GILBERT GOODMATE
           AND THE MUSHROOM OF PHUNGORIA - part 1

                  Solution by Peter Clark

After the introductory sequence, you find yourself in your room.
Pick up the pillow from the bed then leave the house and make your
way around the house to the garden. Pick up the resin from under
the window and the sap from the tree. Take the long johns from the
washing line. You can now see the crank handle for the lift on the
side of the washtub. The long johns are no further use. They were
just hiding the crank handle.  Now go to the lift and use the
handle with the winch. It will break.

Go inside the house and open the cabinet. Take the toiletries
case. Inside the case is some hair grease. Take the biscuit
ingredients from beside the mixer and combine them with the sap,
the resin and the hair grease in the mixer. Use the resulting glue
on the crank handle. You can now leave the house and go down in
the lift. You find yourself in the Town Square. Princess Michelle
will talk to you about disguising yourself as the king. She tells
you what you must find to make the disguise.

When you have finished you can talk to Saul the shoemaker. Make
sure that you ask him about the PVA and find out how many members
it has. Ask him if he knows what happened to your grandfather.
When he tells off the sock, you may leave the square and find the
boy that is crying.  Talk to him and you will find out that he has
taken a false nose from the toy machine. This is one of the items
needed for your disguise. He also tells you about Mad Pete. Go to
find him in the tower.

The Tower.

Keep talking to Mad Pete and make sure that you tell him that you
can see approaching Vikings and ask him about his cannon.

Eventually he will brandish a large sword. When you get the
opportunity, pick up the sword and use it to push the loose stone
on the wall in front of the cannon. It falls down below smashing
the toy machine and allowing the sad boy to get the slingshot that
he wanted. Go back down the tower and pick up the false nose that
the sad boy dropped when he collected his slingshot. You also find
a bottle of bubble bath.  Return to Saul, the shoemaker.

Saul, the Shoemaker.

On the stand you will find a tin of shoe polish. Pick this up and
use it with the sock in your inventory. Give the resulting black
sock to Saul who will give you a pair of pink slippers in
exchange. Now go to the Docks.

The Docks.

Look at the old sailor who is sitting on the steps doing some
carving. Look at the shark's jawbone above the door. Now talk to
the old sailor about everything that you are able. At the end of
the conversation go across and talk to the shifty looking
character. Make sure that you accuse him of being a drug dealer
and, when you leave him he should give you some sleeping powder.

Enter the Inn. Inside the Inn, talk to the old Viking sitting by
the table. At the end of the conversation you will be able to give
him the slippers. If you have completed all these tasks, you
should be able to leave the Inn and watch the old sailor go to
sleep. When he does, you may go to him and pick up his knife. Now
go to the Jail.

Outside Jail.

Talk to Arver. Keep talking and use all of the dialogue choices.
Now talk to him again and you will get his cornflake box.  Examine
this in your inventory and you see that there is a crown on the
back. Use the knife to cut it out, pick up the poetry book and go
to the Smithy.

Smithy's

At the Smithy's use the knife to cut the wire from the telephone
exchange and use it on the crown in your inventory. Now pick up
the glove that is lying by the anvil. When you have the glove go
to Madame Zyzs and talk to her. Find out where she buys her
crystal balls. Now go to Elton's.

Outside Elton's

Elton is an inventor and he has an intercom by his front door.
Use the intercom and you are offered three choices to identify
yourself. Unfortunately, the intercom does not work correctly and
you fail to gain entry. Keep trying and eventually you will get
fed up and knock the door. You make your way inside.

Inside Elton's.

Pick up the blueprint by the door and look at it in your
inventory. You can turn it over and see some instructions on how
to slaughter a pig. Now pick up the quill pen and the inkpot.
Examine the vacuum cleaner, pick it up and then go back outside.


Outside Elton's.

Examine the pile of junk by the door and pick up the metal bar.
Now look up and examine the bras on the washing line. Talk to
Louise about them and about all other subjects. You will
eventually be asked to deliver the bras to their owner. When you
have them in your inventory, join them together to make a bungee
rope. Now go to the Farm.

