Martian Memorandum - Part 2

                Walkthrough by Dave Timoney

Concluded from Issue 88

Power Plant

I enter the plant, and LOOKing at the left door, I see the name
Ferris Collett, the name from Marshall's safe. Examining the
machine by the right door, I observe that it would take a door key
card to get past the right door. So, I MOVE the red button just to
the left of the left door and GO TO the open doorway. Ferris's
back is turned, so I look around. I LOOK at the white lab coat to
my right and spot a door key card, which I GET. Then I TALK to
Ferris about Percival, Alexis, Deacon, Castro, and the Stanton
Expedition. Interesting stuff, but nothing immediately useful, so
I make a quick exit by MOVEing the door switch and GO TO open
door.

Once back in the main room, I go over to the security machine on
the right and USE door card key on machine, then I GO TO the now
open security door. Looking around, everything looks ok. I find a
door on the right, but no way to open it. Some worker has left a
wrench on the ground by the door, which I GET. I'm careful to walk
behind the trap door, so I don't fall in. Looking up, I see a
walkway on the top of the machine with a dark doorway. No obvious
way up, but if I stand directly under the magnet and USE monkey
wrench on the huge magnet just as it comes overhead, I get
levitated and dropped at the walkway. Walking right into the
doorway, I find a small storage room. I LOOK at the crate in the
room, finding a pair of hex wrenches and a hoverboard.  OPENing
the door and GOing TO door gets me back to the lower level. I GO
TO open doorway and decide to blow this place. I'm a little sore,
but don't know if it's this nutty case or just me. Either way, I
TRAVEL to the Aerobics Academy for a chat with Jane Mansfield.

Aerobics Academy #1

An attendant points to the short-haired girl in the corner when I
ask for Jane Mansfield. We TALK. Everything seems ok, until I
start to ask about Alexis and the late Rick Logan. Her eyes shift
faster than a 4-speed car on a freeway on-ramp. She's lying, but
without proof she'd never change her story. She goes back to her
jogging; I LOOK at the counter by the window, OPEN her green
handbag with her address inside, and TRAVEL to Jane's place.

Jane's Place

I decide to search the place, looking for clues. OPENing the
closet to the right of the TV screen, I find luggage with Alexis's
name on it. More importantly I MOVE the pillows on the left couch
and then LOOK at the revealed letter to learn that Alexis has a
brother named Brad. That's the proof I need to make Jane talk, so
I GET the letter. While I'm thinking about my next step, I MOVE
the gray control panel on the coffee table. The blonde on the
screen is worth a LOOK; it gets me Deacon Hawke's address. She's
definitely put on my future agenda, but for now I TRAVEL back to
the academy.

Aerobics Academy #2

I TALK to Jane, OFFERing her the letter. This time she comes
clean. When I ask about Marshall, she admits Alexis has the stone
and is still on Mars. Asking about Alexis and then Bradley Ericson
gets me his address. I thank her for her help and TRAVEL to
Bradley Ericson's.

Bradley Ericson #1

Bradley's a bitter young man; I suspect he's got good reason to
be. But despite his animosity towards his father when I TALK to
him, he obviously cares for his sister. When I ask him about Big
Dick Castro, he gives me a pair of infrared glasses. Bradley knows
Alexis is hiding, but doesn't know where.

I've reached a dead end. I decide to backtrack a bit and TRAVEL to
see Lawrence Barkley.

Dr. Lawrence Barkley

The receptionist lets me in Barkley's office. It's a long wait,
and I get bored easily, so I start to look around. I LOOK at the
red box on the shelf and decide to GET it. The doctor finally
shows up and we TALK. Seems Barkley knows for a fact that Marshall
Alexander is Collier Stanton, but the vouchers in Marshall's safe
were not for blackmail, just an unusual business arrangement. Not
much help there, so I decide to TRAVEL to my last solid lead,
Lowell Percival. But just as I start out, I get a call from Mac
Malden back on Earth with the name of Marshall's assassin: Nathan
Bloodworth.  Nathan doesn't seem related to finding Alexis, so I
still TRAVEL to Percival.

Lowell Percival #1

Percival's a hard case; I won't get anywhere with him unless I do
the "favor" he wants. I TRAVEL back to Dick Castro's casino.

