Gateway 2:Homeworld - Legend - Part 2

                   Solution by Sue Medley

@~Concluded from Issue 54

Part Four - Homeworld

Get pod, x device (you have to give lectures at 9am and 8pm at the
Place of Learning. Use the trams west of quarters), open cabinet,
get pouch, x it (sleeping powder which must be dissolved), S, W
(into Tram. You arrive at the Quad of a campus and a Heechee tells
you to go through the door south), S (Lounge, a Heechee guard is
here), wait (until the Heechee drinks from container), wait (he
puts it on the table), wait (until you're told you can go in. You
enter and give your talk at the appropriate time. Then return to
the lounge. The guard tells you to go home and rest), N, E (Tram
to return to the City Streets).  W (onto the tram again), S, open
pouch (yellow powder), wait (until Heechee puts thermos on table),
put powder in thermos (when on table), wait (until Heechee drinks
and falls asleep.  You can now explore the campus), get thermos.

N, E (City Streets), N (your Apartment), x device (Raphide leaves
you a message but so does an unknown person who wants you to meet
him at the Campus Theatre at 3pm), S, W, N, wait until 2:50, NE
(Theatre), wait (for the lecture; a figure slips into the seat
next to you.  He is Macropterous, a member of the White Hand, and
gives you a card to use in the ship's computer which will take you
to their location. You need Sterigma's second verse to enter, but
then the lights come up and he leaves without saying what it is).

SW, E, SE (A speaker is talking of Sterigma), wait (until he
recites the second verse which mentions wings will ride the sky,
knives of fire will fall, boiling seas flood the farmlands, stone
will crack from hammer blows), E, S, (Gardens; see mound of dirt
and plaque), read plaque (ironweed grows very vigorously on the
ancestral Homeworld), dig earth (find seeds), get seeds.  N, N, N
(City Hangar), U (Ship, you slide in the new card), x controls
(codes for Admin Planet and City Hangar and a new unknown one).
Set the ship to the unknown course and press button. You land on a
barren world.

D, N (Temple), x plaza, x disks (four of them, each with a symbol
- plant, dagger, hammer, pair of wings - which can be turned to
point the icons at the different altars, one on each wall), x
walls (north shows wind, flames east, waves south and rock west),
turn disk ...

You see a graphic representation of the disks. It isn't easy to
identify what they are! Turn the top left one (plant) south, top
right (hammer) west, bottom right (wings) north, bottom left
(dagger) east. Stairs open up in the centre. You descend and meet
a Heechee. He is Exegisis, leader of the White Hand. He tells you
about the Ancient Ancestors. Talk to him and you find you need 3
components to make your ship able to leave the Core.  You need a
Gravity Field Generator, Gravity Lens and Nav Data Chip. You will
find the first where underground excavations are being carried
out, the second he doesn't know, the third maybe in another ship.

Bring them back when you have them. He also gives you a course
code card for a place where they are carrying out excavations.

U, S, U (Ship; you slide in the new course code card), x controls,
select the new one and travel there (you land somewhere else on
the same planet).  D, N (Dig Site), x column, x box, plant seeds
(they grow over the column and support it), push button (to
release the box. It falls to the ground and so does a shiny
object), get generator, get object (it looks like a badge of some
sort), x badge (The words Field Science are engraved on it), S, U
(Ship), x controls, fly to Administration Planet.

D (Docking Area, a technician approaches you. He tells you about
the probes they send out and that only science personnel are
allowed in the command centre. He also tells you how to program
the probes), N (a sensor sniffs your badge and lets you through.
You're in the Command Centre), x console, set the co-ordinates to
those of the Temple Site, push button (a probe takes off).


S, U, x controls, set it to Temple Site, push button, D, wait
(until probe crashes), wait (Heechee come out and dismantle it,
taking the pieces into the temple), U, x controls, set them to
City Hangar, D.

S, E, wait (until the doors to the Place of Seeing open), E, wait
(while you're told that the lift being used is protected by
sensors and a lens at the bottom of the shaft, for safety), wait
(until you can leave), W, S, E, D (Sewer; you see a shaft the
other side of the gunk), put box in sludge, push button (sewage
congeals), N, N (Tube Junction), drop all except pod, open pod,
wear pod, U, U, U, jump (the sensors catch you; you land at the
bottom by a lens), get lens, get lens, put it in pod, U, U, U, U
(to the Junction), S, S, get all, push button, get box, S, W, N,
N, U, x controls, fly to Temple Site, D, N, D (you talk to the
Heechee again. He says the ship will be ready soon but you could
only overtake your enemies if they had the TransWarp Drive
theories developed by Solifluction. His father, Astatine, whose
pod was supposedly destroyed when Solifluction died, and Raphide,
might know. Raphide doesn't answer messages.  However, you have
had a message from him.  Also Exegisis knows that Fogram has
Astatine's pod, even though he is crazy. He is currently using him
on a top secret project in the Place of Learning. Raphide will be
drawn out if he knows Astatine is still alive. You must direct a
message to Raphide in your next speech.  Exegisis reveals himself
as Convergence to add weight to your story. Come back once you
have contacted Raphide)

