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STAR GUIDE

The
Secret of Monkey Island – Complete Walkthorugh

Arrival on Melee Island

• You start off having a brief
  chat with the lookout. He tells you to go to the Scumm
  Bar if you want to become a pirate.
• When you take control of
  Guybrush, you will come across the Scumm Bar. Go inside.
• Talk to the pirate leaders to
  learn you have to perform three tasks in order to become
  a pirate. These tasks are mastering the sword, pilfering
  the idol and finding the treasure of Melee Island.
• Open the kitchen door. Now
  wait for the chef to walk into the other room and head
  for the kitchen.
• Pick up the pot and the meat.
  Go outside step on the plank of wood a few times, so the
  bird fly’s off. Now quickly pick up the red herring.
• Go out of the village and
  onto the map. Go to the pink clearing.
• You should be at the circus.
  Talk to the Fetuccini brothers to learn they need someone
  to fire from the cannon.
• Volunteer to be fired, and
  when they ask for a helmet give them the pot. Receive
  your money, and head back to the town.

Mastering the sword

• Go to the shop, and buy the
  sword.
• Talk to the shopkeeper. Ask
  him about the sword master. Follow him to find her house.
  Don’t challenge her yet though.
• Head to the house on the far
  right of the map. When the troll stops you, give him the
  red herring.
• When you arrive at the house,
  demand to be trained at sword fighting.
• After you are trained up, go
  and fight the pirates until you have learned answers to
  lots of insults. When you are ‘good enough to beat
  the sword master, go and fight her.
• The sword master uses
  different insults, but you they still have the same
  answers. After defeating her collect your T-shirt and
  leave.

Treasure Hunting

• Go back to town. Buy a map
  from the man with a parrot on his shoulder, and go to the
  shop and buy a shovel to dig up the treasure with.
• Go the fork and follow the
  map.
• When you find the treasure,
  dig it up and you will get – Another T-shirt!

Pilfering the Idol

• Go to the fork, and go back.
  Pick up a yellow flower, and use it with the meat you got
  at the Scumm bar.
• Feed the condemned meat to
  the dogs outside the governor’s mansion.
• Go into the mansion and open
  the first door you see.
• After the cut-scene, learn
  you need a file.
• Go into the prison. Learn
  prisoner has bad breath.
• Go into the shop. Talk to the
  shopkeeper and buy some breath mints
• Give the breath mints to the
  prisoner (Otis). Give Otis the gopher repellent you
  obtained during the cut-scene. Receive the carrot cake.
• Use Carrot cake, and you will
  get a file. Now you can go get the idol.
• After the cut-scene you will
  be at the bottom of the sea. Pick up the idol.
• Learn that Lechuck has taken
  away Elaine, and that you need a crew of three and a ship.

Finding a crew

• Go to the voodoo lady in the
  town. Pick up the rubber chicken.
• Go to the shore (top-left of
  the map). Use the rubber chicken on the wire.
• Enter the house, and ask
  Meathook to join your crew. You will have to touch a
  vicious beast before he joins though.
• Visit the sword master and
  show her the ransom note. She will join your crew.
• Now go into town, and into
  the Scumm bar. Pick up all the empty mugs, and fill one
  up with grog.
• You have to successfully
  carry the grog to the prison cell and release Otis. To do
  this keep on using mug with mug so that the grog is still
  there.
• Use the grog on the cell to
  release Otis. He’ll run off but will join you later.

Getting a Ship

• Now go to Stan’s (lights
  on the map). Ask him about credit.
• Go to town and to the shop.
  Ask the shopkeeper for a note of credit, and memorize the
  safe combination.
• Ask the shopkeeper to find
  you the sword master. When he goes enter the safe
  combination and get the note of credit.
• Go back to Stan’s and
  talk extras. Refuse the extras. Then ask him for a price.
  If it’s too high, then walk away and he’ll call
  you back. You can do this twice.
• When the ship is bought, all
  you need to do is go back to the town, where your ship
  and crew are waiting. Stan will give you some handy
  leaflets that you’ll need later.

