The Mystery of the Druids - Part 2

                  Walkthrough by Tally Ho

Concluded from last issue

Arthur Blake

Take the book to Arthur Blake and let him translate the parchment
for you. Talk with him and Melanie, who seems a bit
over-protective at the moment. Suddenly, in the midst of the
conversation, a tremor begins, frightening you into leaving. The
house is struck by a shell, or a bolt of magic or something, and
erupts in flames. Blake is lost. We have nothing left to do but
head for twelve-bridges and try to save the world . . . .  WORLDS!

Twelve-Bridges

Have some conversation but don't get too-too personal. After all,
we are professionals. Go look at the Caution sign, and take the
boards with you. Head up the only available bridge, the one that
appears to be in the best repair. Use a board to create a
temporary bridge. Use the other board to step forward. Keep
cycling the boards until you get to the other side. Melanie will
follow, barely escaping the ultimate collapse. There's no going
back now. Have a look at those scales. That mechanism should lift
the door, if we can find the correct weight. Do we have anything
that might weight more than it looks? Something magical perhaps?
Put the amulet in the tub and up it goes. You can't just walk in
and leave the amulet behind however, you need to prop up the door
so you can take it with you. Use the remaining board to hold up
the door. Crouching down, you and Melanie go inside and look
around. More Druid symbols on the floor, and another tub. Go back
outside to the scale and remove the screw on the left side, taking
it and the heavy hook with you.  Then go into the tower and pull
the wooden board out from under the door, allowing the tub and
hourglass to rise. Look closely at the hourglass, and remove the
screw, using the broken scissors. Put the hook into the square
opening, and enjoy the scene!

Part Two: One Thousand Years Ago

The Soldiers' Camp

You arrive, seemingly where you left off, at the Gate of the
Worlds. Upon looking outside, however, the bridges appear intact,
nearly new. Some soldiers approach. Ooops, they are not so
friendly. Melanie finds herself in a medieval kitchen. Look to the
far right for a cookbook. Read the recipes. Go into the dining
room and talk with the soldiers. They believe you are a Danish spy
preparing for an invasion of England. No wonder they're
unfriendly.

Go back to the kitchen, then return to the dining room. It's
payday, and the mood has greatly improved. They mention one-ounce
pieces of silver. An ounce-weight could be useful. Talk with them,
offering to make a love-potion, and compliment them on their
equipment. Then, as the soldier is more relaxed, take a coin from
the pouch hanging from the back of his chair. Find it just under
his elbow as he drinks.

Back to the kitchen, wench! They are expecting a love-potion, but
would seem prudent to concoct a sleeping drink instead. Go to the
shelves at the left of the fireplace and take a copper scale-pan
from the bottom shelf. Put it on the scale. From the middle shelf
you can pick up several herbs. Right-click in your inventory to
get a description of each one. From left to right:  menthol,
unknown leaves, cinnamon, fleshy leaves, anise, and spongy leaves.
Well, that's not much help, the recipe calls for crimson (red) and
other colors. We will have to test the herbs to see what color
they turn when wet. On the table by the door is a wooden bowl.
Take it and use it to scoop water from the cauldron. Don't you
just love it? She puts a bowl of boiling water in her pocket! What
will they think of next?

Anyway, go to the scale and put the coin in the right side.
Choose an herb, crush an ounce of it and put it back. Then, in
inventory, put the crushed herb into the water bowl to learn what
color it becomes. The recipe says one ounce crimson, one of
golden, and two of ounce and ounce makes green. We find out that
there is no green herb, but we know that blue and yellow create
green; thus another yellow and one blue would do the job. Here's
the colors: Menthol=white; Unknown=yellow; Cinnamon=red;
Fleshy=light brown; Anise=blue; and Spongy=violet. Crushing and
adding one ounce at a time, it calls for two cinnamon, two
unknown, and one anise. There, the water turns clear.

