The New Adventures of The Time Machine - Part 2
           by DreamCatcher The Adventure Company

                  Walkthrough by Tally Ho
                        October 2000
                    Revised Spring, 2002

Continued from last issue

Episode Three: Much work to do.

Notice that your strength is automatically replenished. Find the
stairs and go up, ride the Tripodon back to the city. Talk to the
Farmer, who will take care of the Tripodon for you. Speak with him
again until he offers to take you to the city gates. If you try to
go alone, you won't survive. You can speak to one of the guards on
the way in.

Head to Temple Square. Talk to the merchant woman. I think she is
the same merchant as before, made younger by the Time Wave. She
has lost her sandscraper (one of those little jumpy animals) and
implores you to find her some new sandscrapers.  If you catch
seven or more, she will reward you. Be sure you notice her unique
clothing before you make the deal with her, so you can recognize
her later. She is the one in the green scarf and yellow-bottom
skirt. Go behind her booth when she leaves, and pick up some sand
herbs.

There are eight sandscrapers in all. You need at least seven to
present to the merchant-woman. She will give you a tuning fork,
which provides you with a magic armor which remains active as long
as the icon of the tuning fork appears on the screen. It's not
absolutely necessary to have it, but it's worth the trouble. The
armor is good protection.

You can hear the sandscrapers' cries when you are close to them.
The one in the city gates area is easy; just pick it up.  While
you are right there, pick up the bucket. Another sandscraper is in
a small alcove, to the left after you enter Temple Square from the
gates.

Find the Priest and talk to him about the Memory Sanctuary and Vel
Subek. DO NOT go into the temple.

Go to Hourglass City. Find the gardener and talk to him. You will
learn about Hamiata and Ataimah, sisters who live together. Go the
far left end of the street and find a container of Merthweed
Leaves sitting there. Take some. The Sandscraper hopping around
Hourglass City is the hardest one to get. How to Stop him? Use a
spell. Don't chase it, stand still while it passes you, then when
it's nearly off the screen cast the spell.

Go into the new road, next to the original entrance. This is
Crossroad 1, an L-shaped street. On the way in, you will see a
diagram on the pavement for playing a game called Rainbow
Nautilus. The boy walking around Hourglass City will play this
game with you. Do it later, you have work to do. Proceed into the
street and see the sandscraper behind a little fence. Put some
merthweed down for it to feed. It steps forward, and you can pick
it up. Go a little further, and a boy walks out of a doorway. He
is too busy to talk. Go into the doorway and talk to the crying
girl. The boy took her doll and lost it. It's up to you to get it
back. Explore the area around the corner of the Crossroad. You
will find several wooden crates, and a special plant called a
honey-cactus around the corner. Cut a piece of the cactus with
your knife. (If you didn't trade for the knife in Episode one, you
need to go to Hamiata's house now. She lives in an alley in the
U-shaped street where you originally talked to the boy in the
first scene. Go there, talk with her, and take her knife.)

How to Use Crates:

You will have several scenes in the game where you need to use the
wooden crates to accomplish your purpose. To move a crate, walk up
close to it and hold the spacebar. This makes you grab onto the
crate. Then you can push it forward with the up arrow, or pull it
back with the down arrow, holding the space bar down during the
process. Most of the time, after moving a crate you will want to
climb on it. To climb, walk up close to it and tap the spacebar
once quickly.

You need to rearrange the crates in order to climb over the wall.
Climb up on the big dark crate furthest to the left. Pull the
large, light-colored crate towards you. Climb over it and jump
down on the other side of this crate. Push it completely to the
left. The reason for moving the top crate is so you can get the
middle one out of the bottom row. Get down and pull out the
light-colored crate in the middle. You can ignore all the other
crates now.  Push this crate tight against the right-hand wall and
climb upon it. Then climb over the wall. You will find a Tripodon
pen. The doll is in there, on the ground. The Tripodon won't let
you take it because he is hungry. Put some cactus heart in his
trough and he is content. Take the doll, and return it to the
little girl who lives in the same alley where the crates are. Talk
to her, give her the doll, and she gives you an Effahid Flute in
return. YOU MUST GET THE FLUTE. It is possible to get out of
Episode three without it, but you can't survive Episode Six if you
don't have it. Pick up the Sand Herbs on the window sill. Pick up
the uncharged hourglass on the other window sill.

