DEATH GATE - Legend - Part 1

                   Solution by The Grue!

Talk to Xar then ask him about his plan. Now take one of the
glowlamps and go to your ship. Cast rune transfer on marker and
then transfer the marker onto the steering stone. Use steering
stone to fly to Arianus.

                        SCORE 15pts

ARIANUS
Go into the cave and take the shirt, bread, marmalade and pipe
fitting. Go to Limbeck's room and take cork and put shirt in ink.
Put marmalade on bread (three times) and give it to Limbeck. Now
take the paper/map from the floor and go to Rockdigger and get
the two pipe fittings.

Go to the sleeping dwarf and cast heat on the sensor, now go to
the elf ship.  On the elf ship go down and talk to the Duke, who
will give you a ring to give to his brother on Uylandia. Go back
upstairs into the wizard's cabin and take the wine jug. Return to
your ship and use the steering wheel to fly to King Stephen's
castle.

At the castle talk to the sentries and then give them the ring.
Once inside tell the king how you got the ring, once you are back
outside the castle go to the west. Take the shear and lift the bar
on the window shutter with it. Open the shutter and go inside,
after watching a cut scene you will end up outside again. Go back
inside and take the candlestick holder and look at the books (You
will take one of them). Cast create reality pocket on the
tapestry, then enter the tapestry. Give the wine jug to the wizard
and talk to him until he shows you the shroud of darkness spell.

Return to Drevlin and give the candlestick holder to Limbeck, who
will give you another pipe fitting. Go to the sleeping dwarf again
and cast heat on the sensor and go to the elf ship. Go back
upstairs to the wizard's cabin and cast shroud of darkness on the
black shirt, then place the black shirt on the figurines. Now
quickly go below decks, you will be able to hide in a hidden store
room.

In the store room open the box to find a zinger, activate the
zinger to signal King Stephen and his troops. Once rescued ask the
king for a reward (information) now talk to him. You will now fly
to Skurvash.

                        SCORE 120pts

Go into Skurvash town and examine the doll. A small boy will ask
you to go and get his doll from the alley, say yes and enter the
alley. You will get caught in a net. Cast swap on street rat and
then talk to him. Agree to release him and follow him into the
tunnel. Take the pry bar and talk to the street rat again.

Return to the store room on the elf ship and break the lock on the
chest with the pry bar. Open the chest and take the pipe fitting
and the jewel sack.  Go into the tavern and talk to the bartender
and sell him the jewel sack. Hugh the Hand will approach you. Talk
to him and agree to join the Brotherhood, he will ask you to kill
a merchant and bring his magic amulet back as proof of his death.

Go back to the street rat and give him the money, wait until he
returns with some information and a lock pick. Now go to the
merchant's house and use lock pick on lock.
Push lock pick - clack
Jiggle lock pick - tick
Turn lock pick - thunk
The door opens. Inside, take and read the book of poetry. Now look
at the clock. Set it to windtime, toiltime, darktime, a secret
panel opens. Take the journal and read it. Now cast reality pocket
on the portrait and enter it.  Talk to the merchant and tell him
you are a messenger from his wife to be, he will ask you a few
questions.

1/ The bouncing beans
2/ Five
3/ How much

He will then give you the amulet.

                        SCORE 215pts

Go back to the tavern and give the amulet to Hugh the Hand, he
will then take you to the tower. Push the table under the window
and get on it, you will see a floating continent through the
window (remember its name).  Go out and put the lock pick in the
oak door and unlock it.

Shake lock pick - clack
Pull lock pick - tick
Tilt lock pick - thunk

Enter the door and look at the doll to learn the motion spell. Now
cast motion on the statue, pick up the necklace and go back
outside to the door covered with hands. To open this door depends
on which floating continent you saw from the cell. Look at the
paper with the quote on it and the list of continents underneath.
If the floating continent you saw was Hesthea, the second of the
listed continents you would spell out the first two words of the
quote using the initials of the coloured hands on the door 'Buy
their'.  So you would press the following....

