The Feeble Files -  Part 1
               3D Adventure by ADVENTURE SOFT

                A Solution by Lu Richardson
               (LuRichardson@compuserve.com)

General:

This is an extremely long adventure with rather complicated
puzzles and frequent and lengthy automatic sequences over which
you have no control.  There is also quite a lot of toing and
froing.  You are going to have to be very, very patient.

It is a good idea to play with the Hitbox names On, it simplifies
finding likely objects to manipulate.  Don't forget that, in order
to actually do so, the name of the object must be showing on the
screen.  Note also that you have to look at each location again
and again, every time you visit it, because new items become
available all the time.  If you cannot interact with something
named on the screen, it's because you don't yet have the
appropriate item - but at least it will give you an idea of what
to look for.  Examine/use each object you find or are given.

Familiarize yourself with the interface as soon as you are able
to, it takes a bit of getting used to.  Particularly the so-called
"Action" (use/talk) and "Double Action" (combine/use on) icons;
usage can be a bit confusing at first - specially since sometimes
you don't know whether to pick something up or use it.

Save often, particularly after solving a puzzle or getting out of
a dangerous situation.

From the start:

Ministry, CCD

After the intro, you are outside the CCD - and you need transport.
Enter, look around and use the HoloMail and listen to the
messages.  Open the cupboard and get the helmet.  Note the drawer.
Pick up the doll, go outside and attempt to use the bike - you
can't because you are not wearing the right gear.  Go back in and
combine the doll with the teleporter.  Pick up the leather jacket
and use it.  You can now go outside and use the bike - you put on
the helmet automatically.  Head for...

The Space Bar

Note the guy in the telephone booth.  Enter the bar and talk to
everyone as you come in.  Delores gives you a package to take to
Metro Prime, a guy will give you a leaflet, the pilot will tell
you he's carrying some CDs.  As you leave, there will be a scene
to watch.  Use the bike to go to...

Metro Prime

Talk to the two guys arguing and find out what the problem is.  Go
out through the archway to the right of the screen.  In the city,
walk left (note the telephone booth and the girl inside) till you
come to a teleport.  Use it.  Go left through the alley till you
come to a door.  Use the door and Feeble hands the package and
gets some money.  Leave the alley and visit the Pill Shop.  Look
around and note the empty canister by the door.  The shopkeeper
explains what he is waiting for.  What a coincidence.  Leave and
go right and up to the Ministry Headquarters.  Go inside and talk
to the secretary, but she won't let you in.  Go out and enter the
Observation Dome next door.  Use the credits on the vending
machine three times and Feeble will get angry and kick it, after
which he'll feel the need to confess.  Leave and go to OmniBrain.
Use the Confessional.  How about using the leaflet on the machine
to the left?  Too small.  Well, we know where it can be made
larger - use the bike to get to the CCD and combine the leaflet
with teleporter.  Bring it back to the machine.  OK, the CDs are
now illegal.

Take the bike to the Space Bar and go in.  Talk to the Enforcer at
the bar and ask if anything new has been banned, then tell him you
have information - this means that the Enforcer shoots the poor
pilot and you get his permit.  That's not nice, Feeble.

Take the permit to the pilot who could not unload.  Now the pills
can be delivered, so go to the Pill Shop and buy a bottle.  You
are also given another one of dodgy pills.  Go to the HQ secretary
and use the good pills.  You are so charming that the secretary
lets you through - however, the guy in front of the lift won't let
you pass because you aren't wearing the right gear.  You've got to
find a place to change, but it will have to be somewhere here,
because if you change elsewhere you won't be able to use the bike
to come back.

To save you the trouble I will tell you that the only place is the
telephone booth, in which a girl is talking.  Remember the guy in
the telephone booth at the Spacebar?  Go there and talk to him.
He asks for a drink.  Go to the bar, talk to the bartender and ask
for the drink - charge it to the guy in the booth.  Now combine
the dodgy pills with the drink and give it to the guy in the
booth.  Wait till he comes out, use the bike and get to the other
booth.  The girl is outside, crying, and gets killed for her
pains.  Nice going, Feeble.  You've just had two innocent people
eliminated.

Combine the coat with the booth to change.  Now you can go back to
HQ and use the lift to speak to the Minister.  Watch.  You end up
in...

Prison

You will find yourself being hypnotized every few minutes and
transported somewhere else, and there is little you can do about
it.  Use your brief stays to look around - the important thing is
the recreation room, where you must pick up the poster - actually,
the tacks which hold it to the wall.  Eventually, you will wind up
in your cell.  You have to act very quickly.  Open the sanitation
unit, combine the tacks with the bed - when you next get
hypnotized you wake up because of the tacks, pick them up and lay
on the bed.  As soon as the warden comes in to attend to the
sanitation unit, i. e., as soon as he has gone past you, get up
and leave, heading to the right of the screen.  Go downstairs and
enter the first door.

Pick up a bowl and combine it with the Dispenser, to get some
gunge.  Before you come out, save your game.  Step out.  The idea
is to use the gunge on the two cameras you will see in the floors
below, but without getting caught.  It might be worth your while
to have a trial run.  For instance, if the warden is in front of
the first camera, wait till he is gone and then go down.  You must
not be on the same floor with him at any one time.

Once you've dealt with both cameras, walk left and go inside the
lift, which leads to the factory.  As soon as you step inside,
locate the camera (centre right of the screen) and use the gunge
on it.  Walk to the right and examine the grate.  You have a
conversation with someone you cannot see.  Keep talking till that
person tells you the number of the rebel channel (667).

