level9/hints/solutions/price.sol

THE PRICE OF MAGIK
Level 9 (1986)
Walk Through by Dorothy Millard (C64 & Spectrum Versions)

Notes
1. There were three different versions available for the Spectrum: A
text-only version, a graphic version with reduced text, and a Spectrum 128K
version with full text and graphics. 
2. There is no limit to the number of items carried.
3. You should avoid combat unless it is essential, as dealing with your
opponent's ghosts saps your stamina and slows progress through the game.
4. Casting magik spells costs you years so check "SCORE" at regular
intervals.  Touching the red moon reduces your game age.   If you become 80
you're living dangerously and at 100 you're dead.

Magik Spells and Uses
1. BOM - Brings inanimate items to life (focii trumpet)
2. DED - Cancels all spells (focii alloy wheel)
3. DET - Detects danger (focii elder cross)
4. DOW - Checks the magikal properties of target (focii pendulum)
5. ESP - Look into another room (focii crystal ball)
6. FIN - Turns mail-clad target into a fish (focii silver mail)
7. FIX - Cures target of injuries (focii valerian)
8. FLY - Causes target to "levitate" (focii broom)
9. HYP - Hypnotises target to obey you (focii staff)
10. IBM - Scares the target (focii blue box)
11. KIL - Madly confuses target in combat (focii axe)
12. MAD - Angers target (focii grimoire)
13. SAN - Restores sanity to target (focii claw)
14. SEE - Detects secret doors (focii feldspar lens)
15. SPY - See into room of target (focii candle)
16. XAM - Examines the "magik" properties of the target (focii prism)
17. ZAP - Magikally attacks target with lightning (focii ashes)
18. ZEN - Transports you to mists of time (focii mirror)

Walk Through
(Start on a winding drive), EXAMINE KNOCKER (word "ESP" is moulded into the
knocker), W (woodshed), EXAMINE WOODPILE (ready for a fire, underneath it
is something nasty), EXAMINE NASTY (it oozes away into the ground), GET
CANDLE, EXAMINE CANDLE (it is burning weakly), LIGHT WOODPILE (it is soon
converted to ashes), EXTINGUISH CANDLE (if you don't extinguish the candle
as early as possible it burns completely away - taking with it your "focii"
for the SPY spell), GET ASHES, W (herb garden), TAKE ALL (eyebright flowers
and mandrake - the mandrake screams as you grab it - Do you want to
continue?), YES (you wrench it from the ground and some things fall from
around it's roots... you take the skull, knucklebone and elder cross),
EXAMINE ALL (eyebright flowers - magical plant, mandrake - weed, skull -
human, knucklebone - has a ring, ashes - remains of woodpile, candle - half
burnt, elder cross - wooden), EXAMINE RING (set with a solitaire diamond),
DROP MANDRAKE, REMOVE RING FROM KNUCKLEBONE, DROP KNUCKLEBONE, DROP SKULL.

E, E, U (the vine), U, U (top of vine), U (onto the roof), U, RUB EYEBRIGHT
INTO EYES, W (into the attic), N, EXAMINE WARDROBE, GET ROBES, WEAR ROBES,
S (alcove), CUT MIRROR WITH DIAMOND, GET SMALL MIRROR, LOOK (a new exit has
been created to the south), S (recess), GET PRISM, EXAMINE PRISM (inscribed
"XAM"), N, W, GET CAGE (this is to house the bat later, but you can also do
this without the cage if you prefer), SW, SE (office), EXAMINE TABLE (the
word "MAD" is inscribed there), GET SCROLL, GET KNIFE, READ SCROLL (tells
you how to cast spells), NW, NE, E, E (back to the roof), D (the vine), D,
D, D, D (winding drive), CUT VINE (you cut a staff from the vine), GET
STAFF.

KNOCK DOOR, OPEN DOOR, IN (entrance hall), EXAMINE POSTCARD (deliveries
have been suspended), NW, EXAMINE CLOCK, GET PENDULUM, EXAMINE PENDULUM
(Inscribed with "DOW"), WAIT (until the clock goes "BOM"), E (broom
cupboard), GET BROOM, W, SE, W, W, NW, N, NE, N (anti-alcove - a red moon
is here and there is a feeling of magik), TOUCH MOON, TOUCH MOON (again -
this action reduces your game age to 20 years old), S, SW, N, N, UP, E, N,
NE, NE (roof garden), GET VALERIAN, EXAMINE VALERIAN (a magik herb), GET
WOLFSBANE, NW, UP (belfry), GET BAT, EXAMINE BELL (caste from tonnes of
bronze), D, SE, SE, EXAMINE WARGAME (re-enacts a massacre), SW, W, W, DROP
BAT (you almost fall over a wheel which rolls out of sight), CAST HYP AT
BAT, BAT TAKE WHEEL (the bat flies off and returns with the wheel), GET
WHEEL, GET BAT.

