Roger Zelazny's Chronomaster - part 1

                  Walkthrough by Darksheer

Notes: Well, though this game looks good it's damn hard!  And I
mean HARD! You lucky guys now have this walkthrough but when you
solve this game by yourself - it's top emotion!  Also know that
there are plenty of ways to solve many of the riddles and I'll try
to mention the places where I know a different way can be taken
but I failed to figure it out.

Every time you return to Jester if there is a message on the
screen - click on it to play a videomessage.  Also note that some
of my sentences are nonsense but they are put there to make it
easier to find hotspots on screen.  And forgive me if my language
isn't as good as you expect.

OK. Let's begin. After a couple of videomessages on your display
turn right and select universe, planet in this universe and
location and sublocation there. ( I will skip this instructions
later in the walkthrough because it's useless to describe and eats
bytes on your HD.) Select Urbs.

URBS

At main Urbs planet select location Sculpture Garden. Talk with
the robot. (This time you can't persuade to move his ass off the
magnetic north but we'll do it later). Walk left or right and
explore other screens at this location. Pick up a rock and crush
it using a hammer from your Tools. While you explore read all the
plaques on the sculptures to get some tips. Return to Jester (your
ship). Select location as Ground Zero City. Pick up rag and
crowbar at the landing site. Go to the north walkway. Use bottled
time on citizen and then another bottled time on bomb; quickly
exit this screen and re- enter it - whoa, the door is now
unreachable. (Note than you can just pass the bomb by and not deal
with it - we'll get in there in more complex way). Return back to
landing site and take eastern walkway.  You enter a museum.
Inside, pry open the container with your crowbar. Pick up a shield
from the container. Pick up a polisher from the floor, use it on
rag and use rag+polisher on the shield.  You will see display
cases in this room but you need only general bars from one of them
- use polished shield to grab them.  Return to the entrance to the
museum and find a spot on the door where an arrow to the right
appears - go there, use elevator to descend a level down, talk
with guard but don't make him angry and walk away. Return to
Jester. Fly to the Fort. Pick up a uniform from the dead body. You
may wear it. Use bottled time on a rocket launcher.  Push button
near it to move rocket up. Exit screen to the south and you will
be on the battlefield. Take both flags. Return to Jester and fly
to the garden. Wear uniform. Go to the statue with a flagpole and
use enemy flag on flagpole (one of 2 flags will do - if you pick
up the wrong one - you won't be able to trick robot).  Go to the
robot and command him to go join the battle - if you did all
correct he will go away. Use resonance tracer. Now fly back to the
fort and there go to the battlefield. Here you should see a bridge
with a scanner nearby. Wear uniform. Use general bars on Korda.
Now you will be authorized to cross the bridge.


Inside the fort you will see a firing squad - use a shield on
every squad member to vaporize them. Pick up a file in the corner
and read it. Then talk to the prisoner. Here you can decide what
approach to take but I chose one to believe his story and to let
him go (and well, I wasn't killed though he escaped - you may try
another approach - it's fun to see 'what if'). Exit to the south
of the screen. Here you will see a distant entrance into some
private area, protected by a code- lock.  Here you can either use
PDA on keylock or use powdered rock on it to get fingerprints.
Either way (though I haven't tested the one with PDA) you come in.
Here after some cut-scenes you are given a choice whether to save
or destroy this universe. Though I am very peaceful dude Korda
died when I chose to save it (it may be triggered by something but
I don't care much about it) - but I suggest to destroy it. Just
after this one you are given a logical puzzle to gain the World
Key if you succeed - you are here on your own though even a
braindead person will solve it in 30 minutes. Just after this you
withstand a Council Of Wise to choose your punishment - I think
the only non-lethal approach is to choose 'Bluff' and then

'Respect' from response variants. You will be freed and now you
can walk to Jester and takeoff Urbs. Aurans awaits!

AURANS

Fly to the location of the Magnetic North. Exit screen. Take a
bottle -it opens and djinni emerge - talk with them and agree to
feed them. When you will get to the new location pick up all the
fruit and an animal carcass. Return to djinni via the carpet. Give
them fruit with following symbols: pillar, cross, burning man,
bread, star and lotus. Take a djinni bottle and a carpet. Return
to Jester, fly to the Canyon. Here walk carefully to avoid
quicksands on your way - rocks will fall into them and you may
pass. Exit screen to the bottom. Look at the beast. Return to
Jester and fly to the Plateau. Exit screen to the northwest. Get
all the rocks, coins from the sand and talk to Arabou The Trader.
Exchange information with him and when you warn him about beast he
gives you a flute. You also need to get sandals from him - you may
give him a bottled time, a carpet or a djinni bottle. The most
preferable is bottled time because you have a lot of them and if
you give him a djinni bottle then you should get it back from him
in exchange to the Emerald Camel from Treasury. Now fly back to
the Canyon and go into the cave - to do this you need to stand
near the last quicksand and use sandals on Korda. Then just come
into the cave. You can try to take a blinking object within a
skull if you want but as I think you can't get it without being
bitten and losing your time. Also note that you get the needle
only when you try taking it twice. But anyway: this item is not
essential. Cross the bridge. Go to another screen. There go to the
southern exit. Here take a cooling feather (take it twice because
first time he'll drop it). Return to the Canyon and go to the
lake. Use feather on lake and cross it after that go to the dead
nomad. Take a turban and mosaic tiles.