At the Farm.

Use the sword on the sheep to get some wool. Try to show the
blueprint to the pig. She is shy and runs away from you. Go and
talk to the farmer. Talk about everything. This will take a fair
while but the pig sees you talking to the farmer and gains
confidence. The farmer will also give you a corncob.

Go back and show the blueprint to the pig again. This time she
runs from the farm and the farmer goes after her. Take the cloak
and the straw from the scarecrow and the bag of corn from near the
door. Now, in your inventory, put the straw into the pillow and
the resulting full pillow into the cloak. Add the remaining items
for your disguise, the nose, the crown then watch the video as you
play the part of the King and gain another week to clear your
Grandfather before he is executed.

At Home.

You are now back at your house so go to the garden and use the
vacuum cleaner on the bees. You automatically get some honey and
some bees wax. Now return to the town and go to the Docks.

The Docks.

Use the glove on the barrel of tar and then use the tar on the
sack. Now use the wool on the tar-covered sack. Go into the Inn
and use the beeswax on the Viking's key to make an impression.
Pick up the clean napkin from the table and the lipstick stained
one from the floor.

Mr Davenport should be in the Inn so talk to him and he will give
you a clue as to where to get a crystal ball.  While you are in
the town, go up the tower to Crazy Pete and the cannon. Put the
clean napkin over the front sight of the cannon.  This has a
picture of the ship on it and Crazy Pete thinks that the Vikings
are coming and starts firing wildly out to sea. Saul will join you
at the top of the tower.  Take this opportunity to go down and
back to Saul's shoe shop.  Pick up the drive belt from the sewing
machine and go to The Bridge.

The Bridge.

Before you do anything else, use the quill pen in your
inventory on the inkbottle and then on the poetry book. You
will write a love poem on the lipstick stained napkin. Now talk to
the guard.  Make sure that you ask him about his helmet.

He tells you that he has been studying under Master Lee. Talk to
him about boredom and about girls. He will eventually tell you
that he fancies Sarah from the Inn. Now you can give him the
napkin with the poem on it.  He leaves to meet Sarah and you are
free to open the gate and go to Lenny's Cave Shop.

Cave Shop.

Talk to Lenny about not being a spy and about crystal balls.
Eventually, he will tell you how much they are. You haven't enough
money so leave and go back to town. Go outside Elton's ands swap
the fake dog for the real one. Now go inside Elton's.

Inside Elton's.

Talk to Elton and try to use the time machine closet on the right
hand side. He will stop you. Ask him to demonstrate it for you. He
will not want to at first but if you tell him that you don't
believe that it will work and use the most complicated reasons why
not, he will eventually agree to show you. He tells the robot to
move some of the boxes but it breaks down. Use the drive belt from
the sewing machine on the robot and all will be well.

Elton goes into the time machine. Pick up the broken spring from
the floor by the robot and leave. Go to the Blacksmith's Shop.
Give the key impression and the dog to the blacksmith and he will
make you a key for the Viking's Tower.  Now go to the Tower.

Viking's Tower.

Talk to the guard and keep asking him what would happen if.? Next,
taunt him about his slowness. He will think of various ways to get
down the tower quickly one of which is a bungee rope. Give him the
bungee rope from your inventory and he will try it out entangling
himself in the process. You will now be able to use the key to
unlock the door and go inside.  Here you will get some money for
the crystal ball and a ticket to the Viking Slave Ball. Now leave
and go to the Cave Shop.  Try to buy a crystal ball. Larry manages
to break them all and gives you a crowbar instead. Leave the cave
and go to the Bridge where you should go beneath the bridge and
get the wooden cannon balls from the water. Use them with the
metal bar in your inventory to make a barbell weight. Now go
through the door and talk to Lipton about his military campaigns
and about the special un-named tea. You discover that he needs
some sweetener and a fine filter for his tea. Leave his house and
go to the town. Visit the Jail..

...We'll go there next issue!














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