BLUE ICE WALKTHROUGH - part 2

    By the Three Jays, with many, many thanks to Rik Yapp

@~Continued from last issue

Now it's time to start educating Edward about the joys of life to
free the kingdom of Icia from the thousands of meaningless laws
that have frozen the land.  As each of the five joys are discovered
you can check your progress in two ways.  The books in the Library
turn colour from red (Laws) to green (Joys), while a dove appears
in the Chimney to indicate the end of each task.  Edward needs to
discover the joy of food (a special breakfast does the trick), the
joy of love (uniting Olly and Pollyanna), the joy of music
(learning to play forbidden instruments), the joy of nature
(fishing, smoking fish and fly catching) and the joy of colour
(brightening up his paintings).

We'll start with breakfast. Empty the wine bottle in the Pond or
sink in the Loo.  Go to the front of the house, fill the bottle
with water from the Pond and click the sun on the bud to turn it
into a flower.  Pour the bottle over the flower to produce a green
berry then click the sun on it to ripen it.  Pick the berry.
Unfortunately you need three and the only way to collect three at
once is to bring a mouse in on the act.  Return to the Library and
place the berry on the floor in front of the Mousehole for the
mouse to carry off.  Repeat this procedure twice more, refill the
bottle with water then enter the Mousehole and scoop up the three
ripe berries.  Pick up a piece of cheese while you are there.  Call
in at the pantry to get some sugar then place the blackberries,
water and sugar in the saucepan in the Kitchen to make blackberry
jam.

Now to make toast.  Enter the Drawing room and use the lit match to
light the candle.  Take the candle.  Drag the coal scuttle into the
hearth then use the lit candle to light the fire.  It needs a good
draught to keep it alight so use the wind on the fire.  Click the
arrow on to the fire to enter the Chimney.  Notice the small star
at the top?  This grows in size and brightness as you complete the
quests.  The five doves also congregate here. Back in the Drawing
room, click the slice of bread on the fire to toast it, then place
the toast on the small plate in the Dining room.  Go to the Garden
and milk the cow by placing the hand icon on the udder and dragging
it down.  Three squirts of milk fill the bucket.  Collect the milk
in the bottle and pour it into the butter churn in the Kitchen.
Use the knife on the churn to get butter for the toast.  Spread it
on then use the knife on the pan to get jam.  Put this on the toast
too, then put the toast on the plate in the Dining room.

While in the Dining Room, check out the door to the right (no key
needed for this one).  It leads to the Cellar.  You'll spot a
parchment piece among the cobwebs.  Leave it for now, then go look
at the recipe book in the Kitchen again to find you now need to
make Cheese of Edam Sauce.  Go back to the Garden to milk the cow
again and collect a bottle of milk, collect some salt from the
Pantry, then put the cheese, milk and salt into the saucepan in the
Kitchen to make the sauce.  Use the knife to scoop it up and click
the knife on the jug in the dining room to fill it with the sauce.
You can't yet make the smoked eel but can make the prince's tea.

Go to the House and take the moon from the sky (you lose your sun
icon but gain a sickle for cutting).  Fill your bottle with water
and stop by the pantry to get some more sugar.  Use the sickle moon
to cut a leaf on the left of the Garden near Olly's shoulder.
Checking the flashing book in the library tells you the leaf is to
make tea and the addition of milk and sugar turns it into Royal
Yerba Mate. Put the bottle into the fire in the Drawing room to
boil the water and place the leaf and water into the teapot in the
Dining room.  Drag the pot to the cup to fill it with tea.  Milk
the cow again and collect a bottleful.  Pour the milk into the cup
then add the sugar.  Another task completed.

It's still not time to prepare the smoked eel so turn to uniting
the young lovers.  First step is to get Mrs. S. to go to sleep.
Fill the salt cellar with sleeping powder from the box marked Zzz
in the Bedroom then sprinkle the powder into the wineglass she is
holding in the Library.  Drag the bottle from the floor by her feet
towards the glass.  She will drink the drugged wine so the way will
be clear to enter the Secret Garden.  Next we need to find a way
into the Secret Garden and for this we need the pig-shaped sponge
from the Bathroom.  Get the sponge and first try clicking it on the
steamed up bathroom mirror.  The mirror clears for a moment only so
something more permanent is needed.  Now go to the Garden and click
the sponge on Olly's arm.  It opens the Secret Garden, which can
now by entered by clicking on Pollyanna.  Pick up the stick lying
on the grass and use the sickle moon to cut a lavender leaf from
the top left corner of the screen.  Go to the Bathroom and drop the
lavender leaf into Pollyanna's bathwater, then fill the bottle with
the lavender water it creates.  Pour this lavender water over Olly
in the Loo.  He now smells good and his teeth are clean (remember
cleaning them earlier?) so return to the Bathroom to find a love
note to him from Pollyanna.  Click on it to read it, then click
again to pick it up.  Give it to Olly in the Loo.

Next we need to get him to reply.  Fill the bottle with acid by
clicking it on to the battery in the Loo and then go to the Lab.
Turn the gas on to power the Bunsen burner (the tap is on the top
left of the screen behind the moving bottle) and light it with the
candle or a match.  Pour the acid into the beaker and add the
copper coins.  They melt and boiling produces blue crystals.  Leave
these crystals a while longer till they become white crystals
capable of absorbing water (you can check this in the Library).
Collect them in the salt cellar.  Click the salt cellar in the
Bathroom to clear the condensation and reveal a smiling Olly.

Go back to the Loo to find a love note from him to Pollyanna.
Click on it twice (once to read it, once to pick it up) and deliver
it to Pollyanna in her bath.  Return to the Secret garden and look
at the row of poppies at the back.  There is a fly buzzing about.
Click on it to move it, repeat, and, when it settles on the second
flower from the right, click the arrow icon on to it to enter the
Flower.  There you will see the lovers about to share their first
kiss.  You have completed the Love challenge - check out the
Library and the Chimney for a green book and a red dove with a
bigger star above.

Before leaving the Flower use the net on the fly to catch it.  Take
the fly to the Pantry and drop it on to the meat.  Immediately the
meat becomes alive with maggots so pick up one.  The audio clue
earlier mentioned a warm maggot helps to catch a cold fish so warm
it up by clicking it on Olly's lips in the Hall to get him to blow
on it.  Enter the pond and, when the upper fish has its mouth open,
click the maggot on it to catch it.  A live fish is no use so go to
the House screen and put the fish on the earth beside the pond.
When it dies, pick it up, go back into the Pond and click it on the
eel at the bottom.  When the eel moves out a bit, repeat and you
will have an eel.  Smoke it by clicking it on the Chimney, then
place it on the plate in front of Edward.  Drag the cheese sauce
jug to the plate to cover the eel with sauce, then use the hand
icon to drag both the eel dish and the teacup to Edward to sample.
Look again at the menu and see you have created marshmallows in
chocolate sauce, the very thing to give the prince A Feast of Food
and solve the second challenge.  An orange dove has joined the red
one in the Chimney and the book Edward is reading is now green.

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