Time to feed the boys on the home front. They get groggy, but do
not sleep. Go to the kitchen for a moment, and return to find them
passed out.  Take the key from the blond fellow. You can look at
the left-hand end of the room if you like, but the exit is locked.
Go down the cellar stairs to find Brent whining in his cell. Let
him out. If you tried the key upstairs, you know it's the wrong
one. Go left, to the big crates. They're heavy, but the two of you
are up to the job. Find the secret exit and proceed. It looks like
a maze, but don't worry. Just proceed, following Brent's voice
until "Groan ..." You are seized, not to be seen as Melanie for a
while.


In the Monastery

Halligan wakes up in the monastery. Looking around, there is a
yoke on the floor (no thanks), a bed, and a great view. Turning
away from the view, we are greeted by Brother Maglor. He is
friendly, it seems, and informs us that our arrival was expected,
and that it's our responsibility to save the world ... WORLDS!
Serstan is the bad guy, and all the things Blake warned about are
true, and we are in the thick of it. We will have the run of the
place, that is, until the day of our execution. Huh? Nobody said
that was part of the deal. Seems we need to find the room with the
crystal ball.

The first room on the left (Halligan's right) is Brother Maglor's.
Go in and talk to him as much as possible. Serstan has perfected
the ritual and must be stopped. It will take place at Stonehenge,
only 2 days and six hours from now. We are probably honored
guests, if you get my drift. The next room is a storehouse for
foodstuffs. Mind the rats! Next view down shows three doors. The
one on the right has books on a table, and the fire's out. The
middle door is not accessible, and the one up the steps leads to a
mysterious room with a huge portal, barred and locked. Go back out
and around the corner by your room. The first door on the right
(H's left) goes outside to the interior courtyard you saw out the
window. Go right (H's left), and visit the blacksmith. Talk to him
about everything, including his village, and unusual things
happening. Look around the back of the shop and see the shield
with the same symbol; wavy lines and an X. Outside, look at the
other side of the shop and see the chimney blocked by a bird's
nest. No wonder the fire doesn't burn.

Go back and investigate the other end of the courtyard. There is a
garden, a drain, a rusty pipe, further on there are stables, hay
and a pitchfork, a cistern full of water, and a valve. I feel a
plan coming on, but what? Time will tell, I'm sure. Go back
inside.  Across the hall is a large double door. Look in, and find
a large conference-table, complete with familiar signs. At the far
end is a device like a slide rule. We need clues to solve that
one. The small door leads into the library. Guess who's doing her
homework? Melanie convinces us that she is doing the right thing,
and persuades us to keep looking around. Next door is the kitchen.
Eeek! Mind the bloody rats! Where's Garfield when you really need
him? Over on the right sideboard is an iron crucible. Take it.
Over on the other side of the room, past the stove, is a table
with some herbs. Take them. See the hatch to the dining room? You
can open and close it. You can also open and close it from the
other side, which is obviously the next room. There is someone
sitting there, but he does not talk to us.

The next room is Serstan's. Enter and talk with him, You will find
you just how imperious he is. He kicks you out. Next roon, the
fire's working, but little else to do. Next, you will find the
candlery. Take some candles and go back to the room with the
working fire. Place the crucible on the fire, then the candles in
the crucible. You have a block of wax.

Go back outside to the garden. Put the herbs on the drain,
blocking it. Turn the valve on the rusty pipe. Then go all the way
back to the cistern and open the valve, letting the water flood
the garden and drive some earthworms out of the soil. Take the
worms. Go to the far side of the Smithy's shop and climb up to the
roof. Put the worms on the roof, luring the crow away from her
nest. Pull down the nest, allowing the fire to work properly.
Speak to the smith. He is grateful, sort of. He might help
someday. Go around back of the shop again, farther until you find
a chopping block and axe. Take a chip of wood from the block.

Go back inside and visit Serstan again. He throws you out. Visit
him again and ask to watch. He doesn't care, as long as you don't
touch anything. Notice the artwork: Three of the four pieces that
you saw in Sinclair's house. The view out one window shows the
garden and cistern. The other window reveals the sea, the garden
and a stairway. Find the Secret compartment in the wall behind
Serstan, just to the right of the window. Put the piece of wood in
there. Now go visit Maglor and ask him for undisturbed access to
Serstan's room. "That settles it." Grudgingly, he will try. Return
to Serstan's empty room.  Serstan has closed the secret
compartment with a block. Must be something valuable in there. You
can pull out the block because the little piece of wood prevented
its being seated properly. Take out the red chest and place it on
the stool. Open the chest, take the key and make an impression in
the wax. Put the key back, take the wood chip out of the hole, and
replace the chest and block. You want the room to appear
undisturbed.

