DARK STORM
Written by Shawn P. Hill 1989 (Global Software)
Walk Through by Dorothy Millard (Spectrum Version)
Scenario
Your father, a hero of the great rebellion which freed Sertania from the tyrannical rule of the Dark
Lord, has been kidnapped. Evil looms and a truly dark storm is rising once again. You must find
him.
Notes
1. When you become hungry EAT APPLE or EAT BREAD.
2. There are several timed locations when you should not delay typing the next command, for example
when you meet the trolls.
Walk Through
(Start in your house - leave the quill and apple for now), READ MESSAGE, E (bedroom),
EXAMINE CHEST (it was your father's - don't open it yet), PUSH CHEST (under loft door),
STAND ON CHEST, U (loft - notice the floorboards are loose), LIFT UP FLOORBOARDS (find ten gold
coins and a knife), EXAMINE KNIFE (sharp), D, OPEN CHEST (contains a note, a coat, a blanket, a
small bottle and a rucksack), GET ALL FROM CHEST, READ NOTE (from your father - a mysterious man
with a long beard tells you he will guide you, then disappears), DROP NOTE, EXAMINE COAT (no
pockets), WEAR COAT, GET RUCKSACK FROM CHEST, EXAMINE RUCKSACK (has leather straps), WEAR RUCKSACK,
DROP BLANKET (don't need it), EXAMINE BOTTLE (contains ink), PUT BOTTLE IN RUCKSACK, PUT
KNIFE IN RUCKSACK, W, GET APPLE, EXAMINE APPLE (fresh - eat it when you become hungry).
OPEN DOOR - N (ruins of fabled mountain), N (old bridge which will collapse if you are carrying too
much - north is a small door), EXAMINE DOOR, BREAK DOOR, N (dark tunnel), NE (rocky cavern), N
(featureless cave), N (small wet cavern), NW (alcove), GET ALL (lit torch and spade), EXAMINE TORCH,
SE, N (large cavern where you meet trolls - don't hang around in this timed location), OPEN
DOOR (the sunlight turns the troll to stone), N, W (rocky road), N (store), BUY SNOWSHOES, WEAR
SNOWSHOES, BUY BREAD, BUY STRING (leave the rest for now), S, E, N (soft snow - must be wearing
snowshoes), DIG SNOW (using spade - you uncover a door), DROP SPADE, OPEN DOOR, N (tunnel like room
containing a body), SEARCH ROOM (find a map hidden in a corner), EXAMINE MAP (can't read it),
EXAMINE BODY, SEARCH BODY (you find three coins and a pair of spectacles), EXAMINE SPECTACLES
(there's something strange about them), WEAR SPECTACLES, READ MAP (must be wearing spectacles -
graphic showing that you need to cross a river to reach your goal), S, S, REMOVE SNOWSHOES - DROP
SNOWSHOES.
W, N (back to store), BUY AXE, S, W (coniferous forest at river), CHOP TREES (into logs using the
axe), MAKE RAFT (using the logs and twine), BOARD RAFT (you cross the river), W (in this area you
will attacked by bandits and robbed, but they only take the money that you have left), SW (a man
tied to a rock asks for help), UNTIE MAN (he gasps for water, tells you that the dragon has a
weakness, then dies), NE, E (river), GET BOTTLE FROM RUCKSACK, POUR INK, FILL BOTTLE (with water
from the river), W, NW, (you are confronted by a dragon), POUR WATER (on dragon who screams in pain
and flies off), W, SEARCH SKELETONS (you find and take a hammer), NW (stone circle - note DO NOT go
to the poppy field), EXAMINE STATUE (a plinth with some writing on it), READ WRITING (must be
wearing spectacles.... says "He who seeketh truth and justice, come forward and touch my
sword"), TOUCH SWORD (you are now given the mystic sword).
NW (the path narrows), CAREFULLY NW (entrance to a huge fortress), EXAMINE DOOR (shut), READ WRITING
(must be wearing spectacles - beware he who enters), PULL LEVER (too stiff), HIT LEVER (with hammer
- door opens), N (you are confronted by orc guards), KILL GUARDS (must be carrying the mystic sword
and axe and wearing the coat and rucksack - you receive light injuries and they flee), SEARCH
(notice a large slab in the centre of the courtyard), LIFT SLAB (reveals a gaping hole), D (you are
attacked by the Dark Lord whom you will defeat if you are carrying the mystic sword), SEARCH (find a
length of wire), E (dungeons where you see your father in one of the cells), PICK LOCK (using the
wire... the door swings open and you run across to your father and hug him... the man in blue
appears and congratulates you).
Well done you have completed this adventure.
SCORE 100%
Taken from Dorothy Irene's site: http://dorothyirene.fateback.com/
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