While you are in Hourglass Square, you can visit a sculptor who is
working near the city-center. If you examine her work, there are
errors in the spelling. Pick up the chisel and correct the work.
She rewards you with a salt gem. As you walk aound Hourglass
square, a boy entreats you to play a game of Rainbow Nautilus. He
will take either the chisel or your compass as a bet. If you win
the game, you get Sand herbs. When you begin the game, he offers
to explain the rules to you. Be sure you are not holding an object
in your hand if you want to get the rules. Otherwise, he accepts
the trade and play starts automatically. It is not required to
play this game, but it's not difficult, and gets you some herbs to
help replenish your health later. (You can do this at any time, as
long as you have something worth trading.)

Note from a player: If you score 14 or more in Rainbow Nautilus,
the boy says something like, "Wow that score is too good for sand
herbs," and instead gives you a charged hourglass! Three
3-pointers and one 5-pointer will do it. To aim, look at the
ground below the ball going back and forth.  There will be two
dark specks right next to each other.  If you are going for a 3-
point shot, letting go just to the right of "between" them will
work with the power indicator just touching the orange.  For the
5- pointer you must release exactly as the ball goes over the
right hand 'speck' with the indicator at around the 6th or 7th
"rivet" on the side of the indicator thing. Once you have played
once, you can practice this if you want or need the hourglass, but
I have not figured a way to get to play anyone on the other
rainbow nautilus gameboard. (Thanks, Josh)

Go to Crossroad 2, the T-shaped street on the far left of
Hourglass Square. On your way over there, stop at the Merthweed
container and get some more. Go into the Crossroad and notice
another Rainbow Nautilus game on the steeet. Go to the T
intersection and turn right. If there is a man in the dead-end
alley, he tells you need to find the Hierarch's seal. (He may not
be there). There is another honey-cactus to the left of the door.
Take some. There is a sandscraper atop the crate. Use another
crate to get up there.

While you are in Crossroad 2, go into the other end and find the
old woman at the pump. She is Ataimah. Talk to her about her bad
back. The pump isn't working correctly and she has to carry heavy
buckets. You need to repair the pump. Pull the lever down to start
the pump. It's leaking. Go around the left side of the machine and
turn the wheel (space-left arrow). You don't need to hold the
control down, Wales knows how far to turn it.  Then go around
front again. Find the adjustable spanner (called a pipe wrench in
the US) and use it on the leaking pipe. Go turn the wheel to the
left again. Back around front, grab the left-hand crate and pull
it out. Now you can get to the new leaking pipe and fix it. Talk
to the woman again. Her back isn't any better, but the plumbing
works now, and she is grateful enough to give you one of the two
keys you need to unlock the box in Hamiata's house.

To get the other key: you need to dry the fresh merthweed leaves
and make tea for Hamiata. The place to dry them is in Prison
Square. Find it by going back to the original entrance.  There are
guards here, and you should stay close to the walls.  Go around to
the right until you find a large metal plate with nuts drying on
it. Place the leaves on the tray and wait. You can hear them
sizzling. The merthweed is dried when the noise stops, and you see
it turn brown. Pick it back up. A sandscraper is walking in the
prison yard, easy to pick up. If you decide to talk to the guards,
one will tell you to get lost; the other is in a really bad mood
because he was deharmonized by some kid. (That was you in Episode
One.)

Let's free that prisoner. Talk with the prisoner if you like. It
turns out he was arrested for stealing a Tripodon. So he is being
tortured for something you did. It's only fair to try to help him.
Go stand underneath the stairs between the guards and the
prisoner. You will hear them talking. Get the Warp (invisibility)
spell ready and Save Your Game. Go up to the prisoner's platform.
Straight ahead is a console with two levers. The left- hand lever
activates the electric shock to torture the prisoner.  The
right-hand lever (straight ahead) turns off the power to the
shocker. Turn off the power, do not shock the prisoner. He will
scream and draw attention to you. Go to the right side of the
platform, and find three levers. Pull the first one down once, and
pull the other two down twice. Then turn the wheel to the left
(space; left arrow). Hurry. When the guard says he will "freshen
up" he will come to the fountain for a drink, see you, and . . .
Zap! You can avoid getting zapped if you must make yourself
invisible two or three times. Another option is wait to free the
prisoner until you have traded seven sandscrapers for the Tuning
Fork. To use the Fork, put it in your hand and press the spacebar.
You will hear a tone and see the icon appear at the bottom of the
window. It lasts for one minute, and protects you from attack.
After you ring the Fork, you can put it away, so you can handle
levers, etc. Probably the best of both worlds is to use Warp once,
then the Fork to escape.