Bloodstone, Umber, Yew, Topaz, Hyacinth, Emerald, Iron, Ruby.

If the floating continent was Shegra you would spell out the first
three words from the quote.

Once the door is open go inside and put the necklace on the
pedestal. Take the handbook, the book of Pryan and the crystal
globe. Hugh the Hand will appear, quickly put remove the necklace
from the pedestal. He will disappear along with the treasure, now
go back to Drevlin.

                        SCORE 320pts

Back on Drevlin go to Rockdigger and fix the pipes, once the pipes
are in place put the cork in the open end of pipe. Turn the valve
on and talk to Rockdigger then give him the paper with the map on
it. He will give you a piece of ore, go to the location where the
digger is and put the ore in the compartment. Enter the tunnel the
digger has just made and put the crystal globe on the statue and
take the Air seal piece.

Go back to your ship and cast rune transfer on book of Pryan,
transfer it onto your steering stone. Now fly back to Nexus, give
the Air seal piece to Xar and talk to him.

Go to your ship and use steering stone to fly to Pryan.

                        SCORE 430pts

PRYAN
Take the pink flower from outside your ship and then go to where
the strange animal is. Take a nut and a shell, now go back to your
ship and use the steering wheel to fly to the Tree City.  Go to
the clear area and take the clothes line, then enter the door.
Talk to woman and say you are looking for work. A bug appears and
the woman gets rid of it with some stink weed, ask her about the
stink weed. Now talk to the child and then give her the wooden
doll, follow her outside.

Give the clothes line to the prince and talk to him. You will now
be able to follow him to a clearing, wait until the children light
a fire, when an ember falls from the fire pick it up using the
shell.

Keep waiting until Zifnab appears, he spots you and will disappear
again.  Cast transportation on the white disk, you will be
transported to Zifnab.  Talk to Zifnab, then go down and pick some
blue flowers and some yellow ones.  Go back to where Zifnab is,
tie the rope to the branch and take the black disk. Go back down
again and swing on rope.

Go to the edge of the maw and throw the black disk into the maw,
go back to the clearing and cast transportation on the white disk,
you will end up in the maw.  Crush the yellow flowers and then
push the corpse. Take the arrow and the toadstools. Now throw the
marmalade at the spider and put the burning ember in the hive.
When the spider is dead cut the pod with the shear and take the
golden staff. Go back to the children in the clearing.

                        SCORE 535pts

Give the staff, blue flowers and the book of poetry to the prince.
He will now come with you. Talk to the princess and get her to
come with you also, now go back to your ship and fly to the
Citadel.

Go the the animal in the tree again and put the crushed petals in
the nut, then give the nut to the animal. Pick up the nut meat and
go into the forest where you will find a girl tied to a tree.

Ask the princess to play the tune you found in the book, while she
is playing the tune cut the dwarf girl free with the shear. Talk
to the dwarf girl, you should be able to get some herbs from her.
Ask her about the hammer she will enter the tree stump to ask
about it for you, when she reappears talk to her again and tell
her to meet you at the Citadel if she gets it.  Give herbs, nut
meat, toadstools, pink plant to the princess, this will cure her
cough. Ask the princess to play the tune again, while she is
playing go north into the forest until you reach a tree surrounded
by Tytans.  Ask the prince to climb the tree and get the crystal
for you. Go back to the tree stump and open the door in it. To
distract the Tytans throw the crystal into the stump.

While the Tytans try to get the crystal go to the Citadel and meet
up with the dwarf girl. You will be taken into the Citadel and
meet up with Zifnab again who gives you a dragon stone. Take the
Fire seal piece and go back to your ship.

Cast rune transfer on crystal fragment and transfer the fragment
onto the steering stone. Now go back to Nexus and give the Fire
seal piece to Xar.  Return to your ship and fly to Abarrach.

                        SCORE 680pts

@~To be concluded next issue
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