LANCELOT
Written by Pete Austin & Mike Austin 1988 (Level 9)
Walk Through by Dorothy Millard (C64 Version)
Scenario
You, as the legendary Lancelot, are out on a quest for the Holy Grail, and must, along the way, save
imprisoned knights and damsels in distress.
Library Books
In part 1 the books in the library tell you:
i. A selection Tristam of Cornwall's well-known compositions for the harp.
ii. The sound of the horn can be heard in the distance.
iii. A knight is always true to his lady.
iv. The legends of wounded King Pelham in the marsh.
v. Turquin's prison cannot be entered by one knight alone.
vi. Only a knight free of sin shall reach the grail.
vii. The key to the key is cancellation and much help.
viii. Elaine is cursed yet blessed, for she will bear the best of knights.
ix. Orkney shrubs can hold a multitude.
x. Arthur's missing knights are found in nine places.
Note
You cannot take the gold out of the offertory bowl.
Walk Through
PART 1
Start with Lancelot riding east on the road to Camelot), E (ford where you are challenged by the
Black Knight), FIGHT KNIGHT (keep attacking until he eventually yields), YES (you accept his
surrender - it's King Arthur in disguise and he invites you to Camelot), E, E, E, E
(serf's gate of the castle where you meet Sir Kay who tells you to go and sleep in the mews,
but if you do you will arrive at the royal presence in such a filthy state that the king will refuse
to knight you), GO TO MERLIN, MERLIN HELLO (he tells you to make yourself at home), N (guest room
where you lay on the bed), WAIT, WAIT (you sleep and awake refreshed in the morning), S, E
(library), READ BOOK (repeat READ BOOK nine times for useful clues), FIND TABLE (the famed round
one), N (Arthur's echoing hall where you meet the king), WAIT (until King Arthur welcomes you),
KING KNIGHT ME (you are knighted and become a member of the Round Table... you are sent on a quest
to rescue his knights and prove yourself worthy), GO TO LOGRIS (part 2 loads).
PART 2
(Start on a wide avenue in Logris), DAMOSEL HELLO (Damosel Maledisant greets you and asks you to
help break the siege at Castle Lyonesse), GO TO CASTLE LYONESSE (you stop at Turquin's manor
where you are invited to fight but decline remembering the book reference and are called a coward by
the lady), N, N (a lady asks for help), CLIMB ELM (you see a trapped hawk above you), U (top of
elm), EXAMINE HAWK (it's tangled in the branches), UNTIE HAWK, D, D (Sir Phelot arrives and
attacks you), TAKE WOOD (dead), THROW WOOD AT SIR PHELOT, GO TO LYONESSE (you stop when you meet the
Black Knight in the black launds), ATTACK KNIGHT (keep attacking until he is defeated or yields),
YES (if he yields, spare him), N (green launds - the Green Knight challenges), ATTACK KNIGHT (keep
attacking until he is defeated or yields), YES (if he yields, spare him), N (red launds - the Red
Knight challenges), ATTACK KNIGHT (keep attacking until he is defeated or yields), YES (if he
yields, spare him - unlike the other two the Red Knight will now help you on your quest).
N (siegeworks), GET HORN, BLOW HORN (the siege army leaves), IN (Castle Lyonesse where you meet the
Lady of Lyonesse who expresses her gratitude by allowing her daughter to accompany you), RED KNIGHT
FOLLOW ME (he agrees), GO TO BRACHET, EXAMINE BRACHET (a large dog), FOLLOW BRACHET (until you
locate Sir Meliot who tells you that his wounds may only be cured by a cloth from the witch who
cursed him), FIND CLOTH (you find yourself inside the Periolous Chapel where a witch warns you that
you are in danger ... ignore the witch for now), S (inner chamber), TAKE CLOTH (the knights vanish),
FIND SIR MELIOT (he touches the cloth to his wounds and is healed... he then rides off to Camelot to
join Arthur).
GO TO CROSSROADS, N, N, N, N, N (to a glen in the Orkneys), EXAMINE BUSHES (large enough to hide
several knights), U, U (mountain top), EXAMINE BEACON (could be re-lit), D, D, HIDE IN BUSHES, RED
KNIGHT GO U, U, AND THEN LIGHT BEACON, WAIT (three times until the Red Knight lights the beacon and
the guard goes to see what's happening), W, IN (ground floor of brooch), W (stairs), D, E
(basement), UNBOLT DOOR (prison), E (into prison) (Sir Lamorak is most grateful), LAMORAK FOLLOW ME,
W (back to basement - a chest is on a trapdoor), EXAMINE CHEST (heavy), LAMORAK WAIT 1 THEN PUSH
CHEST, PUSH CHEST (with the two of you pushing it slides away from the trapdoor), D (into a tunnel),
OUT (beach), N (back to outside brooch).
