EcoQuest 2 : Secret of the Rain Forest - Hints - Part 3 Taken from the Public Domain @~Continued from Issue 46 5 ... The Grove and Forest Heart Problem: What do I do at the large tree north of the village? Hint: The tree has three entrances. You can find them if you walk between the buttress roots. When you find an entrance, you will see one of the white exit cursors, which indicates that you can walk further. Click there and you will end up in front of a tree door. Problem: I can't get in the door to the tree! Hint: You can only enter the tree from the main entrance, which has a drum stand. Problem: How do I use the drum stand by the tree? Hint: Click the drum you found up in the Canopy on the drum stand. You will see a close-up of the drums. Click on the baton to the left of the drums in the close-up. Now you can play by clicking the baton cursor on the drums. Problem: I'm playing the drum but nothing seems to happen. Hint: You must play the correct melody on the drum. To learn it, pick up the drum again and go back to the drum stand in the village. Click the drum on the drum stand there. The markings behind the village drum stand match the markings on the drums. Play the pattern in order. Be sure to pick up the baton to play. Learn the pattern. Play the pattern exactly the same way at the drum stand in the Grove. Be sure pick up the drum again when you leave the village drum stand. Problem: Why can't I talk to Forest Heart? Hint: Forest Heart is too weak to speak unless you are close to her heart. Click the Hand icon on the seat in the middle of the screen. When Adam sits down, he can hear her. She will tell him that her seedling has been destroyed and that he must find a new one. She will offer Adam a gift that he must take to accept his quest. Problem: How do I help the Shaman start the ceremony? Hint: Click Forest Heart's branch on the shaman -- this is the "green memory" he needs to start the Ceremony. Problem: The ceremony is over but nothing is happening Hint: Click the hand icon on Forest Heart's golden blossom. The golden blossom is the one lying on the bottom of the path in the tree room. Problem: How do I make friends with the bat? Hint: Click the talk icon on the bat. Then, click Forest Heart's amulet on her. She will decide to help you in your quest! Problem: How do I free the bat? Hint: Once you have made friends with the bat by talking to her and showing her Forest Heart's amulet, click the hand icon on the net. 6 ... Cibola Camp Problem: How do I escape from Slaughter's shack? Hint: Use the walk icon to bounce the chair over to the bird cage. You must free Paquita, the bat that Adam made friends with in the forest. Paquita will help you escape. Problem: How do I free Paquita? Hint: Use the walk icon to bounce over to the bird cage. The latch to the cage has been fastened shut with a carrot. Click the hand icon on the carrot and Adam will eat it! Paquita can then fly out and chew through the rope that keeps Adam tied to the chair. Problem: How do I get out of Slaughter's bedroom without getting caught? Hint: If you leave by the door, you will always get caught. You will have to make your own escape route. First, click the hand icon on the jaguar pelt rug to move it out of the way. The floorboard underneath is rotten. Click the hand icon on the rotten section and Adam can pull a large chunk of it out. Click the hand icon on both the top sheet and the bottom sheet of Slaughter's bed. In the inventory window, click one sheet on the other and you will have a sheet rope. Now select the sheet rope and close the inventory window. Click the sheet rope on the hole in the floor and Adam will tie the rope to the bed. Click the hand icon on the rope and Adam will start to climb down the rope. Problem: Slaughter's took all my things! I have nothing in my inventory! Hint: Your things are locked up in the safe in his bedroom - along with a few other surprises. Problem: Where is the combination to the safe? Hint: The combination to the safe is hidden in the password protected section of Slaughter's executive organizer. You will find the executive organizer under the bottom sheet on Slaughter's bed. Click the inventory hand icon on the organizer to view it close up. Click the power button to turn it on. Click the button with the key on it. You can find the password hidden on a slip of paper in Slaughter's bedroom. Problem: What is the password for the executive organizer? Hint: Click the look icon on the head of the jaguar pelt. You will find something is clenched in its teeth. If you look at the tail, you will find that it has been removed and sewn on. Click the hand icon on the jaguar's tail and the jaguar will spit a note onto the floor. Click the hand icon on the note to pick it up. Open the inventory window. The password is on the note - Slaughter's name backwards. Problem: How do I avoid getting caught by Gonzales once I am outside the shack? Hint: To stay safe while you figure out how to help the birds, click the hand on the barrels or equipment and hide behind them. Gonzales must not be facing you when you sneak from one to the other. Hide behind a barrel when you first enter the room. Go to the screen to the east if Gonzales is reading his cookbook. If he takes too long on this screen, it sometimes helps to get caught. Paquita will free you again and Gonzales may be reading when you re-enter. If Gonzales isn't reading and not facing you, you can go east the following way: Enter the screen by the rope ladder. Go as far into the distance as the game allows, then go east. When you enter the next screen, click the hand icon on the crates to hide if Gonzales is chopping vegetables. To climb the tower, wait until Gonzales goes to the other side of the camp and out of sight. He is chopping vegetables and wood, as you will see from the flying chips. He will leave for a while and then return. Be sure to time his habits. Click the hand icon on the alarm by the satellite dish to disable it as soon as you climb up. Problem: How do I get rid of Gonzales? Hint: Distract Gonzales by setting the birds in the cages near the river free. Click the key that you got from the safe on the lock on the lower cage - the one with the bird Adam saw in Iquitos. Problem: How do I get rid of Gonzales? Hint: Distract Gonzales by setting the birds in the cages near the river free. Click the key that you got from the safe on the lock on the lower cage - the one with the bird Adam saw in Iquitos. Problem: The birds keep giving me away! Hint: The birds are hungry and must be fed some of the grain from the sack near Gonzale's cookbook to quiet them. Problem: How do I get the grain? Hint: If you just try to touch the grain, Gonzales will catch you. You must suck up the grain with the hand vacuum that is on top of the satellite platform. Climb up on the tower when Gonzales is out of sight. Turn off the alarm that is attached to the satellite dish by clicking the hand icon on it. The alarm will turn green and you will be safe. Click the hand icon on the small vacuum near the laundry basket. To climb down from the platform, click the hand icon on the laundry basket and find the purple suspenders. Click the suspenders on the hook above the alarm. Adam will bungee down to the ground. Hide behind the barrel near the birdseed. Click the vacuum on the birdseed. Get the birdseed out of the vacuum in inventory by clicking the inventory hand icon on it. When you can get to the screen with the bird cages, click the birdseed on the birds. Don't go too close or the hungry birds will squawk and give you away! The birds will stay quiet when eating and allow you to approach. Problem: I've successfully avoided Gonzales. How do I leave the camp? Hint: Take the ax that is in the stump on the same screen with the bird cages. Make a canoe from the log near the bird cages by clicking the ax on it. Get a tennis racket from Slaughter's zebra-skin footlocker to use as a paddle. For more points, go back and click the talk icon on Paquita to tell her you are leaving before setting out in the canoe. @~To be continued next issue - o -