Ultima 7 - Black Gate and Forge of Virtue (Part 3)

CD Rom solution from Bill Commons

@~Continued from Issue 40

Go to the Mage Greshian and he will tell you of a great sword that
he tried to make.  He will then make a forge and give you a sword
blank.  You must use the forge to temper and beat the blank to
make a sword.  Fill up the trough by clicking on the bucket, the
well and the trough, it takes three bucketfulls.  Put the blank on
the forge and use the bellows until the sword is white hot, then
click on the hammer, the sword and the anvil until it says you can
do no more.  Take the sword back to the mage and he will say it
needs magic to make it better.  The gem says that it could be the
answer and Greshian gives you the choice.  If you choose to bind
the sword and the gem then you cannot put it down.  The answer is
that if you need a free hand then you can put the sword in your
belt.

Recall to Dracothraxus and ask the sword to kill the dragon.  When
this is done you can go north to pick up the Talisman of Courage.
You are now teleported back and are given a new quest, to find the
Talisman of Infinity.  This is in Greshian's room and when you
talk to him about it he says that you need two lenses and how to
send the Exodus into the void, then he will talk to you no more.
The sword then says "fear not for I know something of this
matter." He tells you to go to the museum in Britain and get the
two lenses.  Change the dragon mark to the centre of this room
and recall to Britain.

Pick up the two lenses then back to Fire Isle.  Put the three
Lockets on the top of the Exodus remains, as the sword instructs
you and place the lenses to the left and right of it.  Greshian
will try to stop you after this and casts a spell, then he and the
Exodus vanish.  Return to Lord British and he will reward you by
doubling your strength and hit points.  I feel that if he was able
to do this, I wonder why he did not do it earlier, it would have
made life a lot easier.  But then he is a bit of a wally where the

Fellowship is concerned, he will hear no evil about them when I
saw through them in the first town.  Still I am the Avatar.

Enter the east side moongate and re-enter each five times and you
should arrive at New Magincia.  Talk to Constance and she tells
you how she is heartbroken by Henry and she now has fallen for a
handsome stranger named Robin.  There are three strangers on the
island and they have stolen Henry's locket and sold it to Boris
the innkeeper, keep talking to Boris, Magentia and Robin and you
will recover the locket from the innkeeper's wife.  Show it to
Robin and he will ask you to take him back to Buccaneers Den. He
tells you of his plan to take Constance with him and sell her to
the brothel.  When you refuse to join them they will attack, poor
things.  Show the locket to Constance and tell her of her lucky
escape, then give the locket back to Henry.

Go north and visit Alagner, ask about his notebook and he agrees
to loan it to you if you can give him the answer to life and
death.  He tells you to seek out the tortured one on Skara Brae.
Fly to this island, there are only a few places to land.  Or you
can land on the mainland and take the ferry.  You can only talk to
all the undead if you cast the seance spell.  Talk to all on the
island and find out that the tortured one is called Caine.  He
promises to give you the answers if you will rid the island of the
evil liche named Horance.  Talk to the healer Mordra and she will
give you a recipe for a potion.  The ingredients are in her house.
Take them to Caine and he will show you how to make the potion.

Go to the Dark Tower in the N/W Taking the music box from the
blacksmith's shop.  Play it to Rowena and she will give you a
ring.  Take this back to the blacksmith, her husband, and he will
ask you to get an iron bar from the cemetery, this will allow him
to complete the soul cage.  Get the bar for him and he will give
you the completed cage.  Take this to Mordra and she tells you to
enchant it by lowering it into the Well of Souls at the north end
inside the Dark Tower.  At midnight lower the cage over the
sleeping liche and pour the magic potion over it.  This frees
Horance from the evil powers and he asks you to lead Rowena back
to the blacksmith, after that he wants you to destroy the Well of
Souls.  This is accomplished by getting someone to jump into the
well.  You ask everybody and after a few reservations the mayor
agrees to sacrifice himself.  Caine then gives you the answer.
"No answers." and you return to Alagner.

He will give you the key to his storeroom where the notebook is
kept.  It is best to go in alone as your companions can obscure
levers or get killed by the traps.  I went through the secret wall
in the S/W corner and used the key to open the gate.  Drop all
your weapons and armour so that you can carry more.  Keep putting
the crates in front of you and make your way to the central red
lever.  Push this and carefully enter the middle room.  Place the
crates as far north as you can, then go on the platform.  This
teleports you to the left side corridor, go up and across to the
room on the right.  Step on the right platform and you go to the
left hand room.  Push the lever on the rear wall, this lowers the
central metal walls.