Return to Plateau and take a way to the left (not to Arabou) and
you'll come to the lake with backwarding water. Use feather on
lake and then pick up an ice particle from lake. OK, now fly to
Cavern location and enter cave there. Inside, there are many ways
to cross the web walkway: 1) use magic wand on web near you, then
take this enchanted web and use it on Korda - you'll get to the
exit doing this; 2) (this one is slow) use wand on webs but just
walk across them - here you can take a short route but on your way
you'll be bitten by spider and will loose time ... or take a long
way, which doesn't include crossing a place where the hole in the
wall is.

After this navigate a maze until you come to the underground lake.
Try talking with a nomad but he'll vanish. Take a cloth which he
had lost, soak it in the lake. Go into the other cave (not one you
have come from) - and there use your ice lens on big crystal - you
make your lens bright. Use soaked cloth on the emblem on the wall
and a door appears in the cave to the left. Go in there. Use your
lens on the guy with the sword and pick up his sword. Talk to the
cook and after you finish talking use your feather on the fire -
he gives you a canteen. Exit to the left. Use your sword to kill
the spider, talk to gypsy dancer and accept her challenge. Go to
the northwest and use sword to kill the man there. Return to gypsy
and you get her veil. Enchant it with your magic wand. Go to
northwest and further to the north - you'll come to the man with a
telescope. Talk with him and lend a telescope from him for some
coins. You can use screwdriver on the telescope, use lens on the
telescope and then use screwdriver on it again and use your
'fixed' telescope to look at the palace.

Now you'd wish to get there - there are two ways (maybe more - for
example I suppose sandals can help you with this too): 1) use
enchanted veil on Korda and then go to the palace or 2) return
back to the Plateau's lake with backwarding water, fill a canteen
from it and then go to the Canyon and to the place where you can
go down to the screen where the feather was - here is another path
- to the north and on that screen use canteen on Korda and walk to
the palace. Note that the latter way means you need to leave
Cavern - to do this you need to take water from underground lake.
And as I recently was told there IS a way to get to caverns again
(because when you first go there rocks fall to barricade exit) -
it is: fix your turban with a needle, enchant it with magic wand,
wear it and go to the place with a talking (if you use wand on it)
sign near the place where you got the feather.


Go to the right of that and talk with nomad and walk into the
twister. If you will need there to go into the caverns (because
you will be brought to nomad's camp) then use a flute on the crack
in the cave wall to crawl inside. And to go back to the camp just
open the door. Anyway, you get inside the palace - here you can
talk with charlatans who are trying to get easy money from
tourists: a poor woman, wealthy oracle, magician - all of them are
willing to get a ruby from the treasury - but don't bother - if
you give it to them later - they just tell you nonsense and that's
all! Though you can buy a bowl from a poor woman.

After the screen with a magician you will come into the room with
a guard - you can talk with him, then give him your sword and
he'll let you in, but there is a beast inside. Sorry, can't
provide you with info on how to get rid of the beast, I have heard
rumors that it is done with a bowl and some food - (poisoned?) but
we'll get to harem in a different way. Return to previous screen -
take a left walkway, talk with a bathing man, use bottled time on
water, then mosaic tiles on the water - you'll complete a tile
image. Return to the room with 3 walkways - take a right one, talk
to the guard, enter treasury.  Here you can take not more than 3
items (note that though you can take 3rd item - you'll be whisked
away from palace and will have to get there again. You can take :
a)emerald camel - it is a MUST if you gave a djinni bottle to
Arabou - go and change it for bottle b) coins - I don't see any
sense in taking them either c) ruby - if you want to bring it to
one of the charlatans at the palace entrance - come and see by
yourself. Now push the pedestal with ruby, push the tapestry, push
the mattress where the emerald camel is standing and go into the
hole.

