Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands
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From the word processor of Mike Varela, here is the completeion cheater needed for ZORK: NEMESIS. This contains logic bits to the game that I found irritatingly missing in the cheater this server hasfiled on the game. So, here goes... Zork: Nemesis Addendum Since the ZN cheater that¹s available on this server is accurate up to a point, this addendum fills in the blanks, and will assist the gamer by having the goal of the game firmly in mind before play is initiated. I¹ll present the needed fillers in the natural order of the game¹s storyboard, plus the cheater for the last part, Phase 3, of the game. Game Story YOU have to resurrect and free the four EVIL elements before you can resurrect and free the genuine good guy and his wife -- who will, in turn, aide YOU, the Nemesis, in rekilling the four evil elements with the infinity ring. (Don¹t worry, you¹ll know what ³infinity ring² means when you get to the end [Phase 3] of the game). Mouse Clicking Pointers Left click the mouse to activate or pick up objects. Right click the mouse to scroll through your inventory. Then when you get to an icon (e.g., the normal mouse arrow that you will want back on the screen when moving through rooms), or inventory object within your inventory that you want to use, left click the mouse to use it or apply it onto some object that¹s relevant to the scene in the game. Phase 1... You must LOCATE the ROOM(S) of these four elements within the Tibetan monastery by following the map illustrated in your small ZN booklet. That booklet is the ZN insert pamphlet that came inside the game¹s CD case. Refer to that map whenever you need to locate the room(s) where you have to find a particular element¹s lair. It's in each lair that you need to enter to work the puzzles that will resurrect each element. The weird symbols on the map, signifying where each lair is located for each element -- including what planet they belong to, are located in books found in both the monastery¹s library and lab. (Use lots of note paper and pencil to record all this data contained in the books, as ZN is not as beautifully advanced as SHIVERS, wherein you have some capability of recording what you observe in a searchable hardrive file.) Phase 2... You must travel to four planets and work the puzles on each planet to free a device from each planet. You then carry each device/talisman from the planet where you found it back to earth and lay it on the magic four-element table to free each element. That's why you have to teleport yourself to each planet. Phase 3... Yes! The unmentionable part of the game: the endplay! At this point, make sure you SAVE the game after refusing to drink the poison offered by the evil four-elements (YOU refuse the drink by merely waiting it out until the chalice disintegrates!!!). NOW ... GO DIRECTLY to the monastery¹s pavilion where the water fountains are. DO NOT go on any tours of the place, examining any rooms, etc., as the evil four-flushing-elements will get ya if you do! Now, at the two waterfall fountains in the middle of the pavilion, click on the horns of each water fountain so you can see that they¹re merely ON/OFF switches to the water flow. However, ONE OF THE fountains, when turned off, has a BUTTON hidden behind its waterfall! Click on it, as this is your way into a secret tomb, wherein lies the good guy¹s dead wife. Your goal here is to resurrect the dead babe. In the tomb of the known babe, go directly to her sarcophagus and take the silver ring off the corpse). You should now have both the gold and silver wedding rings. Now ... try to LOOK UP from that position. If you can¹t, you need to CIRCLE AROUND the sarcophagus, and try LOOKING UP on each side. What you¹re looking for up there, in the canopy of the sarcophagus, is a sceptre that you¹ll need to pick up for your inventory so you can smash a glass globe a little bit later on. If you find that you can't LOOK UP at this stage of the game, then you will need to activate two of the three statues, then return to repeat the circling and looking up routine around the sarcophagus for the sceptre. The 3-Statue Affair... Now, take the silver and gold wedding rings and place them within the infinity mold that¹s beneath the lizard(?) statue. Activate the statue¹s flame by clicking on its head or its diamond-tipped sceptre, and it will melt the rings into an infinity symbol. This is the ³infinity ring² previously alluded to. Remove the mold with hot infinity ring and place it beneath the elephant statue. Do the same sort of activation clicking, making the elephant statue hose the hot metal mold with cool water. Remove the infinity ring from the mold at this point and place it beneath the glass globe that the last statue is holding. SMASH THE GLOBE WITH YOUR SCEPTRE. Then after the movie seque, you¹ll find yourself on a high walkway above the four-elements¹ sarcophagus pavilion within the temple. Click the infinity ring on the unholy four elements, who are still busy plotting evil below, and destroy them. Watch next movie seque that finishes game. Relax now, you¹re the good nemesis that this unhappy couple was looking for! You¹ve saved their bacon! Hooray! Mike Varela June 1996