Step on the left platform and you will be back at the start.
Repeat the operation up to the red lever, carefully enter the
central room and use a telekinesis spell to move the red lever.
The door closes and you carefully walk along to the east wall then
north keeping away from the platform.  Put the crates as far north
as you can and walk through the north wall.  Enter a new area
taking the crates as you go.  Move the chairs and the candelabra
from the table then use that and the crates plus some more found
at the rear, to make a stairway up to the first floor room.  Open
the door and enter to get the notebook.  The other levers and
doors are mostly traps and time wasters so are best ignored.

Make your way out picking up your possessions and gang, then
return to the Wisps.  They will tell you how to meet the Time Lord
and not to trust the Guardian who is building a black moongate to
enter Britannia.  When you go back to return the notebook you find
that Alagnar has been murdered and if you look in his crystal ball
you can see his murderers.  You also get a message from the
Guardian thanking you for showing him the notebook.

Go to Yew on the coast N/W of the abbey, and using your Orb of the
Moons, contact the Time Lord.  He tells you to repair the ether
and to contact Penumbria on Moonglow.  He also tells you to go to
a dungeon called Dungeon Despise in Serpents Spine to destroy a
sphere in it, this is where you found the magic carpet.  When you
leave you will find yourself in Moonglow.  Get a crystal from the
traveller Addom to give to Brion in the Observatory and he will
give you the completed small orrery.  This shows how much time is
left before the Guardian comes.  Go to the house in the north west
of the island and put on the ground by the plaque the following -
a hammer, a lockpick, a gold ring, a spindle of thread and a coin.
A key will appear and you can open the door.

Give Penumbria the orange potion that is near her and she will ask
you to get some blackrock to stop her head aching.  This can be
collected at the Minoc or Vesper mines or at Rudyon's house in
Cove.  You require four pieces.  When this is done she will tell
you that the ether is being disturbed by something in Dungeon
Deceit.  A tetrahedron.  She goes on to say that you must get the
ethereal ring from Lord Draxinuson on Terfin and bring it back to
her, to enchant.  Go to Terfin and Talk to Lord Draxinusom.  First
of all tell him of the murder of Inamo at Trinsic.  He will ask
you to tell Teregus about his son's death.  Enquire about the town
and find a note in Sarplin's shop that implicates Runeb the leader
of the Fellowship in the plot and he also defaced the shrines.
When you tell Teregus he asks you to confront Runeb and this leads
to a fight.  Lord Draxinusom tells you that he has sold the
ethereal ring to the Sultan of Spectran.  Go to Spectran and talk
to Martingo the sultan and he will say that you can have anything
that he has, if you can get into his vault, including the ethereal
ring.  I found this very easy now but when I tried much earlier I
was killed each time.

Return to Penumbria and don't be surprised if the blackrock has
vanished I also stored some outside and this was missing too.
When you have sorted this out she will enchant the ring.

Go to Dagger Island and enter Dungeon Deceit, Here you have some
fights and traps, also a couple of things that I could not work
out.  First there are two girl warriors who want to kill a cyclops
and he says let them come, but I found no way to bring them
together, also each time you pass a certain spot you get two cries
of "help" but I could not find anyone in distress.  Go into the
generator alone wearing the ring and defeat the monster, take the
prism and the whole structure crumbles.  Go to Paws and buy the
hourglass from the shop of items, take it to Yew and get Nicodemus
to enchant it.

Now go to a dungeon at 34 north 4 west, in the centre of Serpents
Spine mountains.  This is a complicated dungeon and is probably
best searched alone at first.  Wander around and note all the
traps and areas that lead to nowhere.  See the firebombs and the
lever that says "do not enter" go south and find the area with the
beds and the fire fields, open the invisible chest and find the
secret passage out by using the invisible spell.  Now collect your
party and travel along the secret passage just before the trap
room where you keep being sent back along the passage.  Explore
all this area, tell the mage how to get home and defeat all the
monsters, you will eventually be teleported to Dungeon Despise.

@~The last section will be in the next issue.

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