GO TO ROMAN ROAD (you are beside a turret), IN (to Garlon's Turret where you are attacked by an
invisible enemy), CLOSE SHUTTERS (it is now dark so the invisible Garlon has now lost his
advantage), ATTACK INVISIBLE (continue attacking until Garlon is dead), OUT, W, W (forest road), N
(into the forest), E, E, E, N, IN (to Wailing Castle where Sir Pedivere asks you to slay Sir Breunis
that he may be free), OUT, WAIT FOR BREUNIS, ATTACK BREUNIS (he rides north), N, ATTACK BREUNIS
(keep attacking until he is dead... Sir Pedivere thanks you), PEDIVERE FOLLOW ME, GO TO MARSH ROAD
(you are in a trackless marsh), S, GIVE HORN TO PEDIVERE, PEDIVERE WAIT 1 THEN BLOW HORN, N (the
horn sounds and you can now see which way to go), N (to reedy isle beside a castle), IN (to Castle
Pelham where King Pelham tells you about how the Holy Grail would appear after the arrival in
Camelot of Lancelot's unborn son).
RUN TO CROSSROADS, W, W (to an east/west Roman road where the briars are - note these grow back as
fast as they are cut), EXAMINE BRIARS (they are armed with thorns), LAMORAK WAIT 2 THEN CUT BRIARS,
PEDIVERE WAIT 1 THEN CUT BRIARS, CUT BRIARS (you now have a way through), N (you are under an apple
tree outside Castle Chariot with four queens who are insisting that you choose one of them as a
lover), WAIT (until they get angry and throw you in a cell), WAIT (again until a maiden enters),
EXAMINE MAIDEN (she was carrying a plate), EXAMINE PLATE (contains food), TAKE FOOD (don't eat
it though), WAIT (some more until the queen enters), EXAMINE MORGAN (she is carrying a glass of
wine... she offers it - DO NOT drink it), GET WINE, WAIT (the queen asks are you now willing to love
only me?), NO, WAIT (until the maiden returns), GIVE WINE TO MAIDEN (she falls in love with you and
opens the door), W (corridor), N (into a prison where Sir Gawain is), GAWAIN FOLLOW ME, S, OUT (to
by the apple tree), S (road), SCORE (290/1000).
E, E, E, E, E (west shore where you see a boat), IN (you are now in the boat), S, S, E (you are
beside a rock where a mermaid sits combing her hair), EXAMINE MERMAID (she is carrying a harp),
GAWAIN WAIT THEN GO EAST, TAKE HARP (if you don't get Gawain to do this she snatches the harp
back), E (you are on the far shore), OUT (of the boat), E (beside a tower), READ INSCRIPTION
("Here lives Elaine cursed by Queens Morgan and Northgale to simmer in boiling water until
rescued by the best knight in the world"), S (stairs), U (steam room where Elaine is - you lead
her from the cauldron... she invites you to visit her at Corbin Castle), D, N, E (Corbin Village),
IN (castle hall where King Pelles, Elaine's father, commands a feast in your honour.. after the
banquet Elaine invites you to her room).
U (landing - Elaine's room is east while your room is south - you cannot go to Elaine without
sullying your honour so), S (you are in the perilous bedroom but cannot, in honour, leave until
morning), TAKE PILLOW, LIE ON BED (during the night you are woken by a panel opening, are attacked
and wounded), EXAMINE PANEL (almost hidden), LIE ON BED (this time you are awakened by a magical
knight emerging from the panel), CLOSE PANEL (moved a little), CLOSE PANEL (almost half shut), CLOSE
PANEL (completely shut), ATTACK KNIGHT (keep attacking until he is dead), LIE ON BED (the panel
opens again and an old man with a staff of vengeance appears), EXAMINE OLD MAN (of sad appearance -
note if you kill him you lose 20 points so just ignore him), LIE ON BED (repeat, ignoring the four
gentlemen and the bishop, until the cock crows and you are free to leave), N (gallery - Dame Brisen
the enchantress gives you a potion that makes you believe Elaine is Queen Genevere... so you lay
together... thus the prophesy is fulfilled... Lancelot however kept his honour because he betrayed
Genevere against his will), SCORE (350/1000).
