The Hound of Shadow - Electronic Arts (Part 2A) (Information compiled by John R. Barnsley) @~Continued from the last issue of SynTax. This file is the @~Father Paul solution which is the harder of the two endings to @~complete. GO TO THE MUSEUM - (Go to the Readers Admissions Office - West from the Reading Room entrance) - GIVE THE LETTER TO THE CLERK - (You give the letter that you received from the British Museum to the clerk, and he gives you a lifetime pass for the Reading Room. Enter the Reading Room and find an empty desk) - GET BRIDEWELL - (The press mark tells you that the book has to be ordered from the Book Request Desk) - REQUEST BRIDEWELL - after a wait, the book is delivered to your desk) - READ NAMELESS CULTS - (You learn that the pattern in your attic is called a 'Gate', which is used to travel and return instantaneously, and that the Dragon's Head or Tail shows if the Gate opens outward or inward. Now, knowing about magical 'Gates' and their uses.......) - GO TO THE FLAT - GO TO THE ATTIC - (Where the magical Gate is) - USE THE GATE - (You find yourself in Matthew Talbot's bedroom!) - SEARCH - (You find another Gate in the lounge) - USE THE GATE - (This transports you to the churchyard at Blythburgh, where you meet Father Paul Mason. He asks, "Did you create this gate?") - NO - ("Then who did?") - MAGDA BATHORY - (You tell Father Paul of the events that have brought you here, and he suggests that you go back to London and find out the nature of the Beast that killed Talbot and to write to him, care of the Post Office. Using the gates, go back to your attic, then......) GO TO THE SHOP - ENTER THE SHOP - READ THE GASCOIGNE JOURNAL - (Marcus lets you read the whole journal. You find a reference to 'The Plateau Of Leng', a book by von Juntz) - ASK ABOUT LENG - (Marcus says that it is spoken of in Bridewell's 'Nameless Cults') - GO TO THE MUSEUM - (Enter the Reading Room, and after finding an empty desk.......) - REQUEST BRIDEWELL - (It is delivered to your desk again) - READ NAMELESS CULTS - (You find the mention of the 'Plateau Of Leng', and it goes on to explain about the Hound. John, who has been reading along with you, talks about Worlsman, the creature he encountered in San Francisco, and how he managed to kill him, but he cannot see how that will help us now with Magda Bathory. John asks, "What can we do?") - DESTROY HER - (John explains that Worlsman's secret was that he made an homunculus, that took any attack on himself and kept him safe) - CAN WE DESTROY MAGDA BATHORY - (John thinks it unlikely, and even if we did, the Hound would still carry out the curse on you, but maybe there is a way you could survive it?) - MAKE AN HOMUNCULUS - (John says, "Yes! I think you are right! It would trick the Hound into destroying that and you would come to no harm". You have now learned about the Beast, and what you must do to decoy it and save yourself) - GO TO THE FLAT - (In your lounge......) - WRITE TO FATHER PAUL MASON - (You write to Father Paul, telling him of your plan to make an homunculus, and hoping he can help). [FROM NOW ON, IT IS JUST A MATTER OF KILLING TIME UNTIL YOU HEAR FROM FATHER PAUL MASON. THIS WILL LAST FOR THE REST OF THIS SIXTH DAY, AND ALL OF THE SEVENTH DAY. THESE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS YOU CAN DO...........] GO TO A PUB, GO TO THE CINEMA, GO TO THE MUSEUM (Where you can read other books, for example....) (READ ABOUT MAGDA BATHORY) (GET BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY) (GET SABINE) (READ ABOUT VLAD TEPES) (Or in the evening......) GO TO THE WEST END (To a Nightclub) YOU COULD ALSO SPEED THINGS UP AND 'WAIT' THE TIME AWAY BY 'WAIT TILL NINE' - 'GO TO BED' - 'WAIT TILL NOON'..........AND SO ON UNTIL THE MORNING THE LETTER ARRIVES. EIGHTH DAY (When the letter from Father Paul finally arrives, he says that he deeply regrets that he has to withdraw his offer of help. John says that if he won't come to us, then we must go to him. Go to Liverpool Street Station by underground train, get a ticket from the Booking Office, and when you are on the platform for East Anglia........) - WAIT FOR TRAIN - (When the train pulls in....) - GET ON THE TRAIN - (Then keep WAITing until you get to Blythburgh. Go South into the village, and enter the Black Dog Inn) - ASK ABOUT FATHER PAUL - (You are told to ask at the Post Office, so go to the Post Office). ASK ABOUT FATHER PAUL - (The Postmistress is reluctant to tell you) - PERSUADE and BLUFF - (repeatedly, until she gives you the directions to Father Paul's cottage. Leave the Post Office and go south to the cottage) - KNOCK ON THE DOOR - (Father Paul lets you in, but says, "I cannot help you. It would be wrong of me".) - WHY WOULD IT BE WRONG - (Father Paul talks about not having to purge himself, as yet, of the Sin of Pride) - WHAT IS THE SIN OF PRIDE - (He tells you about his duties as a missionary in Haiti, and that the knowledge he gained was dangerous) - WHY WAS IT DANGEROUS - (He says that he was forced to learn their magics, which left him prey to a great temptation) - WHAT WAS THE TEMPTATION - (He explains that the temptation was to use their superstitions, but would it be for good and not evil?) - PERSUADE FATHER PAUL - (You finally manage to persuade Father Paul to help you, so he gives you a manuscript which tells you the ingredients of an homunculus, and how to make it. Father Paul tells you to go and make your homunculus, and return to him with it) - GO TO THE INN - (Enter the Black Dog Inn, and....) - ASK FOR A ROOM - (The landlord takes you up to a room). MAKING THE HOMUNCULUS LOOK UNDER THE BED - (You find a chamber pot) - GET THE CHAMBER POT - GET WATER - (You pour some water into the pot from a water jug) - NORTH - (To the landing, where you....) - GET MERCURY - (You take the barometer from the wall) - DOWN - EAST - (To the Bar, where you.....) - GET SALT - (The barmaid gives you a salt cellar) - GET SULPHUR - (You get a box of matches) - WEST - (Outside the Black Dog Inn) - GET CLAY - (You get some from a field) - GET HAIR - (You cut a few strands from your hair) - GET NAILS - (You trim your nails) - GET BLOOD - (The fresh cut on your arm will do) - MAKE HOMUNCULUS - (You make your homunculus, and then return to Father Paul). THE COMING OF THE HOUND (Father Paul examines your homunculus, and says that it has the image of your soul, but is weaker. As the Hound will attack the stronger of the two, Father Paul teaches you how to calm your soul, making you weaker. You then all go to the Church, as this is the place of power) - DROP THE HOMUNCULUS - (This is very important, as holding the homunculus will put you as one with it, so when the Hound attacks, both you and the homunculus will perish instead of decoying the Hound with a scapegoat. It is time to take your place, so remembering what Father Paul taught you for calming your soul, you......) - RELAX - (the Hound arrives, and satisfies its lust for destruction on your homunculus and leaving you unharmed, but in doing so, takes the life of Father Paul Mason, and badly injures John). YOU HAVE SURVIVED THE HOUND OF SHADOW, BUT TO WHAT COST..?