On Board the Sea Monkey

• When you get on the ship, you’ll
  be in the bedroom. Open the drawer and take out the book.
  Look at it to discover there is a bookmark that comes
  with it.
• Open the cupboard to find a
  locked chest.
• Leave the room, and climb the
  mast.
• Pick up the Flag and climb
  back down.
• Go down the hatch and down
  the ladder into the cellar
• Pick up the gunpowder from
  the kegs on the left and open the chest to get the wine.
  Pick up the rope as well.
• Now go up a floor and then
  down into the kitchen. Pick up the Pot and open the
  cupboard. Pick up the cereal.
• Open the cereal to get a
  prize, and open the prize to discover a small key.
• Go back to the bedroom and
  open the chest. Pick up the Cinnamon sticks and the
  recipe book
• Pick up the Quill and the Ink.
• Now go to the kitchen and put
  all the inventory you can into the pot, but put the
  gunpowder in last.
• There should be an explosion,
  and when you wake you should be beside Monkey Island.
• Now use any piece of paper
  you have on the fire underneath the cooking pot.
• Go to the cellar and pick up
  some more gunpowder.
• Next go to the deck and use
  the gunpowder in the cannon nozzle. Use the rope on the
  cannon, and use the pot as a helmet. You will be blasted
  to Monkey Island.

Arrival on Monkey Island

• You will start on the beach
  and meet Herman Toothrot. When you get up, pick up the
  banana.
• On the map, go to the fort in
  the Volcano. Push over the cannon and pick up the
  gunpowder. Pick up the rope, the cannonball and the
  spyglass too.
• Go to the river fork. Pick up
  the rock and climb up the footholds.
• Push the sculpture so it is
  in a straight line and walk past. Climb up the footholds.
• Push the rock off the cliff.
  It should hit the banana tree. If it doesn’t, adjust
  the layout of the sculpture.
• Climb back down. Use the
  gunpowder on the dam. Use the ‘Noteworthy rock’
  with the cannonball to blow up the dam and fill up the
  river with water.
• Go to the pond and pick up
  the rope that the hangman is holding.
• Go to the canyon. Use the
  ropes to climb down it and pick up the Oars.
• Now go back to the beach you
  started on, and use the oars on the boat. Pick up the two
  bananas on the ground too.
• Paddle to the other side of
  the island and enter the cannibal village.
• Pick up the bananas at the
  far left and you will get captured and thrown into a
  prison by the three cannibals.
• Whilst in the prison, pick up
  the loose floorboard and escape from the hut.
• Take the boat back to the
  other side of the island and go to visit the monkey.

Finding Lechuck

• Give the monkey all the
  bananas in your inventory and it will follow you. Take it
  to the giant monkey head.
• Pull the nose on the totem
  pole. The monkey will do the same, allowing you access to
  the monkey head.
• Go into the grounds and pick
  up the wimpy little idol.
• Go back to your boat and
  paddle to the cannibal village.
• When you are captured, give
  them the wimpy little idol. Now you can go in the hut and
  get the banana picker.
• Give the banana picker to
  Herman Toothrot and he will give you the key to the giant
  monkey head. Leave the village.
• Enter the village again. Talk
  to the cannibals and learn about the navigator’s
  head.
• Give the cannibals the
  leaflet entitled ‘How to get ahead in navigating’
  you will get the navigator’s head.
• Go back to the monkey head.
  Use the key in the monkey’s ear.
• Inside the canyon, use the
  navigator’s head. Follow it until you find the ghost
  ship.
• Talk to the head. Ask him for
  the necklace, and keep threatening him until you get it.
• Use the necklace and board
  the ship.
• On board the Ghost Ship
• Open the door on the left and
  use the magnetic compass on the key.
• Go down the hatch and keep on
  going until you reach the room with the animals. Pick up
  the chicken’s feather.
• Enter the dormitories and use
  the ghost feather on the pirate’s feet. He will drop
  his grog, so pick it up.
• Go back to the animal room
  and unlock the hatch.
• Go down and use the grog in
  the rat’s bowl. Pick up the grease.
• Head to the deck and use the
  grease on the squeaky door to the right.
• Go through the door and pick
  up the ghost tools.
• Go down to the animal room
  again and use the ghost tools on the crate. Take the root
  and you will be taken back to the cannibals where your
  ghost spray will be made.
• Watch the cut – scene
  and learn you have to go back to Melee island to stop
  Lechuck from marrying Elaine.

Back to Melee Island

• When you arrive on Melee
  Island head straight for the church.
• Destroy the ghosts that stop
  you with your root spray.
• When you get to the church
  stop the wedding, and you will find that the cap on your
  spray is stuck.
• Lechuck will begin to punch
  you around and you will eventually land in Stan’s
  grog machine.
• Pick up the root beer that
  falls out of the machine and use it on Lechuck
• You have now completed The
  Secret of Monkey Island!