DARK SEED from Cyberdreams

                 Solution by Neil Shipman

The adventure takes place over three days and it is essential to
do certain things on certain days in a fairly linear fashion else
you're in for a gruesome ending!

It is only possible to examine and manipulate items, locations
and characters but, in order to make this walkthrough more
readable, I have used a more appropriate verb in place of
manipulate.

Day 1 :

You wake at 9 a.m. and start in your bedroom with just money in
your inventory
Go to the bathroom
Open mirrored cabinet (You take something for your headache)
Use the shower (You clean yourself up)
Go to the other bedroom
Examine trenchcoat (You wouldn't be caught dead in it)
Examine trenchcoat again (You see a bulge in the pocket)
Put hand in trenchcoat (You find a piece of paper)
Examine piece of paper (It's a library card for Tolkien's Lord of
the Rings)
Go to the landing
Climb ladder to the attic room
Examine front of trunk (It's locked with a rusty padlock)
Open trunk (You can't)
Examine side of trunk (There's a sturdy handle)
Push trunk twice
Pick up the watch which had been hidden by the trunk
Examine watch (Now you can check the time whenever you want)
[When the watch stops working just wind it up]
Push trunk once more to open the way to the balcony
Go to the living room
Examine the note on the mirror (It tells you about the broken
corner and mentions the garage)
Go to the entrance hall
Answer the door when the doorbell rings at 10 a.m. (The postman
delivers a package containing a doll which changes into an alien
creature and back again as you look at it, but you can't keep it)
Go outside the front door
Examine newspaper (It tells about the recent crime wave and how
residents are afraid to venture outdoors after dark)
Go to the garage
Open the trunk of the car
Examine trunk (You see a crowbar)
Get crowbar
Go to the entrance hall (The phone should now be ringing)
Go to your bedroom
Answer phone (It's a call from Sue at the library about a book on
hold for you)
Go to the attic room
Prise trunk with crowbar to open it
Examine trunk (You find a diary)
Get diary
Examine diary (It tells about fear of the Ancients on the Other
Side and about moving the mirror to the garage)
Go to the living room
Examine clock (There's a plaque inside which you can't read)
Open clock (You can't because it's locked)
Go through the kitchen to the cellar
Examine wine bottles and barrel (Booze is obviously important)
Go into town and enter Klug's Food Market
Give money to shopkeeper
Get bottle of scotch (Your neighbour Delbert, a lawyer, comes in
and introduces himself. He suggests a meeting outside your house
at 6 p.m. the following day and gives you one of his cards)
Examine card (It's a "Get out of jail free" card)
Go to the library
Talk to clerk (She gives you the book kept on hold for you. It
tells you to tune in to the right station for a dependable word
from a concerned friend)
Give library card to clerk (She tells you it's for the book with
the green cover in aisle C)
Examine the floor in front of her desk (You find a hairpin)
Get hairpin (hairpin = bobby pin)
Pick up bobby pin
Go to the bookstacks and enter aisle C
Examine green book (Middle of bottom shelf - You find a scrap of
paper)
Examine piece of paper (It says that Tuttle swallowed the clock
key just before suffering a stroke and it tells you how to enter
the Tuttle mausoleum)
Go back past your house, into the cemetery and up to the wall
outside the Tuttle mausoleum
Push left button, push top button, push right button (The door
slides open)
Enter the mausoleum and go to the urns on the shelves
Open Joe Tuttle's urn (Bottom left one - You get the clock key)
Go to the living room
Open clock with key (The plaque inside refers to John McKeegan)
Go to the study
Examine blueprint (You see the layout of your house which shows
two secret passages)
Get blueprint
Examine east wall of study (It seems hollow)
Open east wall door and enter the lower secret room
Climb ladder to the upper secret room
Get rope
Open door and enter your bedroom
Go to the balcony
Examine gargoyle and tie rope to it (This now provides a way in
and out of the house other than the front door)
Go to your bedroom
Go to bed (between 5 and 10 p.m.) and have a nightmare!

Day 2 :

