DARK SUN I: SHATTERED LANDS - Part 2 Solution by Diana Griffiths @~Continued from Issue 46 RED SAND The first person you should meet here is Algernon. He will be able to identify any magical items you have acquired and will also give you the Red Sand teleporter gem and a wand of metal detection. Find the teleporter in the center of this area and place the gem in it. You should now be able to transport between the Fields of Draj, Teaquetzl and Red Sand. Father Garyn asked to you to fetch some pith. Go south and find Notaku and get the pith from him. He will ask you to perform some work for him. Agree and your assignments will be to fetch Fire Eel tongues and Sand Howler eyes. Return to Father Garyn in Teaquetzl. He will ask you to use it to make a pith extract. Make it using the chemistry set in the west of the house. Return to Notaku in the Red Sand area and he will assign you more work: to find a terror bloom and some Tyrian butterfly wings. Head east and find Demothi and his mastyrial. Ask to buy the mastyrial. You need to find some salt. Take the south exit to South Red Sand. ---------------------------------------- SOUTH RED SAND You will have two important initial battles here. You must rescue the caravan from the Mageras and the women and children near the bridge. Lead the second group back to the first group. Then talk to the warrior leader, Kalinin and persuade him to join the alliance. A rest area is now available near the caravan. Return to the bridge. You need a rope to climb down below the bridge. Look at the rope-like plant climbing up the rocks nearby. Take a length of rope. Place the rope on the bridge and climb down to another portion of the Hidden Temple. Find Tristam and talk to her persistently. Take her heart crystal and use it. Return north to the Red Sand area and take the north exit to the Oasis Desert. ---------------------------------------- OASIS DESERT This desert is where the Tyrian butterfly can be found. Try shooting the orange butterfly. The guardian of the oasis will be outraged by this. You can kill the guardian or apologize and agree to her terms. I suggest you agree and take the butterfly wings she provides. Find the arena announcer and talk to him so that he reveals the location of a treasure. Then kill him. Return south to the Red Sand area and trade in the Tyrian butterfly wings with Notaku. Return west to the Desert and take the south west exit to the Painted Salt Desert. ---------------------------------------- PAINTED SALT DESERT Find Toonuu the salt gatherer and buy a bag of salt at the lower cost of 1800 ceramic pieces. Find the ssurran, SSovan, following the whirl wind and talk to him. Find the number 2 and talk to Maris. Walk the path of the 2 until you get some experience points. Return south-east to the Desert to talk to Laussa. Go south west to the Red Sand area and buy the Mastyrial from Demothi. When you leave the Red Sand area Alita will run away. You can tackle Demothi about this but avoid a fight. Head north to the Oasis Desert and continue north to the Slavers' Camp. ---------------------------------------- SLAVERS' CAMP Go to the south of the camp and insist on seeing the leader. Convince him to kill the templar and the slavers will help you in the battle against the Drajian templar and his troops. Then convince the slavers to join the alliance against Draj and free the slaves. Head west to the Messenger Desert ---------------------------------------- MESSENGER DESERT Stop the messenger and he will start a fight. This can be a tough fight so have your best fighter with the best weapon kill the messenger (before attacking the monster), with the first blows. Return east to the Slavers' Camp then head north to the Elvish Caravan. ---------------------------------------- ELVISH CARAVAN You probably are in need of the rest area at the north end of this area. Talk to the visitors you find at the rest site. Visit Kel, in the west-most caravan, to buy magical supplies and a teleporter gem. Place the gem in the teleporter column. You should now be able to transport between the Fields of Draj, Teaquetzl, Red Sand and the Elvish Caravan. Visit Jark to buy supplies. Visit the seer Larissa. Visit Tobrian and accept the wine immediately. You will end up in the Slavers Camp. Kill Seref and his guards. Then return north to the Elvish Caravan. Visit Tobrian again and tell him you will take up their dispute with Drisana. Visit the caravan master Drisana in the big wagon in the middle. Discuss