GO TO BOAT, IN, N, N (Isle of Servage), OUT, E (you are outside a castle where a giant lives) U
(inside the tower where the giant wakes long enough to tell you that he is not afraid of you as a
saint once told him that he could only be killed by his hand, which is mummified and in the sack on
which the giant rests his head), GAWAIN WAIT THEN PUT PILLOW UNDER HEAD, GET SACK (this substitutes
the pillow for the sack and the giant continues sleeping), EXAMINE SACK (in it is a relic), REMOVE
RELIC (from the sack), HIT GIANT WITH RELIC (he collapses into dust as the mummified hand strikes
him), GAWAIN WAIT THEN OPEN DOOR, OPEN DOOR, E (into a prison where you rescue Bors de Ganis), BORS
FOLLOW ME.
RUN TO TURQUIN'S MANOR, LOOK (you are on a track outside the manor... Sir Turquin attacks you),
FIGHT TURQUIN (keep attacking until he submits and flees inside his manor), IN (you see a secret
panel and some loose planks), N (you step on the loose planks... the panel opens and an arrow fires
which you dodge - do you want to jump back?), YES (note Lancelot is the only one who can safely pass
here), BORS WAIT THEN HOLD PANEL OPEN, N (again you are asked if you want to jump back), YES (Bors
is holding the panel open), ENTER PANEL (to secret room where the crossbow is), EXAMINE CROSSBOW (it
was the act of a moment to destroy it), GAWAIN WAIT 20 (leaving Gawain here acts as a balance for
the boards and prevents you falling into the lower dungeons with the other knights), BORS FOLLOW
ME.
SE (back to gateway), N (the floor moves, jump back?), NO (the floor was balanced by someone in the
secret room), N (courtyard), N (upper prison - there's a pit, winch, cage and lever here), BORS
WAIT 12 THEN TURN WINCH, GET IN CAGE, TURN WINCH (the cage descends to the lower prison where nine
knights await rescue), ECOTR GET IN CAGE, WAIT 10 THEN GO TO CAMELOT, AGRAVAIN GET IN CAGE, WAIT 9
THEN GO TO CAMELOT, ALIDUKE GET IN CAGE, WAIT 8 THEN GO TO CAMELOT, BRANDILES GET IN CAGE, WAIT 7
THEN GO TO CAMELOT, BRIAN GET IN CAGE, WAIT 6 THEN GO TO CAMELOT, GEHERIS GET IN CAGE, WAIT 5 THEN
GO TO CAMELOT, GARETH GET IN CAGE, WAIT 4 THEN GO TO CAMELOT, LIONEL GET IN CAGE, WAIT 3 THEN GO TO
CAMELOT, MARHAUS GET IN CAGE, WAIT 2 THEN GO TO CAMELOT, GET IN CAGE (Bors winches the whole party
to the top), WAIT (the knights ride off to Camelot), W (into guardroom where you fight a rearguard
action but are driven from the castle), SCORE (390/1000).
S, S, W, W, W, W, W (windswept tor), N, E (you are on a road from the beach and sentries guard
northeast), WAIT (until a carter enters if he isn't already there), GET IN CART, WAIT (keep
waiting until the carter drives past the sentries), GET OUT (of the cart), EXAMINE FIRE (burning and
in it is some hot coals), EXAMINE SHIPS (they are the Sessoine invasion fleet), EXAMINE CAULDRON
(contains soup), EMPTY CAULDRON, BORS PUT COALS IN CAULDRON, GET CAULDRON (if you drop it just try
again), U (you are on board a Sessoine warship... on the deck are a pile of sails), PUT COALS ON
SAILS (they catch fire and the whole fleet burns... with their ships lost the Sessoines surrender...
you are greeted by King Mark and invited to Tintagel Castle for a celebration), SW, SW, NW (outside
the Cornish King's Castle of Tintagel), IN (you find that the king is holding Tristram, one of
Arthur's knights, as a hostage... he imprisons you lest you free him), GIVE HARP TO TRISTRAM
(he plays and the guards fall under the enchantment of his music... they gladly open the cells for
all to escape), SCORE (460/1000).
(You have now released the knights from the nine locations and must report back to Arthur to be
confirmed as a Round Table Knight), RUN TO ARTHUR (you are on a wide avenue), S (game one loads in),
RUN TO ARTHUR (Genevere reads a sheaf of letters from the Damosel Maledisant in which she praises
Lancelot's deeds... you are proclaimed a worthy champion for the Queen and invited to join
Genevere in the meadows of Westminster).
