JEWEL OF KNOWLEDGE
        A Text Adventure written by: Francesco Bova
       (Part of Disk 1306 - and on this issue's disk)

             Solution submitted by: Tom Lorimer

Let's start by asking Jacob about the jewel. Ask Jacob about
Amylya. Ask Jacob about Ariana. Ask Jacob about dragons. Ask Jacob
about Jacob.

Examine Jacob. Take sack. Open sack. Examine salt. W. NW.  Examine
minerals. Touch quartz. Pull quartz. Drop all. Up. Up.  Take book.
Listen. Examine gaping hole. Examine outcrops.  Examine insect.
Throw book at outcrop. Down. Down. Get all. SE.  E. Take bug. Take
book. 

Read book. Light salt with bug. Smell salt. Ask Allarah about 
temple. Ask Allarah about dragons. Ask Allarah about white
dragon. Ask Allarah about black dragon.  Ask Allarah about red
dragon.  Examine mist. Enter mist.

W. W. W. N. Examine moss. Take moss. Examine dirt. Clean dirt with
moss. Open trapdoor. Down. Take lye. Up. S. S. Examine skeleton.
Look under skeleton.  Pour lye on moss.  Clean skeleton with moss.
Take bladder.  Take crampons.  Drop moss.  Drop book.  N. E. E.
NW. W. W. Wear crampons. Climb shaft. Up. Up.  Examine ledge.
Examine arm. E. Examine Ariana. Take crossbow. Examine boots.
Search boots.  Take lockpick.  W.  Down.  Down.  Down. Remove
crampons.  Drop crampons.  Examine bladder. Put bladder in geyser.
Wait - until geyser explodes. Take bladder. W. Examine refuse.
Take pickaxe. E. E.  E. SE. W. W. W. Cut ice with pickaxe - five
times. S. SE. Examine dragon. Examine mouth. Look in mouth.
Examine claw. Open claw. Take coat. Examine coat. NW. N. E. N. N.
Take arrow. Load arrow into crossbow. Shoot mushroom with
crossbow. Take arrow. Load arrow into crossbow. Shoot mushroom
with crossbow.  Load arrow into crossbow.  Shoot mushroom with
crossbow.  S.  S.  E.  E.  E. NE. E. Pull flower. NE. Push flower.
S.  Attack flower. W. Rub flower. N. Touch flower. E. Unlock door
with key. Open lock with lockpick. Wear coat. Put lye in coat. E.

Ask black dragon about trinket. Ask black dragon about jewel.
Wait - until black dragon sprays you with acid. Attack dragon with
sword. Up. Push boulders. Down. Load arrow into bow. Show bow to
dragon. Ask black dragon about trinket. Ask black dragon about red
dragon. Sit on head. Wear ring. Wait - until the black dragon
takes you into the red dragons kingdom and tosses you off his
head. W. Examine chandelier. Wait - until the black dragon is
swept away by the flood, and the red dragon has exhausted her fire
power. W. Examine chandelier. Shoot rope with bow. Examine dragon.
Take embers. Drop ring. Put embers in coat. N. Wait - until the
river washes you onto a pebbled beach. N. N. N. N.  Examine jewel.
Examine mirror. Touch mirror.

Congratulations - you have managed to return home safe and sound.





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