MYSTERY OF THE DRUIDS - Part 2

                  Solution by Peter Clark

Concluded from last issue

Part Two - A Thousand Years Ago.

You are still on the island in the centre of the Twelve Bridges
but it is now in good shape and in use. Two soldiers approach you
and you are captured. This part is now played as Melanie.

Soldier's Camp.

Go to the left and find a cookery book. Read the recipes then go
into the Dining Room and talk to the soldiers. It seems that you
have been mistaken for a Danish spy. Go into the Kitchen and
return again to the Dining Room and you learn that it is pay day
and the soldier has a bag of one ounce silver pieces hanging on
the bag of his chair. Talk to him and get the conversation around
to where you are able to offer to make a love potion for him. When
he becomes friendlier, take a coin from the bag on his chair. You
now have to make the love potion. Go back into the kitchen and
look at the shelves to the left of the fire. On the bottom shelf
you will find a copper pan.  Take this and put it on the balance.
Go back to the shelves and pick up some of the herbs from all of
the pots on the middle shelf.

You can get a description of each one by right clicking on it in
your inventory. What we have to do is to mix up a sleeping potion
rather than a love potion. In the recipe book you will find that
you need crimson and some other colours.  We have to test the
herbs to see what colour they produce in water. Go to the bench by
the door and pick up the wooden bowl. Dip it in the cauldron on
the fire to fill it with water. Now test each herb by crushing it
into the balance pan.  (Just click the herb on the pan to do
this.) Now use the crushed herb on the filled bowl in your
inventory. You can empty the wooden bowl into the barrel by the
table between tests. You will find out that there is no green herb
but you can get this by mixing blue and yellow. The solution is: -
two ounces of cinnamon, two of the unknown herb and one of
aniseed. The mixture should turn clear. Now go and give this to
the soldiers. They get sleepy but do not immediately sleep. Go
into the kitchen and then return to find them sleeping like
babies.

Get the key from the blonde soldier and then go left and try the
door. It is locked so go down the cellar steps and you find Brent.
Talk to him and let him out of the cell. You know that the other
door upstairs is locked and you do not have the key so go over to
the large crates and try to move them. You cannot but Brent comes
to help and you find a secret passage behind them. This looks like
a maze but just keep following Brent's voice until you get
captures again. Now you revert to playing as Brent and wake up in
a monastery.

In the Monastery.

Look around the room and make sure that you look out of the
windows. When you do this a monk enters the room. He introduces
himself as Maglor and tells you that you were expected. There is a
lot of dialogue here, which lets you know that you have only a
short time before you and Melanie are to be executed. You must
find the room with the crystal ball in it.  You are told that you
have free run of the monastery. Leave the room and go into the
room next door. Maglor is here so talk to him about everything
then look into the next room. This is a food store. Go further on
and you see three doors. The one up the steps leads to a strange
room with a large locked door.  The centre one is unavailable to
you and the right hand one has some books on a table and a fire
that has gone out. Go back towards your room and then go right. Go
through the door on the right of the screen and you will be
outside. Go up to the right of the screen to the Blacksmith's.
Talk to him about everything including anything strange that has
happened recently. Now look in the back of the shop and you see a
shield with the same symbols on that you have seen before.  Go out
and look at the other side of the shop and you see that the
chimney is blocked by a birds-nest.

Go back past the blacksmith shop and the door into the monastery
and you will see a vegetable garden. Look closely and you see a
drain by the edge. There is also a rusty pipe that terminates by
the vegetable patch. A bit further on you find stables, hay, a
pitchfork and a cistern full of water. Go back inside the
monastery and through the double doors on the opposite side of the
passage. This is some sort of meeting room. Look at the far end
and you see a sort of frame with sliding balls on. Back near the
door the large table has the same symbols on as you saw in the
blacksmith's shop. There is also a smaller door that leads into
the Library. In here you will meet Melanie again.  Talk to her and
she persuades you to keep on looking around the monastery. Leave
the meeting room and work your way around the monastery looking in
each room. Next-door is the kitchen, complete with rats. On a
bench by the door is a metal crucible. Pick this up and then open
and close the serving hatch into the next room. Near the hatch you
can pick up a bunch of herbs. If you go into the next room, there
is a monk there who will not speak to you. The next room should be
Serstan's. Go inside and talk to him until he throws you out.