Here's another method: You have enough time to push one or two
levers; when you hear the guard say "freshen up" there's enough
time to jump off the platform. If the guard sees you in the prison
yard, not standing on the platform, you won't get attacked. Just
go back and forth pulling the levers one at a time, until the
prisoner is free.*

One player reports being able to talk to the prisoner after he is
free, by standing near the sack just before entering the square
where Hamiata's house is.*

Now you can go to Hamiata and make her some cactus- merthweed tea.
Find the teapot, put in the leaves and the honey-cactus. If you
leave out the cactus, she doesn't like it. It's too bitter. If you
leave out the merthweed and only put in the cactus, she finds it
too sweet. (If you gave her a taste of either bitter or sweet tea,
just fix it by adding the missing ingredient to the teapot. It's
not necessary to go back and get more merthweed or cactus.) When
you get it just right, she gives you the second key. Open the
chest and take the Hierarch's Seal.

Here's where seven of the sandscrapers are:

City gates area
Small alcove near exit to city gates
Sitting on crate in Crossroad 2
Behind fence in Crossroad 1 (give merthweed)
Hiding behind the barrels outside Hamiata's house
Hourglass Square (stop-time spell)
Prison yard

The eighth animal is in the Sanctuary of Memory square, just
trotting around. If you need this one, because you couldn't
capture the one that runs away, be sure to exit the square and
trade it to the merchant before you go see Vel Subek inside his
sanctuary.

The Merchant who wants the sandscrapers will not be at the market
when you go back; she is walking around Temple Square and is hard
to find. A good way to stop her is to run past her and wait until
she walks near you and hit the spacebar. Test the Tuning Fork when
you get it, so you know how to use it when you are under pressure.

Optional: Remember the kid near Hamiata's house that traded with
you in Episode One? He is there again, and is the same boy who
lost the little girl's doll. He will exchange some Vissahid
ointment for the bucket. If you give Ataimah the ointment, she
will think you are a hero; but gives you nothing in trade, except
perhaps some good advice about oiling some wheels.

It is essential that you have the Effahid Flute and the Eye of Jad
Garr僕 spell in your possession before finishing Episode Three.
You cannot complete Episode Six without both items. Do not proceed
further without them.

Go to the second crossroad (past the water pump you repaired) and
ring the bell by the red door. You may have to ring it three or
four times, because the guard inside is hard of hearing.The guard
wants to see your seal. Show him and go into the Sanctuary of
Memory square. Learn the layout now, you will be in a hurry to get
out later. Go through the grey doors into the sanctuary. Touch the
doors to open them, and step in promptly.  If you wait until the
doors close. You can't open them a second time. Be sure you have
done everything else you want to in Episode Three before you go
into the sanctuary; this episode ends automatically when you exit
the Sanctuary.

Look around. There is a table with a sand globe and black salt gem
for you to take. If you have an uncharged hourglass, you can
charge it at the clock. Talk to Vel Subek. He won't speak to you
until you show him your Nautilus. Read the scrolls on the library
wall. There is an important clue about the Lemurs weakness in one
scroll. The higher ones can be accessed by using the steps. The
wheels squeak, and need to be oiled. (The readable scrolls are the
gray ones, harder to see than the parchments.) Read the scroll
near the entrance carefully, it contains an important clue for a
later episode.

Be sure to talk again to Vel Subek until he wishes you well and
has no more to say. Show him your inventory items to gain some
information.*Enter the Sphere to learn two new spells (Voyage of
the Arch and Veil of the Nautilus). The Veil of the Nautilus is in
the far rear. Pick it up first, and go back to the Lemur to
practice. He shows you how it protects against the loss of Jad
Garr僕, whether from attacks, or through the singing of certain
creatures. Remember his advice.

Since the Lemur wants to keep the Voyage of the Arch spell, he
hides the real prism among three fake ones. It's an illusion. If
you touch one of these fake prisms, you will lose some health.
So, cast an Eye of Jad Garr僕 spell or use your Nautilus and you
will see the fake prisms disappear.

Exit the sphere and leave the Sanctuary, an automatic scene
unfolds, where you are arrested.

Episode Four: Get out of Jail

You are in prison with Ashamira. Speak to her until a Time Wave
occurs and you are both changed into children.  The guard has
stepped away for a moment and dropped his key by the door. You
have very little time. Pick up the key, unlock the door and exit
to your right. Go into the cell two doors down by unlocking it.
Watch the guard return and go into your former cell to search. To
exit your new cell you must put the key away (<zero>) or you will
lock yourself in. Exit to the left, walk promptly to your old
cell, get out the key and lock the guard inside. This scene is
easier if you assign a hotkey to the key. An alternative to
locking the guard in your cell, is to take his key and wait until
he comes back to stand guard. You can use the deharmonizer spell
or the Wrist Jadgar and shoot him in the back.