Save before you leave.  Find your way (carefully) to the
recreation room, use the TV till you get the rebel channel, pick
up the big red knob and use the cupboard to hide - and be quick
about it.  The warden will come in, try to turn off the TV and
blow a fuse because he can't.  OK, now you can leave the cupboard
and walk around confidently.

Go back to the factory, go to the right and use the lever to start
the conveyor belt.  Step on to it to go through the grate, where
you'll meet Delores.  There is a conversation after which you need
to get gold of her reworked doll.  You also need about five of the
ordinary dolls, so pick them up.  Leave.

Outside the lift, go up the stairs and pile the five ordinary
dolls in front of the round grate by the door, then use the
reworked doll on them.  OK, go through the grate.  You will find
yourself in front of a puzzle you have to negotiate to get out.

The tile puzzle

First of all, observe that there are five different colours and
that each belongs to a different type of symbol.  Because they
will soon start to change, familiarize yourself with the shape
each colour has.  The idea here is to follow a sequence, namely
white (W), red (R), yellow (Y) and green (G), time and again,
until you reach the other side.  Unfortunately, 1) the colours
start to change and you can only step on the tiles when they are
the same colour they were originally, 2) you only see half the
floor, so you cannot plan the best route to follow.

I will attempt to guide you through so that you don't spend the
next twenty years trying to get across.  All the directions
(f=FORWARD, s = SIDEWARDS, b = BACKWARDS) refer to Feeble's
viewpoint, as facing forwards.

So, step on the white tile and, waiting for the tiles to be the
right colour, click on the following:  fR, fY, sG, bW, sR, fY, sG,
fW, sR, fY, fG, sW (the single tile), sR, fY, sG, fW, sR, sY, bG,
fW, sR, fY, fG, sW, sR, sY, fG and off.  I hope I got that right!
If not, you will at least get an idea how to solve the puzzle.

The Ignition Circuit puzzle

At any rate, when you are through go outside.  You automatically
enter the vehicle.  Look around and use the cover to the right and
get the wires.  Open the ignition circuit and look at it.  Use the
wires on the input keys to the left.  Now, the idea is to draw the
wires across by combining the input keys with the output keys.  If
you get the colours right, you get a high pitch sound and if you
get them wrong, it's a low pitch.  For instance, I combined Input
1 with Output 4, Input 2 with Output 2, Input 3 with Output 1 and
Input 4 with Output 3.  This happened to be right, so I
automatically took off and watched the sequence.  But suppose the
second and third combinations had been wrong, I would have heard:
BLEEP-bleep-bleep-BLEEP.  Then its just a matter on clicking on
the left and starting again till you get it right.  When you do,
just watch, and you will wind up at...

The Forest Planet

Watch.  At the end, follow Sam to the village, walking to the
right, across the bridge, right, up and to the gates.  Watch.
Pick up the spear and follow the native back towards the ship
to...

The Maze puzzle

This requires a great deal of patience.  Get Sam and Feeble over
the bridge and well away from it.  Get Sam to blow up the log.
Somehow, either wait for or entice the native to this side of the
bridge, or to the other, whichever you think is best to corner
him, and the idea is to converge on him from both sides so that he
is between Sam and Feeble and cannot escape.  As I said, this
takes some doing, but I'm sure you'll manage it before Christmas.
Once the native is caught, watch.

OK, at the end, step out and you get captured.  Watch some more.
You wake up all tied up.  Watch the next sequence.  When it is
over, pick up your rope to escape.  Have a good look all around.
Use...

The Chemistry set puzzle

If you click on the white inset, you will see a set of
instructions to get the Passive Control Potion.  However, if you
follow them to the letter, it won't work.  Bear in mind that the
flasks in front should be taken to be A to E, left to right.  It
doesn't matter how you place them or in which order, you just have
to get the right combination of chemicals and the right condition
(cold or hot).  If you get a brown solution, you might as well
start again - only next time try the same combination but a
different condition.  This is how it worked for me:
ABC + heat = F
DEA + heat = B
ABD + heat = G
ABE + heat = I
BCE + cold = H
ACD + heat = J
At this point, I used the resulting solutions, thus:  FBG + cold.
This did the trick.

Once you have the right solution, use it on the water cover to put
it in the native's drinking water.  Use the remote control to call
the robot to the Lab.  Go to the buttons, examine them and use the
one to open the statue door.  Change to SAM and go to the village,
then enter the statue.  Change to Feeble and press the other
button to teleport SAM in.

Next, use the Directory on the table and then the telephone.  Ask
to cancel the unlisted number status.  When the phone rings,
Filbert will come in and be captured by SAM.  Watch and, at the
end of all that, pick up the God suit and combine it with the
Projection Machine.  Watch.

Change to SAM and go out and up the mountain (follow the path to
the top left of the screen) till you reach the Mountain Top.
There, shoot the bird.  Go back to the Lab.  Change to Feeble and
go find the bird (near the broken bridge) and combine the bird
with the rock, then walk away.  Watch - the natives will rebuild
the bridge to get to the bird.  Cross the bridge to get to the
ship.

Inside, Delores (alias "The Squid") will tell you what to get.
Walk out, look around and use the spear on the Cover.  Get the
battery.  Go back to the Lab.  Inside, use the Directory then use
the phone to get a laser relay.  Change to SAM, go to the village
and to the Big Statue.  Look at the statue and pick up the gem
(use the weight icon).  Go back to the Lab.

In there, change to Feeble and go to the Mountain Top.  Use each
of the items on Delores and watch.  You find yourself at...

We'll find out next issue












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