Go to the bathroom
Open mirrored cabinet (You take something for your headache)
Use the shower (You clean yourself up)
Go to the entrance hall
Answer the door when the doorbell rings at 10 a.m. (The postman
delivers a package containing the broken shard of mirror)
Go to the garage and enter the car
Turn on the radio ("What you do in the light is reflected in the
dark. Leave some doors open before crossing over.")
Open glove compartment
Get gloves
Go to the study and open secret door
Go to your bedroom and open secret door
Go to the living room
Put mirror shard in mirror
Go through mirror into the Dark World
Go to the alien study
Examine plan (It's for a gruesome experiment on a human - YOU!)
Go through open secret door
Go onto ramp (You're sucked to another place)
Go through open secret door to the platform above the alien
landscape
[The binoculars can be used to view the alien landscape from this
platform and also to see your balcony from the top of the
mausoleum in the Normal World, but they're not necessary]
Pull lever between doors while wearing gloves (It opens the alien
front door)
Go to the alien front door and go outside
Go west to the alien cemetery
Get shovel
Return to the Normal world
Go to the garage and enter the car
Turn on radio ("Turn yourself in and leave behind the key which
will only work in the dark world.")
[N.B. The radio only seems to give this message for the first 20
mins of each hour, starting at 2 p.m. If you're too early leave
the car, advance time using the 'T' key and try again.]
Go to the farthest grave
Examine grave (It's J. McKeegan's)
Dig grave with shovel (You dig up a casket and find some diary
pages)
Examine pages (They tell (1) about the previous owner bringing
back something which if made into a tool will break the mirror,
(2) about the enemies underestimating how strongly events in this
world affect things in the other, (3) that the car keys are
hidden in a special place and (4) that the police station is
mirrored in the Dark World)
Go to your house (A policeman standing outside arrests you and
puts you in jail)
Hide money, gloves and bobby pin under pillow
Get cup
Rattle bars of cell with cup (A guard appears)
Give Delbert's card to guard (He releases you)
Get gun
Go to the side of your house and advance the time to 6 p.m.
(Delbert appears and tells you to follow him)
Follow Delbert into his yard (He's throwing a stick for his dog)
Give scotch to Delbert (The dog runs off and Delbert follows)
Get stick
Go to the Dark World
Go outside alien front door
Go east to alien creature
Throw stick in abyss (The creature leaps after it)
Cross over the bridge and enter the alien police station (The
alien cop sees his gun, takes everything you're carrying and puts
you in a cell)
Retrieve your belongings (i.e. money, gloves and bobby pin) from
under the pillow
Pick lock twice with bobby pin to escape
Examine prisoner (He's Sargo and he offers you the gift of
invisibility in exchange for freedom if you'll help him)
Give bobby pin to Sargo (He gives you an invisibility headband)
Go to the creature outside the alien library and SAVE your
position because the headband only works for a short while
Wear headband to pass creature and enter the alien library
Turn on the access screen
Examine screen (It's the Keeper of the Scrolls. She tells you (1)
about the embryo implanted in your brain, (2) that if it's born
it will destroy you and all mankind, (3) that you must find the
Ancients' power source and destroy it and (4) that the police in
your world are under the control of the Ancients and must be
avoided. She then gives you something)
Exit the alien library past the creature before the headband
stops working
Check inventory and examine new item (It's a microfiche card)
Return to the Normal World
Go to your bedroom
Go to bed (between 5 and 10 p.m.) and have another nightmare!

Day 3 :

Go to the bathroom
Open mirrored cabinet (You take something for your headache)
Use the shower (You clean yourself up)
Go to the entrance hall
Answer the door when the doorbell rings at 10 a.m. (The postman
delivers a package containing an axe handle)
Go to the library
Turn on the viewer
Put microfiche card in viewer (You are told about hiding objects
under flagstones in cellars)
Go to Klug's Food Market
Give money to shopkeeper
Get bottle of scotch
Go to the cellar (via the rope if necessary to avoid the
policeman who might be outside your front door by now)
Examine floor (You see a loose flagstone with a hole in it)
Get loose rock (rock = flagstone)
Examine floor again (You see a set of keys)
Get keys
Go to the living room and SAVE your position because there are
two ways of finishing from here depending on how quick you can be

1  The slow method :

Go to the Dark World
Go to the alien cemetery, past where you found the shovel and
past the Ancients in suspended animation to the chamber with the
power source
Put rock in power nexus underneath computer (It warms up)
Join warm rock and axe handle (You make a glowing hammer)
Return to the Normal World
Answer the phone when it rings ("Remember, anything seen in the
mirror is not real. Only the mirror itself is real.")
Go to the garage (via the rope to avoid the policeman outside
your front door)
Pour scotch into gas tank
[You could SAVE your position here in case you're extremely slow,
but there is really plenty of time once you've started the car]
Enter the car
Turn keys in ignition (The car starts)
Go to the Dark World (via the rope)
Go to the alien spaceship
Pull lever while wearing gloves (The start up sequence begins)
Exit the spaceship (The game now takes over from you. You stand
and watch as the spaceship takes off, then you're returned to the
Normal World)
Break mirror with hammer (The game takes over again. You answer
the front door and are greeted by Sue from the library with some
pills for your headaches! She briefly changes into the Keeper of
the Scrolls and you're just beginning to understand. The house
goes up for sale and that's the end of the adventure!)

2  The quick method :

Go to the garage (via the rope to avoid the policeman outside
your front door)
Pour scotch into gas tank
[SAVE your position here just in case you're not quick enough]
Enter the car
Turn keys in ignition (The car starts)
Go to the Dark World (via the rope)
Go to the alien cemetery, past where you found the shovel and
past the Ancients in suspended animation to the chamber with the
power source
Put rock in power nexus underneath computer (It warms up)
Join warm rock and axe handle (You make a glowing hammer)
Go to the alien spaceship
Pull lever while wearing gloves (The start up sequence begins)
Exit the spaceship (The game now takes over from you. You stand
and watch as the spaceship takes off, then you're returned to the
Normal World)
Break mirror with hammer (The game takes over again. You answer
the front door and are greeted by Sue from the library with some
pills for your headaches! She briefly changes into the Keeper of
the Scrolls and you're just beginning to understand. The house
goes up for sale and that's the end of the adventure!)