Shadowgate - Mindscape (Part 3)

  Solution supplied by The ST Adventurer's PD Library

@~The final part of the solution.

Enter and find a Sphinx and some weird drawings on the stair. (Get
yourself a pencil and make a note of the drawings....they are
clues to the positions of some levers that you will operate
later.......the BOTTOM step shows the FIRST position of the
levers, and going UP the stairs will show the subsequent positions
that the levers should be in!).

The Sphinx will not let you pass unless you answer his riddle
correctly.  There are SIX possible riddles and the particular
object that the Sphinx wants you to bring is either the Horseshoe,
Skull, Broom, Bellows, Mirror or Map. The six possible riddles are
as follows:-

    "I at fires attend, am a kitchen friend,
     When my nose I blow, how the embers glow.
     When the wind compels, how my body swells".
    Answer = BELLOWS [OPERATE BELLOWS ON SPHINX]

    "First I was burnt, then I was beaten,
     Then I was drowned, then I was pierced with nails".
    Answer = HORSESHOE [OPERATE HORSESHOE ON SPHINX]

    "It has towns but no houses,
     It has forests but no trees,
     It has rivers but no fish".
    Answer = MAP  [OPERATE MAP ON SPHINX]

    "Long neck but no hands,
     Made of wood from a forest's nest,
     A hundred legs and I cannot stand,
     Against a wall I rest".
    Answer = BROOM  [OPERATE BROOM ON SPHINX]

    "Eyeless though I may be, Thro' me once a man did see,
     My form once thoughts did hold,
     Now I'm empty, white and cold".
    Answer = SKULL  [OPERATE SKULL ON SPHINX]

    "If you look at me, I look at you,
     You look with eye but I've none but your two,
     I speak with no voice when you ordain,
     For yours is the voice, my lips open in vain".
    Answer = MIRROR  [OPERATE MIRROR ON SPHINX]

Once you know which object the Sphinx is referring to, go out to
the Banquet Hall and get it then return to the Sphinx and OPERATE
that object on the SPHINX. You can now go up the stairs and the
Sphinx will vanish from the game.

After going up the stairs you will find yourself in an
Observatory. TAKE the SHOOTING STAR.  OPERATE the PICTURE that the
shooting star was in. A secret panel will open and reveal an IRON
ROD. TAKE the ROD. Go UP the LADDER.  OPERATE the SILVER ARROW on
the PRETTY GIRL. She turns into a dead Werewolf!  TAKE the THORN
and leave the arrow. Go back downstairs to the Banquet Hall. Go in
the door up the stairs to your left. OPEN the BOTTLE OF HOLY
WATER. Try to take the PLATINUM HORN. A Demon Dog will appear!!
Banish him to Hell with the Holy Water.

Go UP the LADDER. You will see a Wyvern. OPERATE the SHOOTING STAR
on the WYVERN.  When the sparks clear, TAKE the BLADED SUN. Go
DOWN, back to the Banquet Hall.

In the Banquet Hall, go through the bottom door. You will then see
a door to your right and another one to your left. Take the LEFT
door and go down the stairs. Leave the pot of gold alone. OPEN the
BAG. TAKE the LARGE COIN (with a well engraved on it) and one of
the SMALL COINS (with a skull on it).  On the stairs, notice the
flagpole hole. OPERATE the steel ROD on it.  It's a lightning rod!
A flash of lightning will occur and a hand comes out of the floor
and offers you a wand. TAKE the WAND. EXAMINE it and discover the
sign of the Serpent.

Go back to the Rope Bridge. Remove EVERYTHING from your Inventory
EXCEPT for the WAND and a TORCH. Cross the bridge. OPERATE the
WAND on the SNAKE.  TAKE the STAFF.  Cross back over the bridge
and pick up the rest of your Inventory.  Now go back to the rope
room (by crossing the other bridge). Go through the hole in the
centre. Place your remaining gem in the hole on the slab in the
centre. The Mage will give you a scroll called 'Wind Shadow'.

Go back to the Troll bridge. The old Troll reappears but now you
don't have a spear!  OPERATE the WIND SHADOW SCROLL on YOURSELF
and you'll be invisible.  You can now cross safely and go back to
the Banquet Hall and through the bottom door, but this time turn
RIGHT. You will see a Skeleton sitting on a Throne. He's missing
his Scepter! You have it!! OPERATE the SCEPTER on the SKELETON and
he now grasps it tightly.

OPERATE the PANEL to the RIGHT of the Throne. It slides up
revealing yet another gem-shaped hole.  Put the GEM-RING in it and
the Throne rises revealing a Secret Passageway. Go DOWN. TAKE the
TORCHES. DO NOT go left!  (or a slab will fall and kill you!!).
Take the other exit. You will see some Gargoyles.  Leave them
alone for now. Take the exit farthest to the right.  You will now
see a Statue in the centre of a pool of lava and another exit on
the other side of the lava.

You need a bridge! OPEN the BOOK that you got from the Library.
(You HAVE put your SPECTACLES back on, haven't you?!). OPERATE the
opened BOOK on the STATUE and a bridge will now be formed. Cross
the bridge. You will now be in a room with some levers. (Remember
that you were told to note down the positions that you had to
change them to?) Use those drawings now. OPERATE the LEVERS ONE AT
A TIME so that they are step by step in those EXACT positions.
(Operate the THIRD one, then the SECOND one, then the THIRD one
again).  Machinery will now operate and you will get a SILVER ORB!
You now have the STAFF OF LIFE!!

Return to the Gargoyles and blind them with the 'ILLUMUNARIS'
spell. Go through their door and you will be in the Well Room.
OPERATE the CRANK. The well will now open. OPERATE the LARGE COIN

on the WELL. A wind will come up. Go DOWN the WELL. The wind will
allow you to descend gracefully!

You will now be on the riverside. OPERATE the DRUMSTICK on the
GONG. The Ferryman arrives asking for his fare. OPERATE the SMALL
COIN on him. He says:  "Come aboard". Click 'GO' and then click on
the RAFT......not on the Ferryman!  He will now duly ferry you to
a room with a Skull Door. There will be three odd-shaped holes in
a panel. Just the same shape as the BLADED SUN!

PUT the SUN in the FIRST panel to your LEFT. OPERATE the PLATINUM
HORN. The horn blows and the Skull Door opens.

Go IN and you will see the Wizard with a Giant Behemoth!! OPERATE
the STAFF OF LIFE on the BEHEMOTH. Angered and banished below, the
Behemoth takes the Wizard with him and you have now successfully
completed SHADOWGATE!!