Moonmist (yellow version) - Infocom

I  knew  something  was  up the moment  I  got  Tamara's  letter!
Obviously  she  was scared for her life but - a ghost  trying  to
kill her? Impossible ... or so I thought.

I  arrived at Tresyllian Castle and was admitted by pressing  the
eye on the wyvern carving by the gate.  The butler asked my  name
and which was my favourite colour. Yellow,  of course, the colour
of my new sports car!

Inside the gates,  Tamara came flying out to meet me.  We chatted
for  a  while  and I asked her about the  ghost. She  really  was
convinced  the  so-called White Lady was  after  her.  Soon,  she
introduced me to Jack, her fiance. He was a real charmer!

The  other house guests were Vivien Pentreath,  Montague Hyde  (a
shifty customer if ever I saw one), Iris Vane, Ian Fordyce and Dr
Wendish.  Evidently  they  were all there for  Lionel's  memorial
birthday dinner.  Lionel was Jack's uncle and Jack had  inherited
the castle  from him.  I asked all of  them if they  had seen the
ghost. Jack, Vivien, Wendish and Ian hadn't seen it. Hyde had met
the ghost and said it was going towards the tower. Iris  had seen
it on the tower stairs.

The  butler, Bolitho,  showed  me to my  room.  Before he left, I
asked him about the  ghost and he  said he  had seen it searching
the carpet in the drawing room downstairs but it fled when it saw
him. He gave me an  aerosol that might help me and also said that
if I wanted to check my appearance, the mirrors in the room would
adjust.  Too right,  they did!  When he left, I tried moving them
and  found a  switch on  the wall mirror.  Behind it was a secret
passage.

After  washing and changing,  I wandered down for dinner. While I
was waiting for the dinner gong  to be rung, I searched the floor
in the drawing room really carefully and found a red jewel.

Once in the dining room, I noticed that Bolitho placed a note  on
Jack's napkin so I sneakily read it. It seemed  the  servants, by
arrangement  in  Lionel's  will, were leaving the castle once the
gong had been rung for  dinner.  One, Gladys, wouldn't  be coming
back. She had handed in her notice and left an  explanatory  note
on the desk in the sitting room. I vowed to look for that later.

The meal was just getting pleasantly under way when a voice  came
from the bust of Lionel that was in the room! I examined the bust
and  found it was hollow with a tape recorder in  it.  Obviously,
Lionel had planned this evening well.  He said that there was one
valuable item he had brought back from his travels abroad  hidden
in  the  house.  The first clue to find it was hidden  under  the
punchbowl and Jack had the second.

I  read them both.  The first was of a Polynesian diver holding a
knife and plunging through black water. The second said:
    ".....yet the ear distinctly tells....
     How the danger sinks and swells,
     By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the ____s"


The  meal finished  and I went down to the kitchen where I  found 
a lantern. Since I  could  only  think  of one  word  that  would 
complete the verse - bell - I headed up to the tower  where there
was a bell. Examining it, I found the third clue which read:
    "....and so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
     Of my darling - my darling - my life and my bride..."

I  wandered  through the  Castle,  unsure what to do next, till I
came  to the  basement  where  there was  an iron  maiden  in the
dungeon.  On impulse, I  entered it. The floor dropped away and I
found myself  in a secret tomb where there was a coffin. I opened
the coffin and  found the fourth clue. It said: If you search for
"a cask of Amontillado", don't get trapped!

There  was  a wine rack  in the basement upstairs so I re-entered
the maiden and returned  to the  basement.  The walls  there  had
loose bricks. I moved the bricks and made a hole.  Climbing  into
the hole, I found a secret crypt in  which was  a skeleton and on
the skeleton was a black pearl necklace - the missing treasure!

I returned to the sitting room to read the maid's note. It seemed
she  had found something dreadful while cleaning  someone's  room
(no  name was mentioned) and also said that she refused  to  stay
under the same roof where "things" were going on.  At the end  of
the  note  she said  that Jack might be interested to know that a
certain pet shop in Frobzance sells  more than  harmless puppies,
kittens and budgies. What could she mean?

I  decided  the time  had come  to do a bit of snooping so I went
round all the bedrooms and searched  them. In Tamara's room was a
jewellery case containing an earring and the earring had a  jewel
missing.

Just then Tamara came in and was justifiably  annoyed at  finding
me searching her room. I apologised and showed the jewel to  her.
She flinched a little but said she didn't recognise it but when I
found  the  jewel fitted  the earring  perfectly,  I knew I had a 
strong piece of evidence.


Leaving  Tamara's  room, I noticed everyone was getting  ready to
go to  bed and I  decided to  explore the  secret  passages I had
found earlier. Close to the  entrance to  my bedroom, I found the
ghost's costume  and a blow gun. The costume had red hairs on  it
just  like  Tamara's! It  looked as  though  my friend was deeply
involved in something shady.

I  returned  to her room via the secret passages and looked under
the bed.  I found a  journal  which had  in it a description of a
black pearl necklace  and also  a receipt  which was from the pet
shop in Frobzance. It  was a receipt for the purchase of an adder
and had Iris's name viciously crossed out.

I  woke and  accused Tamara.  Bolitho  dashed into the  room  and 
grabbed her and she confessed to fraud. It transpired that Tamara
was afraid that  Iris  was a  rival for Jack's  affection so  she
tried  to make it seem as  though Iris was the vengeful  "ghost",
bent on killing Jack's new love, Tamara.