Another Lifeless Planet..& Me With No Beer - SynTax disk PD 264
                   Author - Dennis Drew

                Solution by Bev Truter on PC

You start beside a large, apparently bottomless hole.  Get
small-stone (no, it won't accept "stone" as the input), S to small
bush, X it, get fruit, X fruit. (You can eat this fruit as often
as you need to, and still retain it in your inventory - perhaps
you've picked a limitless supply??) N, W, U to top of tree, where
you can see a spaceship and alien monster in the distance.  D, X
tree, X trunk, X door, open door, X buttons, push Little.  This
activates the panel and you hear a distant humming and crackling
from the shaft. Hang around until a frog leaps out, then go E and
D the bottomless shaft; you float gently down, and it turns out
not to be bottomless after all....

From the bottom of the shaft go SW to the Control Room, where you
see a computer.  X computer and read the instructions for getting
the codeword to activate the teleport system, which will enable
you to leave the bottom of the shaft in all the other directions.
(The word is "obnoxious").  NE, W, S, E to the Plush Room.  X desk
and get Zapper and X it. W, N, N to Shaft.  You will need the
Zapper for the next section, as this is the boring bit where you
have to kill the monsters by repeating "attack" incessantly until
they die.  Only kill the monsters which have something you need,
as you can't kill them all and survive.  But first a small detour,
as you might need a container....

S, N, answer "No" to the question "Are you an Alien?", E, where
you slip on the Store Room floor (it's greasy) and bring a rack of
jars tumbling down. Get jar, get grease, W, S, S to Shaft.  E to
High-Tech area, get shield-device, E, kill Air-Squid, S, kill
Glisher, E kill Brain-Snuffer (WHO thinks up these names??).  X
dead monster, X claws, get key. W, N, W, N, kill the BEM, U to
Corridor of Green Slime.  X all the forms of slime, get slimeball.
D, S, W, (kill Spider), N (kill Dragon), W (kill Monster). X
monster, X oil, get oil.  E, S, D to Blitherbeast.  Kill beast and
it leaves behind some propellant. U, E, NE to Shaft.

S to Central Passage, SW to Room with terrible Odour and hole in
the floor.  (Save a game here). Enter hole to land in a stinking
room, with yet another monster to kill - this time around the
shield-device appears not to work, so at some stage of the fight
eat fruit, then continue the fray refreshed. S to Garbage Room, X
trash to find leg springs, X springs, wear springs.  X dust, brush
dust, X dust again to get relic. N, U - you jump up the small hole
to land in the SE room with the bones. NW, N, W to room with Alien
and Toolbox.  Open toolbox, X tools - not very helpful, so take a
few guesses at the possible contents of a toolbox.  (hammer and
chisel).  N, W to Recreation Centre, X everything and note
bookshelves. Guess what would possibly be on a bookshelf?? (Get
book).  E, S, E, S, S to Shaft.  (Due to the rather ponderous
nature of this game, it's handy to do all the "Saves" in the
Shaft).

N, D, E, N, E to a secured access way, where a guard blocks the
way South.  X guard (he looks thin....) then offer fruit to the
guard and he will let you pass, and tells you about a construction
manual that will help you.....W, N to the Library.  Sit, X book,
read book (you discover it will be difficult to understand, even
with a dictionary). This is a clue - there must be one here, even
though you can't see it!  Get dictionary, read book to find a
manual on how to build a Jetpack.  Read manual - it tells you
about "Assembling and Igniting a Jetpack". X relic, and the manual
informs you it's a harness for a jetpack. S, S, W, W, N to an
artificial-looking area and a rusted door, which blocks your way
North.  X door, X handle, X hinges; oil door, handle and hinges,
open door, go N to a room in disrepair with a large door on the W
wall.  The forcefield to your North has been de-activated, and you
can now exit N if you wish.  X door, unlock door, open door, W to
a rather dark room and then N to the Trophy Room.

In Trophy Room, X case, X trophies, break glass, X trophies again
and you see a tube amongst all the other trophies.  X the tube and
the manual tells you it's a power-tube for a jetpack, get
power-tube. S, E, S, S, E, E, N, E, S to the Pedestal Room.  On
the pedestal is a cylinder covered by a dome, and a keyboard.  You
have to enter the correct code number to activate the dome, so X
keyboard, you find key #7 is more worn than the rest; push 7, the
dome lifts up, look, and you find a power-cylinder. Go South to a
dimly-lit room with a sign which translates as "SEWUD" if you have
the invaluable English/Alien dictionary.  This is indeed the way
through the maze, but don't go rushing through without examining
everything you see. Go E, E, N to a natural limestone cave, get
limestone. Then S, E, S, E to a cave lit by phosphorous on the
walls.  Get phosphorous. If you stumble across a skeleton, there's
nothing in, on, or under it - the whole point of this maze is to
get the 2 "natural elements". W to a chilly cave, U to a strange
maze, then D to the dimly-lit room.  Now to start thinking about
that Jetpack......

Assemble jetpack, wear jetpack. Go N, N, W, S, W, U, S to Shaft. W
to the Deserted Room where there's a hole high up one wall, way
out of reach. Ignite jetpack to zoom up to a room with a hole in
the floor and runes on the wall.

N to Empty Room, E to Statue Room.  X statue and pull its arm to
open a door in the statue's belly. X door and you see a pill, get
pill, X pill, read pill (the 3 letters written on it are RNA). Eat
pill to vastly expand your knowledge and understanding.  W, S,
ignite jetpack to get down to the Deserted Room, then N to Shaft.
Nearly there now.........

Ignite jetpack to rise up the Shaft to the ground above, then go W
and get the frog. E, N, and the Alien won't gobble you up while
you have the frog. N, and he will let you pass as you are holding
his favourite food, a slimeball.  At the palm-tree X tree (it's a
pun-palm) and figure out a way to make it laugh, otherwise you
can't pass it to the North. "Grease palm", which the tree finds
uproariously funny and convulses with laughter, and go N to where
the rocket-ship stands.  Ignite jetpack to carry you up into the
ship. Close hatch. X hopper, which has 2 vials for 2 natural
elements and a slot for the power cylinder.  X button - it reads
Start.  Insert limestone, phosphorous and power-cylinder, push
Start.  The ship blasts off, and you have escaped from the planet
and are on your way home. The End!


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