Explorer - part of SynTax disk PD 482
                     Author: Lloyd Pique

                Solution by Bev Truter on PC

You begin the game on top of a Plateau, apparently with no way
down.  Get plant, X plant (it's very fragile), get parachute.
Jump, open parachute, then Wait and Look until you glide gently to
the ground on a Grassy Knoll, and the parachute disappears.  E,
push button, E to a Platform where a tree sprite is busy gardening.
Give plant to tree sprite, and he drops some planks on the floor.
Get planks, W, push button, W, drop planks, W to a Forest Glade
where you see a pair of lock cutters and a peculiar gnome who won't
let you pass and is spoiling for a fight.  Laugh at gnome until he
disappears, then W, get stamp, X stamp, E-S-E to a Small Shop where
you see a can of Dragon Repellent, a Magic Book and a Wooden Torch.
X shop keeper - he is pasting stamps into a book - and talk to him
until he mentions a rare stamp.  Show stamp to shop keeper, and he
says he'll give you anything in the shop for the stamp. Give stamp
to shop keeper and get the torch, can and book.

W-S to the Pub. Talk to the sly fellow, and he rattles on about an
incredible machine he can sell you for just one gold coin, that
will build anything you ask it to.  (Oh Yeah?).  Get ale, drink
ale, and you choke on something hard that rolls to the floor. Look,
drop ale, get gold coin, give gold coin to the sly fellow and he
gives you a weird machine. N-N-E-N to the South Bank of a river.
Drop machine, S, get planks, N, drop planks. By now the machine has
chattily informed you how to operate it, but first go S-W, get lock
cutters, E-N.  Type "bridge", and the machine quickly builds a
sturdy bridge over the river, then destroys itself in a puff of
smoke...and you thought it would never work.....

N, cut brass padlock with lock cutters, W-N-W to a Chamber
containing a sleeping Dragon blocking further progress South.  Wait
until the Dragon wakes up, then spray dragon with dragon repellent
and he runs away. S-W to Treasure Vault.  Read the magic book to
find 4 spells, cast diffusion, go S through the shimmering wall to
the Northern part of an Island and a group of unfriendly Natives
blocking your way South.  Cast ignite, the torch is finally lit
after some rigmarole, and the Natives make way for you to pass. S-E
to the middle of a Glacier, cast color change.  (spelling is
crucial here - "colour change" doesn't work).  This changes all the
surrounding ice and snow to red, revealing a small white nut. Get
nut, cast teleport to return to the area south of the river. Eat
nut, which greatly enhances your intelligence and will enable you
to find a path back to Realitee.  Go to the pasture by a small
lake, and a golden path has appeared where a boulder used to be. S
to a quaint village where a wise old man hands you a leaflet ...
The End.









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