GO TO WESTMINSTER (when you arrive you find the queen no longer there and signs of a struggle), WAIT
FOR CARTER (if he isn't already here), GET IN CART (note if you get in while he is going north
you will see him making deliveries before finally loading provisions and heading south to Castle
Meliagaunt), WAIT (keep waiting until you are on the east side of castle Meliagaunt), IN (to hall
where the Knights turn and run at your very presence), U (landing), N (into the royal suite - the
Queen's Knights are here), N (royal boudoir - Sir Meliagaunt is apologising for kidnapping the
Queen... she thanks you as her saviour inviting you to return later and dismisses you imperiously
with a wave of the hand), S (note if you try to return to the boudoir you are told that you are not
permitted), W (into the guest suite), EXAMINE BED, EXAMINE CHEST (contains some gloves and a hat),
GET GLOVES (leave the hat), E, D, OUT,
W (formal gardens), EXAMINE WINDOW (barred), U (overcome with passion you bend the bars and hurt
your hand... you spend the night with Genevere), OUT (in the morning you climb down the ivy to the
gardens below), WEAR GLOVES (they hide your injury), E, IN (hall of the castle), U (landing - you
hear shouting from the queen's room), N, N (Genevere's boudoir - Sir Meliagaunt accuses
Genevere of adultery as blood was found on her pillow... you defend her... your challenge is
accepted setting the time for three days hence), S, S, D (the stairs give way and you drop a long
way), LOOK (you are in a small dark prison), WAIT (until the damosel enters if she isn't
already there), EXAMINE DAMOSEL (she promises your freedom if you promise to love her and give her a
kiss), WAIT (until the damosel leaves), WAIT (a night and day pass), WAIT (the damosel enters
again), EXAMINE DAMOSEL, WAIT (she still wants a promise and a kiss), WAIT (until she leaves), WAIT
(another day and night passes), WAIT (this is the important third day... until the damosel enters),
WAIT (the damosel tells you that Genevere is to be executed today as she has no champion to defend
her honour... she feels sorry for you and offers to free you for just a kiss with no promise), KISS
DAMOSEL (she opens the door).
FIND QUEEN (you are on the lawns beside the castle where the queen is tied to a stake with the evil
Sir Meliagaunt ready to light a fire), FIGHT MELIAGAUNT (after a pitched battle you prove the
queen's innocence and release her from the stake... you are taken to the landing of the palace
- note down takes you to the throne room but you cannot re-climb the stairs... your room is to the
west and the queen's is to the east... you know that it is Arthur's wish that you embark
on the quest for the Holy Grail, but realise that you cannot leave without saying farewell to your
only love the queen, so undressed and unarmed), E (into Genevere's bedchamber - there's a
knock on the door), GET STOOL, EXAMINE STOOL (there is a demand that the door be opened), QUEEN WAIT
THEN CLOSE DOOR, OPEN DOOR (Colgreavaunce enters and attacks Lancelot... the queen shuts the door),
ATTACK COLGREAVAUNCE (you use the footstool and strike him down... you take his armour and
weapons... you open the door and drive off the other knights... again you prove your honour and that
of the queen.... game three loads).
PART 3 - QUEST FOR THE HOLY GRAIL
(Twenty years have passed since you left Camelot... the knights have dispersed to follow the Holy
Grail... you find yourself in the chapel of Vagon Castle in front of the altar and as you are about
to embark on a holy quest), PRAY (or be called Lancelot the Infidel), WAIT FOR GALAHAD, EXAMINE
GALAHAD, OUT, E (to a fork in the road - a cross and a crown are here), EXAMINE CROSS (bears an
inscription saying northeast to peace and southeast to death), EXAMINE CROWN (don't take it
though or you will be known as Lancelot the thief), NE, N (outside a church where a preacher greets
you and says he will shorten your quest for the holy grail if you give him the jewelled crown), MAKE
SIGN OF THE CROSS (the demon vanishes).
S, SW, SE (thorny track), S (shady woods where a knight protecting the woods has sworn to kill
Lancelot and asks your name), KNIGHT I AM LANCELOT, ATTACK KNIGHT (keep attacking until he is
defeated or avows that you have fought bravely and spares your life), E (outside a pavilion - a
damosel invites you inside), EXAMINE DAMOSEL, IN (pavilion - she offers you cakes but don't eat
them because if you do you lose 10 points for the first and second and 50 points for the third - if
you ignore the damosel you are branded unchivalrous and lose 50 points), MAKE SIGN OF THE CROSS (she
was really a demon... the pavilion vanishes), E (to ford where a black knight challenges you but you
can get past so long a you aren't carrying anything), E, E, N (base of cliff), U, U, U, U
(outside hermitage - ignore the entreaties of demons claiming to be deciples of Nacien), IN (the
real Nacien gives you a chalice), TAKE CHALICE, OUT, D, D, D, D (base of cliff), S, S (well), GIVE
CHALICE TO PILGRIM (he drinks and returns it to you - note Lancelot isn't pure enough to draw
water from the well).
