ISHAR 1 - Silmarils

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WELCOME TO KENDORIA

As you start, go east to meet up with Borminh. Enlist him because
he is useful in battle, but be careful, he is a traitor.  Do not
fall asleep with him in your party. Continue eastwards until you
find a small pool of water, then continue south towards the birch
trees where you find Kiriela. Turn south-west and continue until
you reach the Angarahn village.  Find the orcs and kill them.
There is a shop you can visit in the village and a course is on
offer.

Leave the village and go south-west, skimming the bushes to the
west, where a few orcs can be killed.  Enter the house to find a
chest full of gold. Going east back around the bushes you should
find a teleporter (red wall).  After entering the teleporter turn
south-east to find a bridge leading to the Lake City.  The bridge
is guarded by a barbarian. Kill him and enter the city. There's
not much to do here except for exploring the two inns and the
merchants. Do not recruit Golnol or Nasheer because they are
traitors. When you've finished, leave the city and go south along
the river....

LOOKING FOR WHITE IRON

Take the first bridge and go south. You should find a
psychoanalyst's hut guarded by nightprowlers. Enter the hut and -
as long as one of your characters is good at languages - the
message can be uncoded. Leave and examine the nearby bushes to
find a purse full of gold. Travel east as far as Rhudgast and then
go due north to the ocean.

Return west towards Osghirod and scan the bushes to find a knight
in white iron who is waiting for you. Kill him and take the helmet
he leaves.

THE DUNGEON OF RHUDGAST

Now go back to Rhudgast, go south as far as the river and follow
the river to the east. Watch out for the occasional party of
dwarves on the way.

Follow the river for a while and you find a purse. take it and
turn north, after a few steps to the west, you find a clearing
totally covered in flowers, with an isolated tree in the middle.
The predator stands by the tree. Kill him and take the five rings
that protect you from the dragon's fire.

THE GUARDIAN OF THE BRIDGE

Head due north as far as the river and continue east. After a
while you come to a bridge which you must cross. Then turn east
and enter Aragarth. Make sure you keep 5000 gold pieces.  Keep on
going east until you reach the river, there is a bridge that
crosses the river, but it's guarded by a mean minotaur. Go south
of the bridge to find Fragorn who can be enlisted. He's quite a
tough little character and can be useful in combat.  Then head
north until you find a merchant.  Give him the 5000 gold pieces
and he gives you a potion which makes a prescription.  Return to
the bridge and kill the minotaur. Wait until he has wasted his
long-range and magic weapons before you approach him in close
combat. Cross the bridge and enter Silmatil.

THE GUARDIAN OF THE TORTOISE

Travel north-east until you find a giant waiting with his club for
you. Kill him and search the beach for Ywgen the tortoise.  Travel
south until you reach the barbarians and then return south-east to
Urshurak.

Keep going south towards the city and enter. When you've finished
in the city after killing all living things and go shopping with
the money you get from killing, (This is a training city, every
time you enter the city, all the people are regenerated to gain
much money). exit to the west and enter Kandmir. Continue west
towards Jon's hut and kill a large group of orcs. Enter Jon's hut
and take the parchment from him - this contains some of the
prescriptions given at the end of the manual.

MORGULA THE WITCH

She is a useful team member who has been turned into a pig by the
evil magic of Krogh. Instead of killing the pig, mix an arbool
potion in the magic phial you picked up in the dungeon of
Rhudgast. You find at the junction that there is a locked door.
Turn right into a diamond-shaped room, this is where the Black
Knight lives. Fireball him down.

Continue into the next room and then turn right and enter a maze
that contains treasure, oil and another key.  Open the locked door
in the Black knight's room and follow the maze.  Collect the oil
and eventually you'll come to a T-junction.

Turn left into a room with two levers and a key in it.  Operate
the lever that was on the far wall as you first came in the room.
This lever opens the barred gate at the other end of the
T-junction.  Going that way you will encounter a spider guarding
some food, and you'll also come across yet another key.

Now go back to the locked door and open it. Collect the oil and
travel up the top of the corridor. To the right is a giant to be
sorted out.  You will gain another key. Go through the opening in
the distance. You will be confronted by a baddie through the
archway, so fireball him. If you are low on energy at this point,
go back and refuel.

THE WILD LEVERS

This is a labyrinth that consist of two parallel corridors
interspersed with doors which are controlled by various levers.
Each lever operates two doors simultaneously.  Take the compulsory
passage south and then move east, ignoring the lever and entering
on the left. Operate the lever and head back east.


Now turn right and then to the left, pulling the lever on the
half-turn. Now go back to the previous room (west) then turn right
and left again.  Pull the lever and you can then leave the maze by
continuing along this passage towards the east.  At the end there
is a long corridor with a T-junction.  Some blue ghouls will
appear from nowhere and attack you.  Defeat them and exit left to
find some oil.

The right exit leads to some more ghouls and a spiral corridor
which terminates with a key and a transporter to the next dungeon
level. Recharge again at the last barred gate - it is the outside
two that need pulling. You can then travel up the last corridor
and be met by medusa.

FIX BAYONETS

It would be a very good idea to use the "brain wash" potion again
and then go and kill her.  Be extremely careful through because
around the next corner is her pet dragon who will take some
killing. Finish him off and then strengthen your team. You will
now need to be wearing the monk's robes - after this transport
there is no going back.!  Kill the monk and then use the
transporter...

MEET KROGH

You will arrive in a very long corridor which is guarded by three
powerful monks, if you've got the potions to recharge your team's
psychic energy then now would be a good time to do it. After this
you will confront Krogh himself, so protect your team and use the
anti-Krogh spell, hit as often as you can with any weapon you can,
because he has many hit points (the magic sword takes off 720
points) and with any luck you should survive having killed him.

Krogh's dead means that your adventure is at an end and Ishar is
sadly long gone and completed. So look out for ISHAR 2.



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