Casino #2

(Note that you can also enter the office from the ventilation
shaft, by using the hex wrenches on the duct grill in the
bathroom; see pages 9 and 13 of the game manual for information on
traveling in the ducts.) I go inside the casino and walk right,
through the casino, until I come to a door labeled "Office." No
one is watching so I quickly OPEN the door and GO TO the open
doorway. Then I find out why no one watches the outside. I would
have preferred to meet Castro under my conditions. I realize a
tight spot when I see one, so I use Response 1 1 2. (This really
_is_ a timed event; you must do the next sequence quickly; save
and restore to keep the time down.) I LOOK at the desk and GET the
card on its left side. On a hunch I MOVE the light above Castro's
painting which reveals a passageway.

I GO TO passageway. I'd never figure out the alarm combination, so
I concentrate on the odd-looking floor that starts just before the
lasers. Since I have the infrared glasses, I can see the lasers.
The floor is pressure-sensitive; I walk up to the edge of the odd
floor and USE the hoverboard. The route is tricky and tight. I go
between first 2 beams, in front of the 3rd, behind the 4th, then
in front of the 5th and 6th. That gets me past the first bank of
lasers, but it's never that easy: there's a second bank of lasers.
I go behind the first 3, in front of the 4th and 5th, behind the
6th (close to and in front of number 7), in front of number 8 and
I was through! I hop off the board once I get to a normal floor;
the safe lock is the machine to my right. I USE the safe card key
from Castro's desk, and USE the facial kit I got from the doctor's
office (using Castro's picture on the trading card) for the
computer scan. The computer lock validates me as Castro, and the
safe opens.

Walking right to the safe, I LOOK on each of the 3 shelves and
TAKE the memorandum to Collier Stanton.  Looking at the memorandum
gives me the name Thomas Dangerfield.  What the heck, I TAKE the
$125,000 too, and am sure to TAKE the marker for Percival. Time's
getting short, so I reverse the procedure back through the laser
beams, and quickly get back to Castro's office. I OPEN the duct
cover on the right side of the office and GO TO the duct. Having
the blueprints not only gives me the duct view, but also an
overhead view of where I am (see pages 9 and 13 for navigating in
the ducts). I GO TO the bathroom exit, then OPEN the Casino door,
and GO TO the exit. Once outside, I TRAVEL back to Percival's.

Lowell Percival #2

He's still not exactly someone you'd wanna split a beer with, but
he's willing to TALK now. Asking about Castro, I learn about Rocky
Bulwinkle. When I ask about Rocky, Percival suggests tailing him.
I TRAVEL back to the casino.

Casino #3

It's a long wait; sometimes I even play around with the casino
door waiting for Rocky to leave the casino. He finally does, and
heads into the alley. I GO TO the alley myself, and quickly duck
into the doorway on the left side. Good thing, too, because before
he activates a secret door he checks the alley for a tail. His
eyes are only for the door once he heads left; I move quickly even
before he's inside so I can GO TO it before the door closes. I
spot Larry Hammond inside and we talk. He helps me out by giving
me an amulet to get in good with Deacon Hawke; he also gives me
Nathan Bloodworth's address. I figure I've put off Nathan long
enough, so I TRAVEL to go talk to Michelle Bloodworth.

Michelle Bloodworth

They say love's blind, but after seeing Michelle I suspect it's
Nathan that's blind. I ask her about Nathan and she gives me the
address to a Remote Outpost. She tells me that someone goaded
Nathan into killing Alexander, and into conning Alexis into
getting the stone. There's a possible tie between Nathan and
Thomas Dangerfield, the name on the memorandum. I TRAVEL to the
Remote Outpost.

Remote Outpost

I get there, but I'm too late. Nathan's barely alive and fading
faster than I could get him to a doctor. I TALK to him and make
out something about a trap, but don't know what he means. I open
the door of the shack on the left and TAKE the rebreather on the
table -- a useful device for the thin air on Mars. I see some
tools next to the door, so I TAKE them, too. It's cold in here,
but the heat of the fire on the left side of the cave seems to
help. On the right side I spy a large chest; OPENing it I find an
access key card. I TAKE the card and all hell breaks loose.
_This_is the trap that Nathan was trying to warn me about, but
it's too late now.  A door on the right side of the shack opens
up, and desperately TAKE the jetpack. With no igniter, I need some
other form of heat to ignite the pack; I USE the jetpack on the
fire and take off. I'm at a dead end again. Larry Hammond had
mentioned that Deacon Hawke seemed to know everything that goes
on, so I TRAVEL to the temple.

