CRACKS OF FIRE
Written by Bob Chappel (Supersoft)
Walk Through by Dorothy Millard (C64 Version)
Notes
1. Shogra the spider attacks randomly and most time you can BRANDISH PHIAL, but occasionally this
won't work, so save the game regularly and if you die restore your saved position.
2. The orcs will attack regularly, when they do BRANDISH PHIAL will do the trick.
Walk Through
(Start in the mountains of Moldak), E, E (very edge of the cracks of fire), GET SPHERE, GET
MANUSCRIPT, READ MANUSCRIPT (says "Brandish it high if evil comes close by, Hold it fast if you
would live not die"), DROP MANUSCRIPT, W, N, W (box canyon), DROP SPHERE, GET PEBBLE, EXAMINE
PEBBLE (looks like an evil red eye), E (wide stony clearing where there is a sinister looking
shaft), D (shaft), D, W (small cave), GET PHIAL (of purity), N, N (tight twisting tunnel), GET WEED,
W, S (damp chamber where there is the head of a gargoyle with an eye missing on the wall), DROP EYE
(it flies up and embeds itself in the gargoyle's socket), PUSH EYE (there is a deep rumble and
the east wall slides back).
E, E, E, U (rock hewn chamber), GET FUR (wolf), LOOK (see the palstone, a powerful orb-like gem
controlled by Sagrok), GET PALSTONE, D, W, W, W, U, W, U, U, S, E (very edge of the cracks of fire),
DROP PALSTONE (there is a mighty roar and blue flames leap from the cracks of fire destroying it),
W, N, D, D, E, D, E, S, W (cave of green jade where you meet a dwarf sucking on an empty clay pipe),
GIVE WEED (he takes the tobacco, rolls something towards you and vanishes), LOOK, GET GLOBE (of
green fire), E, N, W, U, W, W (small cave), GET MEAT (rotting orc meat), E, U, U, W (box canyon),
GET KEY (iron), N (copse), DROP KEY, GET BOOK (of myths), READ BOOK (hints), DROP BOOK, GET KEY, E,
D (earth chamber), E (the portcullis is locked), OPEN PORTCULLIS (using key - a voice shrieks and
the orc awakens), BRANDISH PHIAL (it sparkles and the orc shrivels in a blaze of light - note do
this each time the orc appears), DROP KEY.
W (low room), GET TABLET (rune), E, E, S (sacrificial altar where scratching on the floor reads
"Speak for the Dumb"), READ TABLET (there is a rumble and the east wall slides back), DROP
TABLET, E (dumb marshes), E (desolate marsh where you meet a drooling troll), GIVE MEAT (he gobbles
it and falls asleep), S (soft oozing ground), GET FISH, W, GET CUP (elven crystal cup), E, N, W, W,
W, U, W, S (box canyon), DROP GLOBE, DROP FISH, E, D (shaft), D, E, D, E, S, W, S (cave of crystal
presence where a dwarf lurks in the corner), GIVE CUP (he gives you a staff in return), W, W (high
pass where you meet Shogra the giant spider), BRANDISH PHIAL (spider screams with pain and
disappears), N, E (still, silent lake), GET GOBBOL (the strange), W, W (misty coppice where Solbone
is spellbound by the staff), GET SOLBONE, E, S, E, D, W, W, W, U, W, U, W, GET FISH, E, S, E (very
edge of the cracks of fire - Shogra is after you again), BRANDISH PHIAL, DROP SOLBONE, DROP FIST
(the crackling flames seem to say "The ring is hidden in the tower").
W, N, D, D, E, D, E, S, W, S, W, W (high pass where you meet Shogra again), BRANDISH PHIAL, N, W, N
(grove of twisted trees), GET CUP, N, W, W, S, E, D, E (cavern of crystal where a dwarf sits
wistfully by a fountain), GIVE CUP (he flees with the cup, but his hat falls off), LOOK, GET HAT,
EXAMINE HAT (there's a feather stuck in it), DROP HAT, GET FEATHER, S, S, W, U, W, U, U, S, E
(very edge of the cracks of fire where you meet Shogra again), BRANDISH PHIAL, W, N, W (box canyon),
GET GLOBE, GIVE FEATHER (the falcon picks it up and the binding spell breaks), GET FALCON, N, E, D,
E, S, E, E, S, W, S (end of track), DROP GLOBE (it explodes engulfing the balrog in searing green
fire revealing a gap in the east wall), E, S, E (crumbling stone stairway where Morkyth the dark
enemy flees in fear as the falcon soars up and pursues him).
W, N, W, N, E, N, W, W, W, U, W, S, E, S, W (mountains of Moldak where you see the falcon), GET
FALCON, E, N, W, N, E, D, E, S, E, E, S, W, S, E (ruined tower), S, E (crumbling stone stairway), U
(landing where you see a vision of your coming destruction), N (blood stained cell where high up on
a ledge something gleams), DROP FALCON (it soars up to the ledge, returns and drops something at
your feet), LOOK, GET RING (the true ring), S, D, D, W (filthy cell), GET FOLIO, EXAMINE FOLIO (says
"Speak Garston"), DROP FOLIO, GET GOBBOL (the strange), E, U, W, N, W, N, E, N, E, W, W,
W, U, W, S, E, S, E (very edge of the cracks of fire), DROP RING (Gobbol shrieks, snatches at the
ring, stumbles and falls screaming into the cracks... the ring perishes with him... the world seems
to explode around you... the Dark Lords have become an inferno and Sagrok has disintegrated in a
puff of vial smelling black smoke... you are transported on the back of the eagle to your beloved
home where you are given a great welcome.
HAIL THE HERO!
Taken from Dorothy Irene's site: http://dorothyirene.fateback.com/
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