Nirvana - SynTax disk PD 174
                 Author - Wimsey Games

              Solution by Bev Truter on PC

You can "go left", "go right" and "go ahead" in Nirvana, but I
preferred to use the conventional NSE and W.

The opening location is in a Cottage.  You have a brown sack
(closed) and can hear meowing from outside the closed window.
There is a bottle on the table and a closed oak door S, or behind
you.  Get bottle, X bottle (closed with a brown cork).  Get cork,
open sack (you see a brown crust).  When Mrs.  Hubbard appears,
talk to her about Nirvana to find out more about your quest.  When
there's a knock on the door the meowing stops, and she suggests
you open the window. Open window, then wait until she unlocks and
opens the oak door for you. Go S to the Garden, where you can talk
to her son Ben who has been changed to an old man by the wicked
Nirvana.  When a rabbit appears get rabbit, put rabbit in sack,
close sack.

Go S to a Path, and W to the End of Path if you want to have a
look at the old bridge, waterfall and gorge. Then E, E to the Path
up bald Mt. where you see an Alpenhorn. Don't blow it yet.  N to
the palace, where you can admire Nirvana's handiwork on the
surrounding fence.  Open opal gate, N to the Garden, open oak
door, N to the Great Hall. You can't open the teak door to your
left yet, as it's locked from the other side. Open the cork door
to the E, where Nirvana's two Hounds confront you.  Open sack, get
rabbit (it jumps out of your grasp and disappears) and the hounds
will chase after it.  N to the Landing, open maple door to the E,
go E to the Balcony which overlooks Nirvana's Spa.  You see a pool
and a pagoda, X the pool and note it's geometrical shape and size.
W, S to Great Hall, E to Nirvana's Spa.

There are 2 planks here, one ebony and one pine, both 14' long.  X
pool and you see a corner. Drop all, get ebony plank, put ebony
plank across corner. Get pine plank, go ebony plank, put pine
plank between island and ebony plank. You will need a key before
crossing to the Island.  So get all, W, N, open pine door, W to
Nirvana's Parlour.  Listen to the Macaw until it reveals where a
jade key is hidden, and wait until Nirvana opens a window before
going E, S, S, S, S to the Alpenhorn.  Blow horn then wait until
the avalanche carries you to the foot of the mountain on a Narrow
Ledge.

Go N to The Hall of the Mountain King, and talk to him to discover
more about Nirvana. He gives you magic spectacles and a jar full
of glow-worms ("take" both items when he offers them to you).  You
will have to wait until he tells you about the ear and allows you
to move E to an Enormous Ear.  Speak to the ear, it tells you to
come in, enter ear (or go E) to the Ear Canal.  you see a Boat on
the shore of an Underground Lake, X boat (you see a bunghole), put
cork in bunghole, launch boat, enter boat, get oar.  You are
floating on the Lake, and all directions except S take you around
in a circle. Go S to Stream which flows past the Garden, E, N to
Cottage.

From inside the Cottage you hear the meowing again, so open window
to be magically transported to Nirvana's Bedroom (W of the Great
Hall).  The cat transforms itself into Nirvana, but she can't harm
you as you have the magic spectacles. Open box, get key, open teak
door, E, E to Spa. Go ebony plank or E to cross to the Island,
then E to enter Pagoda. You see a glass dome, X dome (it's locked
and contains a crytal bell).  Unlock dome, open dome.  (You hear a
grate somewhere being opened, which releases piranha into the
swimming-pool - just as well you used the planks and didn't try to
swim!) Get bell, W, W (or go pine plank), W to Great Hall, where
Nirvana and her Hounds are descending the stairs.  Ring bell,
Nirvana shatters apart and disappears, and you have completed the
game!  I re-did this game several times, but always ended with a
score of 93/100 - haven't a clue where the missing 7% is.







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