Might and Magic IV:Clouds of Xeen Part 6

                   Solution by Alex van Kaam

@~Continued from Issue 31

And so it was, as we entered Ebenezer greeted us and told us that
they were just finished, we first did some training and sold some
items and after that we entered our dungeon.

            ------------> Chapter fifteen <------------

              ------------> Xeen Slayer <------------

It was a small dungeon and we easily covered it, we found a lot of
poison potions and four potions of the Gods.  And in the middle of
the dungeon we found Xeen Slayer, I took the sword and we left the
dungeon.  We got some food and headed up into the clouds of
Darzog's tower.

As we entered we were attacked by cloud golems and rocs, we
killed them and found two roc nests, we destroyed the nests and
got 50000 Xp. points.

We also found four statues, they had the following written
on them:       "In clouds above island tower"
               "waits lord Xeen his final hour"

               "Only the sword Xeen's life can take"
               "all his plans of war unmate"

               "Advisor will a dig permit"
               "five coins more you must submit"

               "Taxman becomes a faithful vassal"
               "Xeen's bane lies under castle"

To the north we found a sign saying "Xeen 9N", it was very lucky
we still had the gem of transportation otherwise we had to find a
guild in another city which had this transportation spell.  Anyway
we cast the spell and headed 9 squares north.  We came to a sign
saying "Now entering Xeendom".

We first headed east and found a sign saying "Xeen's aviary",
behind this sign there were a lot of rocs and also about six roc
nests, we killed the rocs and destroyed their nests for a lot of
extra Xp.

Next we headed west and came to five tents, in the first I, being
the super character from all the potions and stuff, won a Might
doll for 100 Gp.  In the second tent I won a Speed doll for 1000
Gp.

In the third tent I won an Accuracy doll for 100 Gems and in the
fourth tent I won an Endurance doll for 10 Gems.

We took all the dolls to the fifth tent and got a Lord Xeen cupie
doll in return.  From here we headed north/east and soon came to
Lord Xeen's castle.

            ------------> Chapter sixteen <------------

             ------------> Xeen's castle <------------

As we entered we found ourselves in an empty courtyard, we decided
to head west first, we soon came to the south/west tower and
entered.  This tower was infested with Xeen's guards which we
couldn't hit with our normal weapons so we all cast some combat
spells, Roodhaar and Gandalf cast Fireball and the rest of us
cast Sparks.  This soon took care of them and on top of this
tower we found a fire generator, we destroyed it and earned 200000
Xp.  As we headed down the tower we were again attacked by those
Xeen guards, again we killed them and left the tower.

Outside we made camp to raise our magic-points back up and the
next morning we headed north.

We encountered a few more guards which we killed with some
fireballs and spark spells, all this spell casting used up our
magic points a lot so we rested quite a lot.

In the north/west corner we found a cold generator which we
destroyed for 200000 Xp.  From here we headed east killing a few
more guards and finding a poison generator in the north/east
corner.  Next we headed south and came to the south/east tower, we
climbed up, killing some more guards and we found a electricity
generator, we destroyed this one also and earned another 200000
Xp.

We had now cleaned the whole castle except for the building in the
middle, we entered and came to a large empty room with some stairs
leading up.

We took the stairs and came to level 2, this one was also empty
and we headed up the stairs to level 3.

Again this level was empty and we headed down the other stairs
back to level 2, here we found some more stairs leading up to
another part of level 3, we climbed the stairs and came to level
3. Here we found some stairs leading up to level 4.  We climbed
the stairs and soon came to a gate with a guard behind it, we
killed him and as we entered through the gate we were attacked by
Xeen's pet.

We didn't take any chances and I used the scroll of star bursts I
had left in my inventory, Xeen's pet was immediately destroyed and
this is how I got the name Dragonslayer.

In this small room we found a guard generator we also destroyed
and a door leading west.  As we entered through the door we saw
Lord Xeen in the distance.  We didn't want to give him any
advantage so Nomad used his gem of teleportation to teleport us 3
squares to the west, right on the same spot as Lord Xeen was.

Lord Xeen cast a spell and Nomad was dead, I equipped the sword
Xeen Slayer and attacked Lord Xeen.

Xeen replied with a spell that eradicated Gandalf, next was
Roodhaar, she used a potion of the gods that resurrected Nomad.  I
gave the sword Xeen Slayer to Rak*el and she hit Lord Xeen, Rak*el
gave the sword to Gothmog and he delivered the final blow to Lord
Xeen.

At last he was dead, the man who wanted to conquer our world.

We examined his room and found the Sixth Mirror, as we wanted to
approach, the sceptre of Lord Xeen, which we took when Gothmog
killed him, emitted a pitched whine, this got stronger and
stronger and before we knew the mirror was destroyed and the
castle began to collapse.

We quickly left the castle and headed back down to the land of
Xeen, here we were greeted by king Burlock and Crodo.  They
thanked us and told us our destiny lay on the Darkside.

How completed that quest well.................

@~Next issue we will start the Darkside solution.

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