Blackscar Mountain - Titan Games

                    Sent in by Graham Wheeler

First half of the solution:

Examine pillar (note word MUDAZ)
E
Examine price list
Buy mallet
W, N, W
Examine bushes (find a candle)
Examine gravestone (find a stake)
W
Examine rubble
Examine rubble (you find a cross)
E, E, NW, NE, NE, N, W
Open coffin (vampire is scared of cross)
Kill vampire (with stake and mallet)
Examine coffin
Get coins (357 coins)
Examine vampire
Get ring
Wear ring
E
Examine bridge
Examine planks (one is loose)
Get plank
Get rope
S, SW, SW, SE, S, E
Buy lantern
Buy axe
Buy nails
W
Drop mallet
Drop cross
W
Talk to barman
Buy barrel
Examine drapes
Get drapes
Talk to traveller (he says he will sell his magic dagger)
Light lantern (at fire)
E, N, NW
Examine undergrowth (to find a trail NW)
NW
Examine undergrowth (to find nightshade)
NW
Examine undergrowth (you find an overgrown trail NW)
Cut undergrowth
NW, N
Examine gap (you see 53 orcs in a cavern)
Drop barrel (the orcs can see the barrel, they will drink the ale
and go to sleep)
S, SE
Cover entrance with drapes (the trolls come close to the 
entrance cave because they think it's night)
Get drapes (trolls turn to stone in sunlight)
E
Open door
Drop drapes
Drop plank
E
Examine hobbits (you find lockpicks)
Examine warrior (you find hauberk)
Wear hauberk
S (you hear door shut and lock)
Put nightshade in pot (stew is now poisoned)
Get meat
Get all (pepper, flour and bellows)
Unlock chest (you find a potion and 147 coins)
N (ogre catches you; he's going to eat you but he tries the stew
first and dies)
N (the door is now locked and it is too heavy for you to move the
bar)
Drink potion (you automatically walk through the door)
NW
Examine rubble (you find 62 coins)
Get salve
E, E
Read message (warns of lake guardian)
SE
Put nails in meat
Feed guardian (it is killed by the nails)
Swim (you get the helmet and return)
Examine helmet
Wear helmet
NW, W, N
Make lasso
Lasso lever (you pull lever and raise the portcullis)
N, SW (the 53 orcs are now asleep)
Examine furs (you get a sapphire and 203 coins)
NE, N, W
Read message (it asks if you want wealth or health)
Examine skeletons (they all have crushed skulls)
Get diamond (your head is saved by the helmet, you automatically
leave the cave but the statue is now following you)
N, N
Wait
Wait
Wait (the statue is now close)
Attack statue with plank (you miss but statue hits unsafe wall
when it attacks and is crushed)
E (you see a large spider on a web)
Attack spider with axe (it tries to bite you but the hauberk
protects you and you kill it as it retreats)
Examine cocoon (someone is inside)
Cut strand (the freed adventurer gives you a gorget)
Wear gorget
W, S, S, S, E, SE
Examine reptiloids
Throw sapphire into lake (reptiloids go after it)
Unlock chest (you find 138 coins)
Examine corpses (one is wearing gauntlets)
Get gauntlets
Wear gauntlets
NW
Look
Look (a wizard appears and starts to cast a spell at you)

Throw pepper at wizard (he puts his hand to his nose and kills
himself with his fireball spell)
N
Get all (key/robe)
Wear robe
Examine benches (you find 248 coins)
S
Drop robe
E, E
Examine stalactites (they are really cave clingers which you now
automatically avoid)
NE (you see 47 goblins; they start to follow you)
SW
Examine stalactites (to see clingers' position again)
W (as you start to leave, the goblins come in and are killed by
clingers)
NE
Examine furs (you find a sword and 47 coins)
SW, W, W, W, S, S, W, SE
Get plank
NW, E, N, N, E, E, E, S, SW, UP (there are bandits guarding the
exits)
Talk to bandits (they want 100 crowns to let you pass)
Pay toll to bandits (you are automatically outside the cave by a
barrier)
Read message (it warns about basilisk)
Cut barrier (with axe)
S, W
Get coins (159 coins)
N (you see a basilisk)
Wait
Wait
Wait (you are told to do something fast)
Use bellows (you blow the breath back at the basilisk and he is
killed)
Get coins (706 coins)
Drop bellows
W, NW (you are on a ledge; there's a gap NE)
Put plank over gap (you use the plank as a bridge)
NE (you see a wyvern)
Attack wyvern (he forces you back towards the cave mouth)
Catch tail
Cut stinger (the stinger is poison; if you are poisoned, use
salve) (wyvern falls out of cave)
Get coins (421 coins)
NE, E (you see a demon)..............

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