In harem there is only one girl which will talk to you - chat with
her and give her a djinni bottle as the answer to her riddle (I
believe there is only one riddle in her database, otherwise you
are on your own). Immediately after that you are provided with a
'World Key' puzzle : it is to compose an Aurans symbol from many
pieces. If you can't seem to understand what does the picture look
like - restore your previous savegame and look for this symbol in
the Caverns, near underground lake. After this return to Jester
and takeoff to your next location - Fortuna universe.

FORTUNA

After your arrival at the Pyramid Casino you will be met by
Alachra and his guys. He will give you some gambling chips. Go
right twice.  Talk to the officer, try to enter the ship (you will
fail). Use PDA on security droid and go to the ship's compartment.
Pull the lever. The door is codelocked and you don't know the
password. Return 2 screens back and use the elevator. You can
wander here for some time and by the way talk with bartender but
don't choose 'Barter' option for now.  Pick up a camera in the bar
- it's lying on the empty table. Go to the elevator and descend
one stair. Go to the performing band and talk with its leader.
They need a glifnod player! Return to the hall and go left to the
poker tables. At one of the tables you can pick up a dice scoop.
Find one of the dealers who will talk to you and he will tell you
that he is an ex-glifnod player. and ask for his lucky coin.
Return to the transportation officer (the one who stood near the
ship, where is a codelocked door), talk with him and use a camera

on him to get a badge photo. Now go back to the elevator and
descend 3 times (maximum).

Here talk to the beggar, accept his advice and get a card lying
near him. Use badge photo on the gate and enter the train. Enter
the saloon. Chat with piano player.  Get a gun, lying on the
barrel. Enter the next screen. Use chips on players to join their
game. Use the "DISCARD AND DRAW" option when the cards are dealt -
you will win and players will leave. Use resonance tracer here.
Return to the Casino. Go to Jester. You can fly to the planet
called Tracks in Fortuna system. When a man asks for your bet
choose 1st response option. Return to casino. You can go and give
away a half of your money to the beggar who told you how to bet (I
don't know why you should share your money with him - is it a kind
of moral test?). Now you can go to the bar and buy every item you
wish and still have chips after that (though I haven't found how
to use almost all of these items).

Go left, talk to the successful gambler and give her rabbit's
foot. Go to the fountain and pick the lucky coin out of it with a
dice scoop. You can now go and return it to the dealer who asked
for it (why he is not rushing out to play his $#@#*&# glifnod
after this is beyond me!). Also use a processor which you bought
from the bartender on your PDA to upgrade it. Walk to the security
desk. Talk with guard and you can buy out dealer's glifnod by
using chips on her (don't bother about his debts).  Use PDA on her
for PDA to make a diversion so she walks away from her desk.  (I
think there is another way, which uses a rat from the saloon
somehow). Push the button, open the box and get an electromagnetic
chip. Upgrade your PDA with it. Return coin and glifnod to the
dealer, pick up a badge he leaves and go to the band leader.  Use
a probability driver on dealer's badge to make up a security
badge.  Talk with her. Now go to the set of poker tables which is
opposite to the one you were now - to the right of the main hall.
Here go into the distant door (don't forget to open it!). While
navigating tunnels, pick up a pail with paint on your way.

When you come into the dead end open the panel and use ladder to
go down. When you leave ladder open a floor panel and get a
decelerator from there. Go further. You will see a passage to your
right on your way - go in there. Talk with alien and show him your
badge when he asks for it.  Push the bin so it covers the bomb and
then pull rope the aliens are tied with to free them. Pick up a
decoder. After you talk with aliens you can pull all the switches
in the room to see what every of them does control. One of them
enables a cheat system on one of the slot machines so you can go
there and play it. Another switch shows you another chronomaster
entering his ship. Use probability driver on the screen where you
saw him entering ship. You get the password: "Pasqua Wipeout". And
also another switch opens heavy doors to the elevator and another
one opens a roof above the spaceport (you must open it to leave
Fortuna). Now go to the ship and open compartment with this
password. Open toolbox there, take a lockpick. Use a hammer on the
lockpick twice.

Now go all the way through the tunnels until you come to a sort of
the elevator. Use your voice decoder on the voice encoder to
activate it. Go further until you come to the locked door. Use
lockpick on the door panel.  Enter door. Talk to Milo. Don't
arrest him but aid him. After he leaves you are provided with a
'World Key' puzzle. Its objective - press the panels which the
computer has played - 1st time one panel, 2nd time - 2 panels etc.
After you are done return to Milo's ship and talk with
transportation officer, talk to Milo. Use bottled time on the pail
of paint and use this fake PDA on officer. Now you can leave the
planet - go to Jester and takeoff. See a movie. After it ends you
can choose where to fly next - to Cabal or Verdry.  Let's go to
Cabal first.

@~To be concluded next issue









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