Temple

I'd heard that the temple gate was always closed, but it's wide
open now. I get an itchy feeling something is wrong; I GO TO the
temple doorway and look in. I'm not about to tangle with a guy
packing a laser, but this bozo doesn't look too bright. I spot two
pink, full-height mirrors and start to smile.  I MOVE the mirror
on the right, then walk across the temple and MOVE the other. The
goon never notices me; once I had moved both mirrors, I MOVE the
wooden candle extinguisher leaning against the pillar to get the
goon's attention. Sure enough, he fires his laser and the light
beam bounces off the two mirrors to come back and hit him. Some
guys are born saps, some die that way, too.

I go up to Deacon and TALK to her. She sounds a little nutty, but
gives me a lead on Alexis: Cooper Bradbury, titular ruler of the
mutant population here on Mars. Her comments about the Oracle
stone leave me a little worried. I ask her about herself to try
and get a handle on her, but she just talks about my destiny and
gives me a location in the colonist ruins that she claims will aid
my search. I figure she's got a screw loose, but maybe I should
check out the ruins since I don't know where to find Cooper.  I
TRAVEL to the ruins.

Colonist Ruins

The mood of the place gets to me, so I give the place a quick
search. Just to my right I find a box of H2CL acid, which I TAKE.
I walk right and keep going until I find a real large piece of
metal. MOVEing it reveals an electronic tuning fork, which I also
TAKE. Standing around, looking at the ruins, I consider the case.
Something about Cooper Bradbury is bugging me, and it finally
breaks through: Bradley Ericson, being a fellow mutant in a
close-knit environment like Mars, can probably help me out with
finding Cooper. I TRAVEL to Bradley Ericson again.

Bradley Ericson #2

I ask Bradley about Cooper Bradbury and he gives me Cooper's
address, which I TRAVEL to.

Cooper Bradbury

Cooper Bradbury is willing to talk; he is aware of the Oracle
stone and wants it for himself. He seems to know nothing about
Alexis, and most of what he says is just so much rhetoric until I
ask him about Thomas Dangerfield, and get a new address. I TRAVEL
to the cave at the address.

Cave

Entering the passage, I stand at the left end of a long tunnel. I
head down the tunnel expecting booby traps, but I don't find any.
I guess Dangerfield expects the door to keep everyone out. But I
have the interlock key card from the Remote Outpost, which I USE
on the door and then I GO TO the open doorway.

The door closes and I look into the eyes of one frightened,
beautiful young lady. I TALK to Alexis and she ties up some loose
ends to this case. The biggest thing she mentions is Dangerfield's
machine, reminding me of what Deacon Hawke said about the Oracle
stone.

I start to leave, but notice there are no controls for the door on
this side. That doesn't make sense; this doubtlessly was not a
Martian cell, so there should be controls for the door. I notice a
patch of plaster on the wall to the right of the door. I look
around, my eyes falling on some of Alexis's clothes hanging from a
steel rod. My mind wanders, looking at them and Alexis, but only
for a split second, then I GET the rod and USE it on the plaster
once I'm right in front of it.  The metal plate surprises me, but
I USE the H2CL acid I found in the Colonist Ruins to eat the plate
away. A button is exposed and I MOVE it...only to find the trap
I'd been waiting for.

Endgame

As Dangerfield walks into his cubicle, I look around. I see a
control panel on the outside of his cubicle, next to the ground.
Looking up, I see a large bolt in the ceiling of our cage.  I GET
the bolt. I TALK to Alexis, using Response 1 1.  This slows
Dangerfield down a bit, giving me time to think.

They say your life flashes before your eyes when you're gonna die;
good thing, too, because it reminds me of my childhood and gives
me an idea. Looking at Alexis gives me other ideas, but only one
that is going to get us out of here. I TALK to her and use
Response 1 2 1. I GET the bra from her hand, then USE the bra on
the control panel to smash it.

Quickly, I walk over to the right of the glass case with the stone
in it situated on the right side of the room, and USE the tuning
fork on the glass (you have to be fairly accurate about where you
click to click on the glass). The glass shatters, as do
Dangerfield's dreams, and the stone falls. I GET the stone, and
with Alexis following, GO TO the speedster car sitting on the
right side. We take off before Dangerfield can get out of his
booth for a shot at us, and we head back to the temple.

I dump the stone off with Deacon. Knowing what it can do, she
seems like the safest bet. Things are looking pretty good, and
Alexis seems to think so too, so case closed.

This walkthrough is copyright (c) 1991 by Dave Timoney. All rights
reserved.

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