Still another alternative is to exit the cell, and use the
invisibility spell when the guard comes back. if you stay
invisible, the other guards will come to this place, and the
guardroom will be empty.  Stay invisible and go to the guard room.
Upon entering, turn right and pull the lever to close the gate
immediately. *

OR -- go back past your hiding place, and through the door by the
bell, into the next cellblock. Go up to the first cell you come to
and unlock it. The child imprisoned there turns out to be the man
you freed from the torture machine. His memory needs to be
restored. Give him a black salt crystal. He has a plan to help.
He will distract the guards for you. The boy rings the bell,
summoning the guards from their ready-room. You must wait until
the guards "Inspect the Cells." Then exit, go to the guardroom,
turn right and pull the lever to close the gate. Now you really
haven't much time. Suggest you save immediately, the following
scene is hard to survive until you have practiced it a few times.
Position yourself near Ashamira. If you stand behind Ashamira, her
shield will protect you.Get the "Stop Time" spell ready, and cast
it on the woman when she enters.  Immediately get the Deharmonizer
Spell ready, and walk toward the woman, zapping her. If you are
close enough, twice should do it. An alternative is to become
invisible and let Ashamira do the dirty work! Take stock of your
life resources. If you don't have about half of your Jad Garr僕
left, you can't make it through the next part. In that case, go
back to your saved game and get through this scene more
efficiently. There are four doors in the guardroom. Exit the door
to the far right (not the one the woman came through, that exit
leads to hourglass square, and certain death).

Get the "invisible" spell ready, and use it as soon as Ashamira
exits. Run to the crates. Push the crate to the left just far
enough to clear the other crates, then push it through the door.
Near the end of the pushing process, you will be shielded by the
other crates or by the wall, and the guards stop shooting at you.
Once you clear the door you are safe, for a while. You and
Ashamira need to find a way out of this enclosure without going
back into the yard where the guards are.

Push the crate against the other nearby crates and climb all the
way up to the roof. Ashamira will follow you. Go jump on the lift
platform. (That is, walk up to it and tap space.) She will
automatically hoist you up. Go across the roof and jump across the
gap to the other roof, and touch the plank. The plank is now a
bridge. Go back to the two crates and cut the rope. Bring the
crate (you can only move one of them) across the bridge and push
it up against the abutment at the far right-hand end, so you can
climb onto the next roof. Touch the new plank (on the far side of
it) and it makes a bridge that is too short. Push the big crate
onto the end of the plank to hold it down. Climb over the crate to
the plank, jump to the gatehouse, and turn the wheel.  Ashamira
rides up. Get on the lift; she lowers you. Now go get the original
crate you brought with you (it's a long walk) and put it on the
lift. She brings you and the crate up. Take the crate off the lift
and turn the wheel again, to lower the lift and bring up the
weight.  Put the crate on the counterweight. Now there is enough
weight to cause the appartus to descend, and you all escape. Go
find the Tripodon. He won't have anything to do with you because
he is thirsty. Fill your bucket with water and pour the water in
the trough. Willoughby is happy now, and will take you to the
Rebel Camp.

Episode Five: In the Rebel Camp

Talk to everyone. (Do Not Head Away From The Camp Into the Desert.
As in Episode One, the Lemurs are out there and will put you to an
unmerciful end.) The Tripodon-keeper will tell you things, and
give you a nip of Ash-Fire when you show him some cactus.
Dahjaroun, the man working at a table is suspicious of you, but he
feels better after you recharge his wrist Jadgar. Talk to him
more, and he gives you a Sounding-Stick. Go into the big tent, and
no wonder Ashamira said she could help you find the arch; it's in
her tent! Turns out she's in charge of things around here. Talk to
her, pick up the salt gems, fire up the arch, and step through.
Cast the Voyage of the Arch spell on the arch. If you don't want
to spend the Jad Garr僕 on a spell, the Nautilus will also turn on
the Arch. Stand in the Circular area to activate the Arch with the
Nautilus.

Episode Six: Watch your step!