S, SE (oak panelled corridor), PUSH PANEL (a group of panels swing back as
a door), LOOK (there is a new exit to the east), E (store room), EXAMINE
SWORD (it is pushed into the floor of this room from the ceiling of the
location directly under this), PULL LEVER (the sword drops down below where
it can be picked up later), W, S, E (another store room), GET SHOVEL, W,
NW, SW (cellar), EXAMINE CHESTS (there are ten of them all coloured
differently, ie. black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet,
grey, white - it is necessary to magikally examine each one in turn with
the DOW spell to establish which one contains the salt that you will need,
to do this you will need to study the action of the pendulum when the spell
is cast... a circular movement of the pendulum indicates no contents, a
side to side motion is the indication that you've located the correct
chest... the colour of the chest containing the salt is randomly allocated
for each game), CAST DOW AT (colour) CHEST (repeat this with each chest in
turn until you get the correct response from the pendulum), OPEN (colour)
CHEST, EXAMINE (colour) CHEST, GET SALT.

NE, SE, SW (arch-roofed corridor (you see an inscription on the ceiling),
CAST FLY AT ME (you float into the air), READ INSCRIPTION ("HYP"), WAIT
(until the "FLY" spell wears off), NE, N, N, NE, S (Musty hall), EXAMINE
TAPESTRY (showing a healer), E, D, W, NW (bone chamber), GET BONES, EXAMINE
BONES (human), S, SE, GET SWORD, EXAMINE SWORD ("Excalibur" backwards), S
(the werewolf leaves you alone because you have the wolfsbane for
protection), SW, SE, OPEN DOOR, OUT, W, W (you have now to bury all the
bones to enable you to get the plate armour), GET SKULL, GET KNUCKLEBONE,
BURY BONES, BURY SKULL, BURY KNUCKLEBONE (a ghost says you can now have the
plate armour), E, E, OPEN DOOR, IN, NW, NE, N, NW, N, W (echoing crypt),
GET PLATE ARMOUR.

E, E, N, N (library), EXAMINE GRIMOIRE (a tome which explains that you must
be mad to use magik), GET GRIMOIRE, NW (study), EXAMINE DESK, GET
PARCHMENT, READ PARCHMENT (the "ZEN" spell allows rapid movement), SE, S,
NW, SW (collapsing junction), CUT CURTAIN (the enchanted curtain
disappears), LOOK (you now go west), W, S (inner sanctum), GET FELDSPAR
LENS, N, E, N, NW (laboratory where the word "SEE" is written on one wall),
SE, S, NE, SE, N, NW (study surrounded by dark shadows), CAST SEE (you see
a hidden exit leading north), N (dusty priest's hole where the word "DET"
is scrawled in blood on the wall), SE, N (magnificent treasury), GET BAG,
EXAMINE BAG (in it is some gold), S, NW, S, SE, S, S, W, S, SE, S, SW, SE,
W, W, NW, N, NE, N (anti-alcove), TOUCH MOON, TOUCH MOON again), S, SW, S.

S (slime slide where a giant slug attacks you and the blow strikes your
armour), THROW SALT AT SLUG (it drives it away), DOWN, EXAMINE STATUE
("SPY" is written on it's left foot), DOWN (chute to a circular room), S,
SW, SE, NE, S, S, E (ominous chamber where "FLY": is written on the wall),
W, N, N, SW, SW, NW, NW, S, S, W (to where the metallic golem is), EXAMINE
METALLIC GOLEM (wearing some silver mail), REMOVE ROBES, GIVE ROBES TO
GOLEM (just what he was looking for - he quickly changes into the robes and
hands you the silver mail), DOWN, NW, SW, W, SE, E, SE (web cavern), CUT
WEB (it collapses on the spider), GET CROWBAR, W, N, NW, E, NE.

