RAVENLOFT: STONE PROPHET (Part 2)

                Solution by Diana Griffiths

@~Continued from last issue

DESERT Your party should now have enough skill and experience to
tackle some of the more difficult monsters.  Leave the Ruined
Temple of Harvest and head to the far north where you will
encounter the friendly Troll, if he isn't in your party already.
Have the troll join you in place of Piotra the thief, if needed.
Keep traveling north until you reach the face carved into the
wall.

BURIAL CATACOMBS Enter the mouth and go down the corridor
immediately to the left and find a Fly spell scroll behind an
illusionary wall. Leave through the mouth, then cast Jump or Fly
and enter the eye on the right. Get the Calcite Wishing Cup, then
leave. Jump or fly into the other eye. Get the Gold Circle Key.
Leave and enter the mouth again. Get the Silver Circle Key and
Telchen's Lute. Get the Wemic and Troll suits of armor for the
Wemic and Troll if you plan to use them in your party now or
later. Have the Undead Paladin join your party. Go downstairs and
get the Seal piece from the lower excavation. Leave the Burial
Catacombs. Go south to the Sphinx.

THE ANCIENT SPHINX Read the scroll 'The Secret of the Sphinx'.
Then approach the Sphinx carved into the wall. Keep following the
stairways until you find the laughing statue. Refer to the map if
necessary. Click the Calcite Wishing Cup on the statue. I
recommend picking fire resistance. Go downstairs to the Labyrinth
of the Magi. Get the crocodile figurine. Offer it to the statue
with gold markings. Get the ram and frog figurines.  Offer the ram
figurine to the statue with purple markings. Offer the frog
figurine to the statue with beige markings and get the scarab
figurine. Give the scarab figurine to the statue with blue
markings. Get the Teleport spell scroll and the gold key with a
black gem. Open the doors with the gold key with the black gem and
get the Gold Whistle. Get the Knock spell scroll. The Knock spell
can be used to open most locked doors and will save you having to
find many keys from now on. Head upstairs to the Hall of Insight.
Explore thoroughly. Have the Jackalwere join your party. Leave the
Ancient Sphinx.

DESERT Find the ghost just north of Muhar and use Telchen's Lute.
Talk to the ghost. Go east to the stone statue of a man and use
the large chain. Enter the Royal Burial Hall.

ROYAL BURIAL HALL There are four teleports on each wall, north,
south, east and west. Take the north teleport and get the Iron
Circle Key. Take the south teleport and get the Demon Key. Take
the west teleport and get the Dragon Tooth Key.  Take the east
teleport and get the Thorn Key. Make sure you pick up a Seal piece
in the south-center of the north-west quadrant. Use the Thorn Key
to open the lock opposite the stairs. Walk into the picture of the
Guardian of the Dead and enter the world of the dead. Leave the
Burial Hall of the Dead.

DESERT Go south until you reach the pair of hands reaching out of
the sand. Walk through the hands going south to the rock. Turn
east at the rock and walk toward another rock. Then turn south and
walk into the Temple of Ra.

UNDERGROUND TEMPLE OF RA Find the eight tears of Ra (five on the
upper level and three on the lower). Find the pictures of the hand
maidens in the west central area of the Temple Grounds. Place one
tear on each of the pictures of the hand maidens. Get the Seal
piece. You should now have the complete Heirophant Seal. Place the
seal in the circle of the pattern on the wall near Heirophant's
mummy. Leave the temple of Ra. Travel to Pharaoh's Rest in the far
north-east of the desert.

PHARAOH'S REST First it is a good idea to become invisible to
avoid being attacked by the Stone Golems. Use the dust of
disappearance so you can attack the Stone Golems without them
attacking you. They can be destroyed by +3 weapons.
Alternatively, use the Fly spell to avoid the Stone Golems. Very
carefully, as you must do this in exactly the right order, locate
seven pressure plates on the floor. Step on them in this order:
south-west, west, north-west, north-east, north-east-east, east,
south-east, or in other words clockwise starting from 7 o'clock.
When you do this correctly, the way north will open. Go north and
head downstairs and fetch the Mallet and Iron Shield Key.  Return
upstairs. Return south and go upstairs (the stairs are toward the
north-west of the southern area). Open all the doors with the Iron
Shield Key or the Knock spell. Get the Gold Ankh Key. Wear the
Mask of Hathor. Use the Gold Whistle on the picture of the falcon.
Put the heart in the inventory. Return downstairs. Make your way
further north, opening the door to the north with the Gold Ankh
Key. Keep going north until you find a picture of a man on the
doors to the north. Put the heart in the hole in this picture. Get
the last Seal piece. After combining all the Seal pieces, you
should now have the complete Ankhepot Seal in your inventory.
Return south and place the Ankhepot Seal on the circular pattern
on the wall.  There should now be a one-way teleport between
Pharaoh's Rest and the Temple of Ra. Don't go through the teleport
yet.  You need to create a safe and easy between the north area
and the one-way teleport. I recommend opening all the doors in the
corridor on the west side by pushing all the buttons and/or using
the Knock spell. Alternatively, preferably if you are fire
resistant, plan on using the east most corridor. Return to the
Gong and hit it with the Mallet. Go south then west or east toward
your safe corridor making sure Ankhepot is following you. He must
be three or four squares behind your party or he will stop
following. This will make it very easy for him to attack and kill
your entire party, so you will probably have to quick save and
restore several times during this sequence. Also you may have to
cast Fly if the stone golems get in your way as your invisibility
spell will keep failing. If you lose Ankhepot by getting too far
ahead of him, use a wand of enemy detection to locate him again
and retrace your steps accordingly. Once you have led Ankhepot
down the north- south corridor, head east (or west) then south
toward the one- way Temple of Ra teleport. If you are flying you
must come down to the ground before you can enter the teleport.
Make sure Ankhepot is behind you, then enter the teleport.

UNDERGROUND TEMPLE OF RA If you were successful, the scene should
change to a fight between Ankhepot and Heirophant. Leave the
Temple of Ra as soon as you can.  Return to the Temple of Set.

TEMPLE OF SET Go down to the Dungeon of Set via a pit or the
stairs down. When you encounter Senmet, kill him then use the
Scroll of Retirement. The Undead Paladin will leave permanently
now, so you can collect one of the other NPCs to join your party.

END GAME Return to the area above the Temple of Ra and go east
into the now safe Wall of Ra. Explore the red zone until you find
a red scroll, the Scroll of Return. It will appear as a yellow dot
on the automap. Use the Scroll of Return. Enjoy the closing
sequences!









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