The Lonely Troll
By Amanda Walker
For Glulx interpreters
Solution by Garry Francis
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This is a minimal solution. You'll need to EXAMINE lots of things for this solution to make
sense. If you play with the tutorial on, it forces you to play on rails, meaning a lot of exits are
locked until you have done what is suggested by the tutorial. If you gent stuck (and you
shouldn't, as it's a very easy game), there is a HINT command and an in-game MAP.
Optional (but significant) commands are shown in parentheses. You can omit these once you know what
to do.
Y (to turn tutorial on)
GET APPLE (you can now go south, but don't do it yet)
Z (repeat if necessary until you stub your toe on strange object on 4th turn)
GET OBJECT (you can now go south)
(X IT) (the sphinx can tell you what it is)
S
(TALK TO SPHINX) (she says how much she loves apples)
GIVE APPLE TO SPHINX
TALK TO SPHINX (she asks if you're ready to answer a riddle)
Y
SAY QUESTION MARK (or SAY ?) (object is dragon egg, she gives you a book)
X BOOK
READ 1 (cyclopes grow carrots)
READ 2 (put dragon eggs in fire, feed pearls & heartblossoms, touch with wand)
READ 3 (sing to fairy, wand's power comes from griffin feathers)
READ 4 (griffins eat bubbleberries, fertilised by unicorn poop)
READ 5 (mermaids love jewels)
READ 6 (phoenix's fire is fuelled by dragon eggs, their tears turn into opals)
READ 7 (trolls grow apples)
READ 8 (distract unicorn by feeding it carrots)
E
(TALK TO PHOENIX) (it's trying to burn up so that it can be reborn)
GIVE EGG TO PHOENIX (phoenix flies off, baby dragon appears)
GET DRAGON (it perches on your shoulder)
GET OPAL
W
W
(E) (you need magnifying glass before leaving)
GET GLASS (you can now go east)
(X IT) (it's dirty)
E
N
E
(TALK TO MERMAID) (she longs for different jewels)
(WASH GLASS) (jellyfish prevent you)
GIVE OPAL TO MERMAID (mermaid trades it for pearl, jellyfish disappear)
GIVE PEARL TO DRAGON (it gobbles it up and looks more mature)
WASH GLASS (it's now shiny clean)
W
N (rustling in tree sounds like mean fairy)
SING (fairy appears, griffin feather in her wand broke)
E
(TALK TO CYCLOPS) (his vision is blurry)
GIVE GLASS TO CYCLOPS (he gives you a carrot)
W
S
W
GIVE CARROT TO UNICORN (it eats carrot and poops, you can now get flowers)
GET FLOWER
GIVE IT TO DRAGON (it grows bigger)
GET POOP
E
S
W
DROP POOP (bubbleberry pods burst open)
GET BERRIES
E
N
N
W
GIVE BERRIES TO GRIFFIN (it sheds a gold feather)
GET FEATHER
E
GIVE FEATHER TO FAIRY (she repairs her wand and turns baby dragon into adult)
S (you're sad because dragon flies off, you go to bed and wake up in morning)
OPEN DOOR (dragon returns, along with some other friends, lonely days are over)
***THE END***