the dispute and tell the truth so she settles in your favor. Accept the mission to take care of the wyvern raiders in Cedrilte. Rest. Return to the Painted Salt Desert. ---------------------------------------- PAINTED SALT DESERT Talk to Laussa again now that she has found SSovan. Take the east exit to Cedrilte. ---------------------------------------- CEDRILTE VILLAGE Kill the wyverns and bandits. Find Chaya. She is in the middle northern most building. Agree to eliminate the bandits. She will provide a rest area here and give you the teleport gem. Place the gem in the teleport column. You should now be able to transport between the Fields of Draj, Teaquetzl Village, Red Sand, Elvish Caravan and Cedrilte Village. Talk to Lukyan about the terror bloom. Talk to Uskuye and persuade him to help you fight the rampager. Find Krikor and have him guide you to the cave. Look at the larger rock to expose the entrance to the cave. Go right to the Serpent Tree and use it. Kill the rampager (near to the tree) and pick up the terror bloom. Enter the cave. ---------------------------------------- CEDRILTE CAVE Talk to the First Folk and the Outcast. The Outcast has a rest area. Make the thief the leader and climb the cliff. Talk to the spider at the top. Get the necklaces and the golden pendant from the bricked in room. Visit the Queen and agree to destroy the entity. You should meet Prince Clikk-tunk! next. Agree to help him. Wear the necklaces to safely get into the fungus area. Use the pendant at the open brick hole in the fungus area to end the menace. Now find Prince Clikk-tunk! and talk with him. Make sure he is following you very closely as you approach the Queen. He will make a speech and some of the spiders will side against the Queen in the battle. Protect Prince Clikk-tunk! so that he survives the battle. When you have won the battle, return to the Outcast to rest and get your reward. Then visit the Mindhome people with the prince. Ask them to trust the spiders and help you gain entrance to the castle. Return with the Mindhome people to the upper cave area and the entrance to the castle. ---------------------------------------- CEDRILTE CASTLE Kill everyone on the first floor who gets in the way of the stairs to the upper floor. The stairs are at the end of the wyvern pens. Go upstairs. Head for the north-west room. Visit the wind druid here. Take the key to the bandit chief's room. The wind druid's room has a rest area. Go south to the bandit chief's room. Kill the bandit chief. Get the wyvern hook. Look in the bedroom for a key to the bandit chief's treasure room. Loot the treasure room. Return to the wind druid with the wyvern hook and take the Wind Potion. The druid will also heal your wounds - even a dead member of the party. Go to the north-east room to encounter Tara. Have the Wind Potion in hand and as soon as Tara takes any damage immediately use the Wind Potion. Take Tynan's heart crystal. Now go downstairs to the corridors where Tara's Zombie followers dwell. Use the Wind Potion to free them from their curse. Go to the zombie who is locked in his room and he will tell you to find the magical Serpent boots in the north-east alcove of his room. Have the thief wear the magical boots. Go to the south west corner and kill the vrocks. Make the thief the leader and explore the north wall here until the secret area opens up. When you have finished looting the Cedrilte Castle, return through the cave to Cedrilte Village. Talk to Chaya. Return to the Elvish Caravan. ---------------------------------------- ELVISH CARAVAN Visit the caravan master Drisana. Accept the mission to take care of the Magera marauders in Wyrm city. Go to the Red Sand area and hand over the terror bloom to Notaku. He will ask you to find a mastyrial sting. ---------------------------------------- HIDDEN TEMPLE Return to Teaquetzl and go down the well. Use Tynan's heart crystal near his shadow. Return to Cedrilte and go down the well. Place each heart crystal on the altar stone. A rest area now appears nearby. Loot the temple as much as you want. Return to Red Sand and take the east exit to the Outer Wyrm area. ---------------------------------------- OUTER WYRM Talk to the Rogue Shaman and agree to clear the square of the shadows. Pick up the magic ring and then prepare for a fight with the ssurrans. Approach Wyrm City. Pretend that you are following confidential orders to get past the Magera and into the city. @~To be concluded next issue - o -