Shards of Time - Titan Games
                  (Continued from Issue 4 of SynTax)

                    contributed by Graham Wheeler
2. 14th Century

From Time Bubble:  E (you are now in 14th century)
Read signpost
SE, IN
Examine debris (you get a coin)
OUT, NE, NE, N, N, W
Pray
Get candle (priest sees you pray and lets you take the candle)
E, S, S, E, N
Talk to landlord
Buy wine with coin (you are back outside and have an empty bottle)
N, E
Light candle (at fire)
Examine utensils (you get a cleaver and pot)
Hit door with pot (landlord throws you out but you keep items)
Examine pump
Pull handle (capsule opens)
Get mask and skinsuit
Wear mask and skinsuit
W, N, N, W
Open trapdoor
D
Get wax
UP
Put wax in priests ears
E, UP
Cut rope with cleaver (priest doesn't stop you as he can't hear
the bells)
D
Get rope
W, D
Turn sconce 8 clockwise
S (tunnel is blocked by soil)
E
Get barrel
W, N, UP, E, S, S
Drop barrel
E, E, NE
Cut net with cleaver (you get the net)
SW, SE
Examine beacon (it contains oil)
Fill bottle with oil
NW, W, W
Get barrel
SW, SW
Examine well (the rope and bucket are missing)
Tie rope to handle
D (the chute is full of mud from a weak roof)
Dig mud with pot
Put barrel in chute (it supports the roof but it's in your way!)
Chop barrel with cleaver (you remove top and bottom so you can
get through)
NE
Examine channel (it's blocked by a boulder)

Move boulder (the water goes down - a large rat appears but you 
can't kill it yet so you must retreat)
SW (you climb back up the well)
NE
Drop all
Remove mask
Remove skinsuit
Drop all
Teleport
E (back into 14th century but now tide is out)
Get all
Wear mask and skinsuit
NE, S
Examine corpse (your agent; you get hypodermic needle and notes)
Read notes
Drop notes
N, E, E, D
Examine grille (it's rusted)
Oil hinges (you can now go west when you need to)
UP, W
Drop pot and cleaver (don't go into inn carrying them)
N, E
Light candle
W, S
Get cleaver and pot
W (soldier is still not there but he will come back if you enter
church)
N, N, S, S (he's back)
Empty bottle (oil makes the road slippery)
Attack soldier (he falls and is knocked out)
Get mace
Get hook
E, E, D, W (into drainage tunnel)
W, N, N (this section stinks)
Examine stench (it is from the west wall)
Hit wall with mace
Wait (for some of the air to clear)
W (ignore second grille, it won't open)
S, S (the west tunnel is flooded)

W (you use the hook to pull yourself along but you get short of
air)
Breathe bottle (you get enough air to continue)
W (you see a large green rat, if he bites you, inject self)
Put net in submerged tunnel (so rat can't escape)
Kill rat with mace
Cut rat with cleaver (a green crystal is inside it)
Get net
E, N, N, E, S, S, E, E, UP, W, W, SW
Teleport (back to time bubble)
Drop crystal (second shard collected)

Note: Drunken soldier goes away after you visit the beacon; he
returns if you enter the church.
Note: To find drainage tunnels down from harbour, you need to
teleport away then return so that the tide is out.
Note: Don't go into the inn with the cleaver or pot; you will
lose them.

@~The final part will be in the next issue of SynTax.