Return to the Oracle via pigeon.
For Your Amusement:
Put a chess piece (for example) at Foot of Statue (drop perch here. Wear cloak. Give pigeon to
piece.
Remove cloak. Get perch) and then return to the Oracle (rub the amulet). Then, while holding the
perch, put the pigeon in the Oracle's mouth.
Testing Room
Go up twice, north, west, northwest, north. Get the flamingo food and wand. Go west, west, and
south.
Point the wand at the flamingo and take the lawn ornament. Go east, down, and north twice. Put the
flamingo in one of the booths. Enter the other booth. Open the bag. Wait until the ornament reverts
to
the live flamingo and then press the button. Eat the flamingo food.
For Your Amusement:
Use the Testing Room booths to turn yourself into a violin, and then diagnose.
Desert and Oasis
Make sure to carry both vials, the candle, and the cap (worn). Go south twice, southeast, and east.
Take
the yacht to the green dock. Go south and west. Ride the camel. Go east, north, and west and have
the
camel drink at the Stream. Return east and south, then go south, southwest, southeast twice, and
northeast to the Great Underground Oasis. Dismount. Fill the 9-gloop vial. Fill the 4-gloop vial
from it
twice, emptying it each time. Pour the remaining one gloop into the 4-gloop vial. Fill the 9-gloop
vial
again and fill the 4-gloop vial from it. Six gloops will remain in the 9-gloop vial. Drop and take
the
pigeon to jump to the Oracle.
For Your Amusement:
Look inside the camel.
At South Shore, try camel, drink water.
Under the World
Enter the Oracle when all four eyes are open. Go west, southwest, southeast, east, up, east, and
southeast. Give the 9-gloop vial to one of the witches. Return to the Oracle. Get the cup of potion
and
go to the Great Hall. Go down five times, northeast, down twice, west twice, and up. Drink the
potion
and listen. Note the name of the fungus cousin the fungi are seeking. Return to the castle.
For Your Amusement:
At Hanging From Roots, let go.
Talk to the giant brogmoid.
Top of the World
With the ring, sapphire, candle, amulet, pigeon, and potion, go to the Fublio Valley (Oracle three
eyes
open). Go southwest, west, and up six times. Drink the potion again and call for the fungus cousin
by
name. Take the small fungus. Go down six times, east, southeast, south, and down. Wear the ring.
Take
the sapphire. Remove the ring. Go up, north, northwest, south, and west. Go up to the Attic. Unlock
the
trunk and open it. Get the notebook and fly. Read the notebook to get the magic word. Get your items

from the Quarry and return to the castle.
For Your Amusement:
Clean the rusty key, then read it.
Play the harmonica.
Endgame
Go down, down, down from the Great Hall until you return to the brogmoid. Enter the ear and drop the

fungus. Go in and take the earwax. Return to the Oracle via pigeon and go to Antharia once more.
Enter the Oracle when all four eyes are open. Go west, southwest, southeast, east, up, east, and
southeast. Give the wax to the witches. Go northwest, west, down, west, and northwest. Get the club.

Pigeon to the Oracle, then go up to the Banquet Hall and put the club, lantern, and cap in the
cauldron.
Go to the Secret Passage and go south, west, and up four times. Get the fly. Enter the Oracle when
two
eyes are open to go to the Frigid River Delta. Go northeast twice. Get the fly. Go southwest four
times,
then northwest. Ask Otto (the toad) for the spyglass. Give him the four flies. Return to the castle
and
put the spyglass in the cauldron. If any of the other 23 items aren't in there, put them in
now. Say the
magic word from the notebook. Now you can go all the way northwest from the outside of the castle,
past the Perimeter Wall… and into Zork I!
For Your Amusement:
Swing the bat three times.
Drop something through the machicolation in the Parapet.
Answer yes when Otto asks you if you think you own the swamp.
Stay inside the castle instead of escaping through the Perimeter Wall at the end of the game.
For Your Amusement at various times:
Look through any keyhole (such as the doors to the East or West Wings).
Examine the jester while wearing the goggles.
Cough anywhere other than the Icky Cave.
Wait for the jester to appear in the following places: at the Pits before you've used the bomb;
in the Icy
Cave; at the Delta location with Otto; in the Testing Room while you are turned into something else.

Point the wand at a chess piece, the bedbug, a fly, the brogmoid, the jester, one of the witches,
the
executioner, a unicorn, and Otto. In Otto's case, wait around until the magic wears off, too.
Drink the potion and listen to the various elm trees outside the castle, the birch at the Hollow (in
the
Fjord area), the pine at Quarry's Edge, the spenseweed in the tank, the large and small lily
pads in the
Delta, the flower, and the roots below the world.
Drop the perch out of the Gondola in mid-air, or into the abyss from Under the World, or into the
Oubliette, or over the fence at North of Anthar (south of Flathead Stadium); then pigeon to it.
Sing a lullaby to an inanimate object, when the jester is around, and when no other character is
around.
Try these commands: date, time (after 1000 turns), turn around, hello sailor, tip
the jester (when he's present), remove hand (other than from the waldo hole), count eyes
(while not holding the amulet).
Encyclopaedia entries:
Illustrated: Dimwit Flathead, Megaboz, Flatheadia, the FrobozzCo Building, Brogmoidism, Zilbeetha,
the Jester, and the Four Fantastic Flies of Famathria.
People: Boswell Barwell, Frobesius Fublius, Entharion, Korboz, Gumboz, Zorbius Blattus, Zylo
Pickthorn, Belboz, Davmar, Duncanthrax, Wurb Flathead, Ursula Flathead, and Saints Foobus,
Bovus, Quakko, Wiskus, Honko, and Balhu.
Places: Fublio Valley, Fenshire, Quilbozza Beach, Flathead Ocean, Frigid River, Frigid River Valley,

Mirror Lake, Eastlands, Westlands, Froblo Park, Borphee, Pheebor, Flood Control Dam #3, Lake
Flathead, Largoneth Castle, Egreth Castle, Mount Foobia, Land of Shadow, Rockville Estates, Royal
Museum, Mareilon, Antharia, Flathead Stadium, Gray Mountains, Flathead Mountains, Zorbel Pass,
Thriff, Gurth, Miznia, Mithicus, Fields of Frotzen, Port Foozle, Frobozz, Aragain Falls, Flathead
Fjord, and the Great Underground Empire.
Events: Diablo Massacre, Zucchini Wars, Treaty of Znurg, Battle of Ragweed Gulch, Endless Fire, and
Granola Wars.
Brief entries: Peggleboz, Tower of Bozbar, Snarfem, Double Fanucci, Oracle of Bargth, Inquisition,
Encyclopaedia Frobozzica, Borphbelly Stew, Jewel of Jerrimore, zorkmid, bloit, chess, the Curse,
Curse Day, brogmoid, grue, hellhound, Mithican chameleon, Polar Gumffbeast, spenseweed, fungus,
Wishyfoo, Prevaricon, Veritassi, Great Underground Highway, FrobozzCo International, Enchanters
Guilde, magic potion, magic wand, and rebus.
Just for fun: Myself, Zork, Infocom, and Steve Meretzky.
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