The next room has its fire lit but there is nothing else here of
interest. The room next door should be full of candles. Take some
and return to the room where the fire was burning. Put the
crucible on the fire and the candles in the crucible. You will end
up with a block of wax.  Return to the outside and place the bunch
of herbs over the drain in the vegetable patch. Turn the tap on
the rusty pipe and then go to the water cistern. Turn on the tap
here and the water flows into the vegetable patch forcing some
earthworms to come out of the ground. You can now return to the
vegetable patch and pick them up. Go back to the blacksmith's shop
and climb onto the roof.  Drop the worms to attract the bird from
its nest and then push the nest from the chimney. The forge now
starts working and you can go back and talk to the blacksmith. He
is grateful and says that he will help you in the future if he
can. Leave and go back around the blacksmith's to where you see a
chopping block and an axe.  There is a chip of wood on the block.
Take this and return inside the monastery. Go to Serstan's room
again and talk to him. You will be thrown out again but go inside
again and ask him if you can watch him work. You will agree and
you can have a good look at the pictures and the views from the
windows.

In the wall behind Serstan there is a secret compartment. It is
just to the right of the window and just below the level of the
bottom sill. Look in it and you see that it is currently empty.
Put the chip of wood into the open compartment. Now leave and go
to Maglor. Ask him if he can get Serstan out of his room long
enough for you to have a real search around. He agrees to try and
leaves. Go back to Serstan's room and you find that he has left.
Because you put the chip of wood in the back of the compartment,
it has not closed completely and you can open it again. Take the
red chest and put it on the stool. Open it and take out the key.
Use it with the wax block to get an impression then put the key
back in the chest, take the chip of wood from the compartment and
then replace the chest and the block so that everything looks as
though it has never been touched. Take the impression to the
blacksmith and convince him to make a key for you. This will take
time so go back to the library and talk to Melanie for a while to
see what she has discovered.  Now you can go and get the key from
the blacksmith. Go back into the monastery and through the door at
the top of the steps into the room with the blue glow. You can use
the key to open the locked doors but SAVE YOUR GAME FIRST.

Maze.

This is a rotten maze, as going in one direction and then
retracing your steps does not necessarily bring you back to your
starting place. There are symbols by each doorway that might have
some bearing on how the maze is solved but I did it by trial and
error. It took a long time but this is the way to do it.
Underlined directions mean that you should go back the way that
you came.

Right, Centre, Right, Right, Left, Left, Third, Centre, Right,
Right.

Crystal Ball Room.

Cross the open space and you find a wall with stone carvings on
it. Look at them then turn around and close the wooden doors. The
stone eye will open revealing the room in which you can find the
crystal ball. Look in the ball and you see Stonehenge but it is
still in ruins. Is this right? Look around the perimeter of the
room and you see two pieces of equipment similar to that seen in
the Conference Room. One is broken but the other seems in good
shape. Leave the room and go back through the maze. You do not
have to solve the maze each time that you need to get to the
crystal ball thank goodness. Go into the Conference Room.

Monastery.

Go back to the Conference Room and talk to Maglor. He tells you
that the ball and rod objects are, in fact, calendars. Look at the
one in the Conference Rom and you see that the balls are arranged
in segments. From the bottom rod upwards, they are placed in the
5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd, and 1st segments. Remember this, as you will
need it later. Go back to the room with the crystal ball in it and
set the calendar there to the same as the other one in the
Conference Room. Look in the ball and Stonehenge will be seen in
good order.

Go back to the calendar and set the ball on the top rod to six,
leave the second one where it is and set the third one down to
three.  Look in the crystal ball again and you see some sort of
sacrifice taking place. Go back and find Maglor. He can be found
in your room. Talk to him and Serstan who is after you will
interrupt you. Lock the door and take the sheet from the bed if
you haven't already got it. Use it on the candle to make a
parachute and jump from the window towards the temples that you
can see in the distance. Serstan fires a fireball at you and
Maglor is hit. You land o the bank of a river near the temples and
he lands in the forest. Go back and find him. He tells you that he
needs some mistletoe. There is some near him by a tree. Use the
gloves to get through the nettles and pick some.  When you take it
to Maglor, you find that he is dead. Take the spinning top from
him and go into the left hand temple.