W (landing stage where a ferryman is here standing in a boat - he needs
paying), GIVE CROWBAR (he says, "I suppose that will do, Hop in"), HOP IN
(you are now in the boat on the river), CAST FIN AT ME (you are transformed
into a fish), DOWN (riverbed), READ PLAQUE (reads "SAN"), WAIT (until the
"FIN" spell wears off and you are returned to the boat), TAKE ALL (this
latter command is extremely important because when you transformed all your
possessions were automatically "dropped" in the boat - if you forget and
get out of the boat you cannot retrieve anything as you have nothing with
which to pay the ferryman), N, N, N (to where the colossal bloodworm is -
the bat deals with the bloodworm for you), N, NW, N, SW, S (temple - above
the altar is a weight), CAST FLY AT WEIGHT (to prevent it from falling upon
you when you attempt to take the talisman), GET TALISMAN.

N, NE, NE (hall of statues), EXAMINE CHERUB (carrying a trumpet), CAST ZAP
AT CHERUB (until it is dead and disappears), LOOK, GET TRUMPET, SE, NE, N
(towards the gate - a voice says before you may enter you must offer a gift
to Myglar), GIVE PENDULUM, N (as you go through a monkey drops on your
back), S, SW, CAST ZEN (you are transported to the mists of time), S, S, D
(cold store), WAIT (and the cold is enough to freeze the b***s off the
monkey - the monkey runs off), EXAMINE SNOW, GET CRYSTAL BALL, GET BLACK
BALL, CAST ZEN (you are transported to the mists of time), S, E, D
(anti-alcove), TOUCH MOON, TOUCH MOON, S, SW, S, SE (rock walled room),
EXAMINE PICTURE (of Stonehenge), CAST BOM AT PICTURE (you are sucked into
the picture and transported to a standing stone at Stonehenge), SE, SE, W,
NW, S (carved pedestal), GET BLUE BOX, EXAMINE BLUE BOX ("IBM is written
here), N, SW, W, NE, NE, N (back to the rock walled room).

RUB TALISMAN (you're transported to a stone archway on the other plain), N,
NE, E, E, IN (pillar), D (the steps), D, D, SW, N (you are in spherical
rock bubble), READ RIDDLE (the answer is "FEAR"), S, NE, U, U, U, OUT, SW
(lake shore), EXAMINE LAKE (sparkling water), DRINK WATER, RUB TALISMAN
(you're transported back to the rock-walled room), (check your "Age" and
"SANITY" at this stage - if 50 or over go to the red moon in the
anti-alcove and touch it twice), CAST ZEN (you are transported to the mists
of time), S, E, E, E, E, S, S, S, S, D (winding corridor), N, N, SE, N
(dark room), EXAMINE PICTURE (showing a dark spawn clawing its way through
the earth), CAST BOM AT PICTURE (the dark spawn leaps from the picture - in
it's frenzy it breaks a claw on the frame), GET CLAW, S, CAST ZEN (you are
transported to the mists of time).

S, E, E, E, E, S, S, S, D (portico), CAST IBM AT ANTS (they try to hide in
a corner), OPEN DOOR, IN, N, NW, N, N, SE (stone room - the door to the
east of this room cannot be opened from this side), CAST ESP EAST (and your
spiritual form arrives east of the door), EXAMINE IDOL (a huge stone
representation of Myglar), CAST ESP EAST (again), CAST BOM AT IDOL (it
wakes but you return), CAST ESP EAST, CAST HYP AT IDOL (the idol looks at
you expectantly), CAST ESP EAST, IDOL OPEN DOOR, LOOK (you return to the
stone room but the eastern door is now open), E, NE, S (great stone room ),
S (the floor is so cold that you jump back), CAST FLY AT ME (this first
cast destroys the black ball which was used to absorb an offensive spell
against you, but you shouldn't need it's protection any more), CAST FLY AT
ME (you float into the air), S.

S (moon room where the moonbeast attacks you), WAVE MIRROR (the moonbeast
runs away from it's own reflection), EXAMINE GARGOYLE (a hideous winged
monster), NW (the gargoyle says "Before you may enter the tomb of Myglar,
you must tell me the answer to the riddle"), FEAR, CAST ESP NW (this is the
only safe way to enter Myglar's tomb), CAST SAN AT MYGLAR (Myglar stares at
you from newly sane eyes, haunted by the final realisation of his crimes -
you now return to your normal form back in the moon room), CAST ESP NW,
CAST DED AT MYGLAR (there is a loud thunderclap as Myglar's magik is
neutralised... he crumples as time regains it's power and soon nothing
remains of the proud wizard but ancient dust).

Well done you have won the right to take Myglar's place
as guardian of the Red Moon Crystal.

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