TORIN'S PASSAGE (Sierra) - Part 1

                      From Phil Darke

CHAPTER ONE- THE LANDS ABOVE

Torin's Passage is a CD adventure from Sierra in which you play
Torin, a young farm hand whose parents have mysteriously
disappeared. After the introduction pick up the axe and the rope
from the barn. Enter the house and click on the basket and pick up
Inch Worm. Now click on the table and pick up the pouch. Leave the
house and head south. Pick some berries and go west to the hut.
Read the sign on the door and use the axe on the blue crystals. An
old man appears, he refuses to help you but tells you that he is
waiting for his replacement. Knock on the door and tell him that
you are his replacement. Enter the hut and talk to the man. He
tells you that before he leaves you must prepare a final meal for
him. As a starter he wants berry juice so give him the berries.
For his main course he wants Sluggetti and Peat balls. Leave the
hut and go east and take the path leading north. Climb onto the
lower branch to discover that you are over a peat bog. Climb onto
the top branch. Select the rope from your inventory and click it
on the branch and then on yourself. Now perform a bungee jump to
get some peat. Click on the screen just to the left of the broken
branch to start swinging, click again as you are moving right and
keep repeating this until you can swing far enough to reach the
branch. Now you need to get some slugs. Go back to the east to
where there are some slugs on a tree. Click on the slugs, they are
too quick for you to catch. Take the north path to the left of the
tree. Select Inch Worm from your inventory and click him on the
large leaf on the right of the screen. Take the leaf and go down.
Go back west to the large tree, there are two snails half way up
the tree. Talk to them and they agree to help you in exchange for
the leaf.

Go east and take the path south to Crystal City. Put the snails
into the moat and you will receive some scum.  Return to the tree
with the slugs and drop the scum on the tree. Select Boogle from
your inventory and click on the scum.  Boogle turns into a box and
makes a trap. Walk away from the tree and the slugs are trapped by
Boogle. Return to the hut and prepare the old man's meal. He now
wants root for dessert. Leave the hut and go to the first tree you
come to, one of the roots is square in shape. Use the axe on it
and return to the hut. Prepare a root pie. The old man now opens a
secret passage. Click on the stone at the top of the screen. Click
the shard on the four holes until all the stones in the centre
drop down. A cup like container rises from the floor.  Fill the
pouch with the powder from this container. Use the powder on the
blue crystal to be transported to the lands below.

CHAPTER TWO - ESCARPA

You fall onto a platform together with a tile. Pick up the tile
and go up the steps to your right. At the top you will see another
tile attached to the cliff face, grab it and you will fall back
down to where you arrived. To your left is a door. Go to it. Here
you will meet the the Bitternut family.  There is another tile on
the table but you can't take it yet. Talk to Mrs. Bitternut until
all topics are exhausted.

Leave and go down the left cliff until you meet a two headed
vulture. He refuses to let you pass. Talk to the vultures until
you discover that they want some meat. Go back to where you saw
the washer woman and enter the door behind the waterfall. Go to
the right and talk to the King. Keep talking until he tells you
about his daughter. Click on the shards hanging from the ceiling.
Give the shard from your inventory to the King.  In return he will
give you an invitation to the royal ball. Ask about his daughter
and the queen will give you a locket. Take the meat from the table
and leave.

Go to the Bitternuts and give the invitation to Mrs. Bitternut.
You can now take the tile.  Leave and go back to the washer woman.
Take the clothes peg from the washing line. Go down the next set
of steps to where there is a slide on the side of the cliff. Put
the meat on the slide and the Vulture will fly away. Enter the
cave on the left. Take the tile.

There is a small door here. Click on the worm in Boogle's
inventory and get him to go through the door. It is dark here so
click on the lantern in Boogle's inventory. Now click on the
shovel and get a sample of the Dragon Poo.  Leave the cave and go
down and up the steps past the Vulture's nest.  Jump across the
gap and climb down the cliff. Enter the cave and take the pillow,
carpet, fan and tile. Go as far as possible to the right and take
the sign. Go back up and enter the cave.

The skunks will not let you pass. Put the clothes peg on Torin's
nose and click the carpet on Torin. Go through the cave and up the
steps.  Talk to the creature at the top and exchange the cushion
for the tile. Go back down to the cave where you got the carpet.
Stay on the balcony and move the vertical handle down until you
can see the balcony below. Drop the carpet here, then use the fan
on it.  When the women have left go back into the cave. Do not try
to go down the ladder. Instead turn Boogle into a Yo Yo and send
him down and tell him to get the tile which is hanging there.
Leave and return to the Vulture's nest.  Move the vertical handle
down until you can see the tree. Put the Dragon Poo on the tree.
It will now grow and you will be able to climb down.

Go up the steps and put some of the tiles onto the square. Go back
to the washer woman and give her the sign. She will wash it and it
is now a tile. Return to King Rupert and ask him for the tile on
his floor. Now go back down the tree.

You should now have 9 tiles. If you move the cursor over each
tile, each one has a unique description. Arrange the tiles on the
square in the following order, from top left to bottom right:-

1. A tile
2. What, another tile
3. Another tile
4. Tile, formerly known as sign
5. What me tile
6. Infan tile (there are 2 infan tiles, this is the one with a
   straight line.
7. Infan tile (with curved line)
8. Still another tile.
9. Yet another tile.

Now rotate the tiles until a face is formed. An opening will
appear with a set of steps. When you arrive in the chamber use the
Erresdy powder on yourself.

CHAPTER THREE - PERGOLA

You fall through a hole and find yourself being tied up by some
small creatures. Quickly click on one of them to release yourself.
Talk to their leader who tells you about another person that they
have captured. Follow him and discover that it is Lena. At first
she refuses to believe that you want to help her. Show her the
locket.  She still refuses to believe you. Click the locket on the
holographic projector and open it and show her again.  Now that
she can see the pictures of her mother and father she believes you
and tells you that she has a knife in her boot.  Take it and
release her.

After Lena has tended Torin's wounds the leader shows you a
Phenocryst. This is a pentacle with ten Ositaries on it.  Each of
the ositaries has a hat, scarf, belt and sleeves of different
colours. In order to solve the puzzles you must arrange them on
the lines of the pentacle so that the four on each line each have
either hat, scarf, belt or sleeves of the same colour.  For
example, four on one line with green hats, four on another line
with red belts, four on another line with yellow scarves and four
on another line with grey belts.  When you have solved this puzzle
you will be transported to another. Here the ten ositaries are
arranged in two rows of five. If you look closely you can see that
there are five men and five women. Arrange the women on the left
and men on the right. When you have done this a lectern will
appear with a baton on it. If you look at the two doors behind
them you can see musical scales on them and you must now move them
around so that when you click the baton on them they sing the
scales corresponding to the door behind them. In case; like me you
are tone deaf, arrange the women in the following order, from left
to right.

1. Yellow scarf, grey belt and blue sleeves
2. Grey scarf, red belt, and blue sleeves
3. Yellow scarf, grey belt and grey sleeves
4. grey scarf, red belt and grey sleeves
5. yellow scarf, red belt and grey sleeves

Arrange the men in the following order

1. Green hat, blue sleeves
2. Green hat, grey scarf and belt
3. Yellow scarf
4. Red belt
5. Grey hat

The doors will now be open and Torin and Lena separate.  Lena
returns to Escarpa. While Torin continues his quest.

@~To be concluded next issue




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