Left Hand Temple.

Inside the door is a table with some scratches on it. Use the top
on the table and a door opens in a cylinder. Go inside the
cylinder and it will turn. When it stops, go back inside again and
then you should find yourself standing near a set of switches on
the floor. Press the centre one and go back inside the cylinder.
When it stops you should see a column with a flint on top of it.
Take the flint and go up the stairs. Take the scoop.  Go back
inside the cylinder and take two turns and you should see a
leather flask. You cannot take this so go up the stairs and get
the small shovel.

Go back inside the cylinder and take two turns again. Now you
should find a bowl of water on the column. Use the scoop to pick
some up and go up the stairs again. There is another flint here
but you don't need it, as you should already have one.  Go back
inside the cylinder and take two turns again. On the column this
time is a bowl of earth.  Use the small shovel to get some and
then go up the stairs to get the bellows. Go into the cylinder
again and this time take four trips to get back to the leather
flask. Use the bellows on it to get some air and then take the
cylinder again until you get back to the entrance. Leave the
temple and go to the right hand one.

Right Hand Temple.

In the centre of this Temple is an altar. It has a key on it but a
force field prevents you from taking it. Work your way around the
Temple in an anticlockwise direction. The first room that you come
to has a container in the centre filled with straw. On its right
side is a padlock. Examine it and you see that it has the symbol
of the Amulet on it. Use the amulet on the lock to open it. Lift
the lid and use your flint to set fire to the straw.  Take the
torch from the wall and light it in the straw. Now close the lid
and light the fire in the grate below the bowl of straw to start
it. Look out of the window and you see a pillar and hear a sound
that could be fire. Go to the next room and use the bellows on the
hole at the top of the globe. Light the fire underneath and then
look out of the window at the pillar. You hear a sound that could
be running water. Go past the locked door to the next room and
open the top of the globe. Pour in the water from the ladle and
light the fire beneath it.

Look out of the window at the pillar.  The sound you hear this
time is of wind blowing. It could be steam. In the last room, open
the globe and put the earth in it.  Light the fire and look from
the window again. You hear the sound of wind again. The force
field around the key will disappear and you can now go and get the
key. Use the key to unlock the door and go down the steps.  There
are slits in the wall at intervals as you descend. They contain
tiles that you must collect. There are usually two of them close
together and, at the bottom; you should have collected eight of
them. There are four rooms arranged in a circle here and in each
there is a pedestal and a pillar each with a place for a tile to
be laid. You have eight tiles with symbols on them. One has three
horizontal lines. This is the symbol for Earth. You have three
each with three upright "S"'s on it. This is the symbol for Air.
You have two pairs of tiles.  One pair has two wavy lines on. This
is the symbol for Water.  The last two have "S"'s above crosses.
This is the symbol for Fire. Work your way around the temple in an
anti clockwise direction and, in the first room put an Earth tile
in the pedestal and an Air tile on the pillar. The second room
should have a Fire tile in both places.  The third room should
have Air on the pedestal and Water on the pillar. The last room
should have the Water tile on the pedestal and an Air tile on the
pillar. The shield will drop if you get it right and you go and
take the staff from the altar. Serstan will enter and you
negotiate with him for both your and Melanie's safety if you give
him the staff. He agrees and sends you back to your own time.

Stonehenge.

You find yourself back at Stonehenge with Melanie. The ritual has
started and it seems that you cannot prevent it. Serstan said gave
you his word that neither you nor Melanie would be harmed. If that
were proved to be false, the ritual would not ahead. Take the
broken hedge cutters and stab Melanie with them. The ritual comes
to and end and you are presented with a scene of Sinclair cutting
his own throat. We have, however, done for Melanie. Or have we?
Take the mistletoe and use it on her. She is miraculously saved
and you can sit back and watch the end sequence as you have
completed the game.
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