No, Toto, this doesn't quite look like Kansas; more like the
Deadly Desert. You need to cross this expanse. Use the Sounding
Stick, and don't ever step past the area cleared by the stick.
Listen to your footsteps. When they sound mushy, don't go any
further. Test the ground with the stick. When you come to a canyon
with a gravel floor, you can put away the stick.  Go to the rock
wall with a hole in it, and observe the Lemur on the other side.
You will need to crawl through the hole (Put away all inventory
and press <space>) and deal with the Lemur. Play your flute to
calm him down.Suggestion: The following scenes are difficult
indeed. The first Lemur will be charmed by the flute, but the
second one, which you encounter while trying to climb the ledge,
will attack you mercilessly, and you must kill him before he does
you in.  If you have not been using the hotkey feature yet, this
is the time for it. Put the flute on a hotkey, so you can get to
it immediately. Put the wrist Jadgar on a hotkey as well.
Remember: to play the flute, hit the hotkey, then the space. To
fire the Wrist Jadgar, hit its hotkey, then the Ctrl. key.  You
can also put spells on a hotkey, perhaps one to shield yourself,
and one to slow down the lemur. The invisible spell doesn't fool
them, nor does the Stop Time Spell have any effect.  You've heard
of Shake 'n Bake, or Surf 'n Turf, right? Well, this is Flute 'n
Shoot! If you are quick and careful, you can get rid of this one
without losing any powers. The technique is to still him with the
flute, fire the Jadgar, then immediately flute again.After you
dispatch the nasty Lemur, you can climb over the next set of
ledges. Down to earth again, and look carefully! There is an
object right there in the path, but hard to see. The Shell of Time
is good for restoring your Jad Garr僕. Before you enter the
Lemurs' Lair, save your game. Choice: You can flute the first
three Lemurs, but don't dawdle. They will not only shoot at you,
they will cast a spell that drains you away. Watch out for a red
glow that looks like a funnel over your head. If that happens,
escape to a saved game. It drains your sand until you are dead.
If you are really agile, and not too close to the Lemur throwing a
spell at you, you might be able do dodge (<alt>) left or right and
not get hit. You can also run (<shift>). You can use the
counterspell that cancels out spells put on you, but only if you
survive long enough to use it.  I decided to kill the first two.
That way you don't have to deal with them on the way back out.You
will come to a chasm which is really an illusion. In previous
spheres, there was a bridge there. Fix the illusion with the Eye
of Jad Garr僕 spell, and you can cross the bridge. Don't take too
long, the Lemur over your shoulder doesn't stay charmed forever.
Past the chamber on the other side of the bridge, there will be a
cluster of crystals on the right side. Across from the crystals,
there is an alcove on the left which is difficult to see.  Turn in
there, and pick up the Chronophore from the floor.

** See image in Screenshots - alcove: The little alcove is just
ahead, on your left, across from those crystals. When you get
close enough to actually enter it, your view will have shifted, so
that it's now to the right of the screen, (still to "your" left.).
Look at the floor to see where the rocks depict an entrance.

Go further and charm the last Lemur, the Old Woman of the Caverns.
Charm her again, go behind and steal the charged hourglass. (Put
the flute away in order to pick something else up.) Don't bother
to offer the hourglass in trade - she is not interested. Put the
Hourglass away, get the flute back out, charm her again, then put
the flute away and talk. Note: be sure to continue the
conversation (space) before she finishes the first long speech. It
helps to have the captions turned on. It seems if you allow her to
finish her speech, you will be unable to restart the conversation.
Keep talking to her until she gives you the Spectral Body Spell.
Then she won't attack you when you leave.  After you leave her,
don't return or she will have a change of heart and throw a deadly
spell at you.  If you left any Lemurs alive on the way in, the
best technique is to use the spectral body spell and run past them
so quickly they don't have time to do you harm.  Whew!Go down the
canyon, ignoring the Lemurs on the way. Hop from rock to rock,
playing the flute in between each hop. Go to the far right to pick
up the Crystal Flask. Be very careful to face the right way when
jumping off this rock and the next one. It is possible to fall
into the chasm. You probably should shoot the Lemur who attacks
you. You can do this before getting the flask, just don't leave it
behind. You can get past him by playing the flute between each
jump, but you need to be precise for each jump. It's hard to make
headway because you must be standing on exactly the right spot
each time you want to hop. If you have "been there and done that"
enough times to memorize the route, you can make it out of there
solely on your charm. I preferred to zap the bugger. Don't bother
to restore your health now; a Wave is near, and you will be fully
healed.  Have the Veil of the Nautilus Spell ready before you go
near the ocean.Go to the end and climb down. Stay close to the
wall, work your way around to the right in between two pillars and
find another Shell of Time. Pick it up and watch the automatic
sequence. If you get too close to the water before finding the
Shell, you can't get back to it. (It's not a big problem if you
miss it.) Take the crystal flask to the spot on the beach and fill
it. Look for the spot at the farthest right you can go. If you
found the shell, go up-screen. It's near the waterline, and near
the cliff.  You must fill the flask. (If you miss it now, you get
a second chance in episode 10)

To be concluded next issue

















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