Go to the Blacksmith and convince him to make a key from the wax
impression. It will take some time, so let's visit Melanie and see
if she has learned anything. She has, but it's not much help.  The
main reason for seeing her is to allow the smithy enough time to
cast the key. Go back and get the key. Make your way to the large
doors that are locked and barred. Unlock both padlocks and remove
the beam. Enter.

Okay, does anyone hate mazes more than I do? This one's a real
doozy! I cannot take credit for solving it. What makes it
difficult is the fact that going back the way you seemingly came
does not necessarily take you backwards. You can end up at a
different location. In fact, the path you need to take actually
has you stepping into the door you arrived at four times. The
shortest path is only ten steps long, if you do it correctly. If
you have the (insanity) patience, you could map the maze functions
and figure it out, because each node is coded with a runic symbol.
Probably they relate to the way the maze works, but I'll leave
that up to the more intrepid player to discover. For a quick route 
through this mess, you enter at a three-door gate. The blue glow
is seen in the background. Take the Right doorway. The complete 
solution is Right, Centre, Right, Right, LEFT, Left, THIRD,
Centre, RIGHT, RIGHT. The CAPITALS instructions indicate that
you turn and go back into the same door. 

Cross the open area and discover a stone wall decorated with
relief carvings. Examine them. Turn around and close the wooden
door, and the eye will open, revealing a tunnel. You have found
the Crystal ball! Look into it. Huh? Stonehenge, but it should be
intact, not in ruins. Look around the perimeter of the room. You
find two rod-and-ball devices similar to the one in the conference
room. One is whole, the other destroyed. Let's go back into the
monastery. Maybe we can find Maglor and get some enlightenment.


Look in the conference room. He is there, next to the Library
door. He tells us that those devices are calendars, and that
Serstan controls things by adjusting them.  We learn that the
current date is represented on the calendar in this room. Let's
have a look. If this thing is a calendar, then the segmented bars
must represent weeks, days, months, or whatever the Druid calendar
was composed of. The top bar has 14 segments, the second 6, the
third 4, the fourth 8, and the bottom one 12. The balls are set,
from bottom to top, 5, 4, 3, 3, 2. That should be easy enough to
remember.

Go to the crystal ball room. Don't worry, the maze remains solved.
Set the calendar to match the one upstairs, ignoring the two new
rods that Serstan installed at the top. Start from the bottom and
set them 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Look in the crystal ball now.  Apparently
the calendar here controls the view in the crystal ball.
Stonehenge is in good condition. Now set the calendar for the time
of the ritual; two days from now, so slide the ball on the third
rod (days) from one to three; the second one represents day and
night, so it's already correct, and the top rod should be on six,
for the hours. Now look in the crystal ball again. Oh!  Better go
find Maglor and tell him what's up. Go to your room; he will find
you. You talk, and Serstan decides to put an end to your antics.
Take the bedsheet, make a hole in it with the candle, go to the
window, and click on the temple in the distance. Geronimo!

The makeshift parachute works remarkably well, given the
circumstances. Unfortunately, Serstan hurls a magic bolt and hits
Maglor in the back; you land in the stream. Go back and find
Maglor. He is badly injured, and when you convince him you can
help, he suggests mistletoe. It's nearby, at the base of a tree
(mistletoe usually grows high up in a tree, we'll forgive them)
behind some nettles. Use the gloves to part the nettles and grab
the mistletoe. Too late. Maglor is gone. Take the gyro-top from
his pocket and go into the Left Temple.