S (into the White Abbey), EXAMINE SHIELD, EXAMINE TOMB (note you are unable to get the shield,
Galahad must do this but not yet), OUT, N, E (stony road), E (forest ride where you see Sir Ector in
trouble with some bandits to the north and a maiden in distress to the south), S (you rescue the
maiden), N, N (you rescue Sir Ector... you score 20 points each for saving them in the correct
order), S, D (bleak shore), EXAMINE BOAT, EXAMINE HORN, EXAMINE SWORD (again Galahad must get this),
FIND GALAHAD, FOLLOW GALAHAD (continue following him until the barbarous knights attack him and you
hasten to his aid), ATTACK KNIGHTS (keep attacking until suddenly the skies open and lightening
strikes Galahad's foes - Galahad should now obey your commands), GO TO WHITE ABBEY, WAIT FOR
GALAHAD, GALAHAD TAKE SHIELD, GALAHAD FOLLOW ME, GO TO SHORE, WAIT FOR GALAHAD, GALAHAD TAKE SWORD,
RUN TO WHITE ABBEY, GALAHAD OPEN TOMB (a foul field emerges), GALAHAD KILL FIELD, EXAMINE TOMB
(contains a dead body), TAKE BODY, FIND PRIEST (the priests say a benediction over the body and take
it for burial).
GO TO BOAT, GET IN BOAT (note Galahad is the only one who can steer the boat), TAKE HORN, GALAHAD GO
S (you need wind and Galahad prays for it), BLOW HORN (a magical wind springs up), GALAHAD GO S (you
are on a western shore of seaweed strewn pebbles), GALAHAD GO E, GALAHAD GO E, GALAHAD GO S (Isle of
Turnance), U (path where a fisherman tells you about two great dragons laying waste to this isle),
E (small hillock), S, S, S (blackened clearing - a black dragon is here), N (the dragon follows
you), N, N (back to hillock still with the dragon following), GALAHAD WAIT WITH DRAGON, N, N, N
(clearing where you see the red dragon), S (the red dragon follows), S, S (hillock where the black
dragon is - the two dragons fight and kill each other... the people of the isle bring Lancelot a cup
of mead in token of their gratitude), GALAHAD GO TO BOAT, GO TO BOAT, GET IN, GALAHAD GET IN (if he
hasn't already).
GALAHAD GO N, GALAHAD GO N, GALAHAD GO N (shore of an island - there is a wall of flame across the
isle), EMPTY CHALICE, FILL CHALICE (with salt water), EMPTY CUP (of mead), FILL CUP (with salt
water), GIVE CHALICE TO GALAHAD, GALAHAD, WAIT, THROW WATER, FILL CHALICE, THROW WATER, FILL
CHALICE, THROW WATER, (Lancelot) THROW WATER, FILL CUP, THROW WATER, FILL CUP, THROW WATER
(eventually the salt water quenches the flames), U (sand dune), FILL CUP (with sand), D, TAKE
CHALICE (from Galahad), FILL CHALICE (with salt water), GET IN BOAT.
GALAHAD GO S, GALAHAD GO E, GALAHAD GO E (dark shore), U (pavement), IN (antechapel - Bors and
Percival are here to help you), EXAMINE KEY, GIVE HORN TO GALAHAD, GIVE CUP TO PERCIVAL, GIVE
CHALICE TO BORS, BORS WAIT 3 AND THROW WATER, PERCIVAL WAIT 2 AND THROW SAND, GALAHAD WAIT THEN BLOW
HORN, TAKE KEY (a fire spirit appears and the salt water quenches it... a water spirit appears and
the sand soaks it up... Galahad blows the horn and a magical wind springs up which scatters the sand
spirit), UNLOCK DOOR, E (dark valley), IN (castle where two lions spring at you but miss), E (into a
majestic corridor), E (into the grail chamber where Joseph of Aramathea is saying mass... he looks
good for being over 1000 years old but you gain the last 100 points and go off to become a hermit
for the rest of your days).
SCORE 1000 out of 1000
ADVENTURE COMPLETED
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