U, S, U, set controls for City Hangar, D, S, W, W, W (Tram), S,
wait (until the light goes green), W (you give your talk,
including the message for Raphide. Then you leave), N, E (Tram),
N, x device (Raphide contacts you. Tell him Astatine was saved by
Fogram and that Convergence told you. He says you must kill
Astatine. Tell him you want the TransWarp Drive theories. You make
a deal. He says Astatine will be in a silver box. Bring it here
and attach the port to the communicator's transfer jack).

S, E, E, wait (until Place of Seeing opens again. When the roof
opens...) look through telescope and identify Aesthemis, wait
(until you can leave), W, W, W, W (to a door with buttons on it.
Depress them to take the shape of Aesthemis. Light goes green and
door opens. You enter a Laboratory).

X device, get it (before you can, an image of an Ancient Ancestor
appears. It's Astatine and he talk to you.  Tell him you can take
him out of his pain and that Raphide sent you. Tell him to
disengage his datastore but ask him about the project too.  It
bends light and aims to make things, or people, invisible. It is
powered by a stud but only works on light in the invisible
spectrum so far. He says he'll give you a demo and gives the code
for the lamp - random, in this case 13544), get visor, wear it,
get datastore, x keypad, 13544, wait (the light beams don't bend
so far now), wait (until they hit the device head on), get device,
remove visor, E.

E, N, x communicator (it's Raphide. You follow his instructions
and Astatine is erased. Raphide then tells you the truth about
Fogram and Solifluction but says he knows nothing about the drive.
But you forgive him).

S, E, E, N, U, x controls, fly to Temple Site, D, N, D (talk to
Convergence. Tell him Solifluction was "stilled" and he tells you
about Datavaults. You must recover Solifluction), U, S, U, x
controls, fly to Administration Planet, D, E, SE (Hallway with
lenses on the walls), E (you get injured by something from the
first lens and retreat), wear visor (you see beams of light
crossing the corridor), wear belt, push stud, E (the beams bend
round you. Now in Vault Entrance), remove visor.

Wait (until sparks from the cable behind the shield damage it so
much that a robot workthing removes it), get cable, touch cable to
case (scorching the case), wait (until the workthing removes the
case), x console (type the name of the stored personality you wish
to locate), traitor (as that was the name Fogram always used to
refer to Solifluction, you're given a random number, in this case
53223).

E (DataVault with keypad and chute by the door), x keypad, 53223,
wait (a workthing brings a datafan and gives it to you), plug fan
into datastore, press download, get datafan (from port), put it in
chute, W, wait (until belt is recharged), push stud, W, NW, W, U,
x controls, go to Temple Site, D, N, D (you talk to Convergence,
say you have recovered Solifluction. He takes the datastore and
Solifluction appears to give help. The drive is adapted and so is
the belt, to render the wearer virtually invisible. You enter your
ship and it blasts off to intercept the Artifact. Arriving
there...)

NE, open door, NE, NE (Cargo Bay. Diana calls you up. The
terrorist leader has all your stuff in a security case and is in
the aft section. There are guards too. Diana says the couch is a
telepathic device. She feels you could probably make contact with
it too, as well as listen. She heads off for the Zoos. You go back
down to the cargo bay.)

S, S, S (your old probe ship), get radio (you turn it to frequency
1), wear belt, press stud (you're invisible), N, N, N, W, W (past
the guard to the Dream Room), lie on couch (you tune into the
terrorist leader. Pretend to be an Assassin! Tell him to go to the

bridge. You see him put everything in the safe and say "safe:
close". You get up from the couch.)

E, E, E, E (Terminal Room, the safe is here), drop radio (you put
it by the safe), W, W, W, W, lie on couch (in contact with the
terrorist leader, tell him to instruct his men, use the expression
with the words safe and open in it), E, E, E, E (the safe is
open), get all, put cube in matrix (the Old One is back on-line,
the ship will explode in 20 minutes ...)

You and Diana dash to the Heechee transport and take off. You
watch as the Artifact explodes and then you head back to Earth.
Your fame spreads again but one day you get a call to attend an
important meeting. Officials of the UN flank a Heechee who says "I
told you we would meet again, my human friend." Fogram is defeated
and, together, humans and Heechee will fight the Assassins.

Score 1600/1600

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