The Left Temple

Inside the entrance is a table with circular scratch marks. Use
the top, and the cylinder opens. Go in, and it turns, depositing
you in another area. Enter it again, and you see a column. Take
the flint. Go up the stairs and take the scoop. Into the cylinder
twice, and see a leather flask. You can't pick it up. Upstairs,
take the small shovel. Into the roundabout twice, and on the
column is a bowl of water. Use the scoop to take some. Upstairs is
another flint. (you have one, you don't need two.) Two turns and
find a bowl of earth. (The "Earth" looks like it's been through
the horse. LOL!) Use the shovel to take some. Upstairs, take the
bellows. Into the cylinder again, to the leather flask (four
turns).  Use the bellows to draw out the gaseous contents. It's
Air, by the way. Into the roundabout until you come to the
entrance, and leave the building. Go to the right temple.

The Right Temple

In the center of the temple is an altar, on which is a key you
cannot take. It needs to be released somehow. Look in the
individual rooms, starting with the one to the left of the
entrance (H's right); proceeding counter-clockwise. The first room
has a cage-like device with some straw in it. On the right side is
a padlock. Close-up, it looks just like the Amulet of
Transformation. Do you suppose? Yes, the amulet opens the lock.
Open the cage, use your flint to strike a fire, take the torch
from the wall above, and light the torch. Close the cage. Apply
the torch to the grate below the basin to start the flame. Look

out the window and see the megalith. Listen: It sounds faintly
like fire out there, too.

Go to the next room and see the vessel with the symbol for air.
Use your bellows to put air into the chamber. Light the fire
underneath, and look out the window to see the stone and hear
water running. Hmmm: Fire and Air can make water?  (Lightning?) Go
past the locked door to the next room. The vessel has the symbol
for water. Lift the top and pour in the water. Light the flame,
see the stone out the window and hear the wind blowing.  Hmmm:
Fire and water can make air? (Steam?)

In the last room, the vessel has the symbol for earth. Open it and
put in the earth sample. Light the fire, and see the megalith and
again hear the wind blow. Hmmm: Fire and Earth can make Air?
(gases?) You see the magic shield around the altar turn off.  Go
to the altar, take the key, unlock the blue door and proceed
downstairs.

On the way down, you will come across some "slits in the wall."
They contain stone tiles with the elemental symbols on them.
There will be eight tiles in all. Some of them are hard to see.
As a help, whenever there is one tile at a location, there 
is always another. Two sets look like this, and two are a 
different view, looking down. In that case, the easy - to - 
see ones are higher up, and the hard ones are just about
shoulder - height.

Gather all eight tiles and head into the chamber below. Take care,
because of the stairs, your orientation is different. The elements
are arranged in the same sequence as above, but whereas upstairs
you entered between fire and earth, now you enter between earth
and water. Look in one of the rooms. You will see a pedestal and a
megalith. The object here is to distribute the tiles so that the
pedestal receives a tile corresponding to the starting element as
above; and the accompanying megaliths will receive a tile
representing how the element is changed. So the first one you come
to counter-clockwise should be earth. Place an earth-tile on the
pedestal and an air-tile in the stone. Then, in the next room,
place fire in both. In the third room, use air on the pedestal and
water in the megalith. Finally, water on the pedestal and air in
the stone.

The shield drops, and you can take the staff from the altar.
Serstan comes in, with Melanie as hostage. You negotiate with
Serstan, and insist that he swear on his honour that nothing will
happen to either you or Melanie. Then, he begins the ritual, and
sends you through the gate of the worlds to the present. Off to
Stonehenge, then, for it must be time for the ritual at Sinclair's
hands. Cruel as it may be, there is only one logical way to
disrupt the proceedings. Serstan swore that nothing would happen,
so conscience set aside, and for the good of the world ...
worlds; take your hedge-clippers and use them on Melanie.  She
dies; Serstan's vow is broken, and Sinclair falls victim to his
own evil. The neo-Druids do not exist. Now are only problem is
Melanie. Do we have any way to save her? Did we almost save
Maglor? Hopefully, a thousand-year-old sprig of mistletoe will
help. Ahhhhh!

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Just a quick note: when I arrived at the final scene, and Sinclair
started to cut his throat, the game crashed. It was because I used
the full install, and it is not quite complete. If you have this
happpen, delete (or rename) the Disk2 folder, and replay the
ending with the CD "The Past" in the drive.
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