________ The One Who Drinks _________ \ ____ \ My Blood / ___ / | \ \ Will Live Forever. / \/ | \ \ ____ ___ ____ | l__ ! > > _ \ / I __| \__ \ | | / /| / / / /| | | > > | |___/ / ! |\ \/ __| | l__ __ / L______/ |_ \_\/ | | ____i____/ >> P r E s E n T s << --------------- FLIGHT OF THE AMAZON QUEEN (solution) The lenghty intro leaves Joe locked up in a dressing room by his arch enemy Anderson, who firmly intends to use the Amazon Queen to transport the glamorous Faye to her Brazilian film location. It's the beginning of the game, so you'll want to pick up everything you can wrench out of the scenery. Use the curtain cord and pick up the wig from the recess - it's likely to be useful later on. If you pick up the two lots of sheets from the floor, you'll see a laundry chute. Join them together to form a sheet rope and then fix the rope to the radiator. Use the rope, climb down the chute and drope into the basement. There's a door over on the right but it's locked. You can only pick up a few items off the cupboard, so move the ladder and collect some comedy breasts and a crowbar from, quite unsurprisingly (through it may shock some of you), the box of crowbars. Head up the stairs to the left. If you try and get Joe past the goons by the door, they'll throw him back in the locked room upstairs, so go as far as the reception and talk to the bellboy about the key. If Joe says that he's a friend of Lola, the bellboy will let him have the key, so take it and head downstairs. Use the key on the locked door, and head inside. When you talk to Lola it becomes apparent she's clearly an old flame of Joe, but now she's seeing the wretched Anderson - Blergh. And possibly Sparky the mechanic too. Cripes. Ask Lola for help and after she's moaned about Joe a bit, she hops in the shower and demands a towel. Now for the game's least logical puzzle. HOT AND STEAMY Joe needs to climb back up the sheet rope into the locked room and use the crowbar on the chest to find a fluffy "Enjoy your stay at Hotel Copacabana" towel. Take it back down to Lola and she'll get out of the shower (wayhay) before giving Joe a stunningly sequined dress (grr) - in his size and everything. Use the dress in the basement and, combined with the comedy breasts and that "it's likely to be useful" wig, Joe makes a passable, if not mildly attractive, woman. Wobble him over to the stairs in a bid to make it through the foyer unmolested. The goons soon realise they've been fooled and start chasing. Change Joe back into his normal clothes, then pick up the oil hidden under the hay. Throw the chicken (just for fun) and then use the oil on Rico's car, splattering the windscreen and making him crash. Joe arrives at the airport just in time to stop Anderson whisking Faye away. Whatever Joe says, he'll end up punching Anderson out, but try the insults - they're more fun than all of that "I'm better than you are" nonsense. With the storm brewing, the team get in the plane, fly over the Amazon rainforest and are almost immediately struck down by lightning. When the plane crash lands, the main thing's to recover as many useful items as you can. Open the duffle bag and take the lighter and knife. Look at the waterlogged seat and you'll find a comic coupon, the only surviving bit of Sparky's Commander Rocket comic. Sparky is gutted by the loss of his comic (and who wouldn't be?), as you'll discover if you talk to him. He'll also give Joe some beef jerky. Open the hatch and walk over to it. The water outside is seething with piranhas, so give them the beef jerky and move Joe on to the giant lily. Cut the lily free by using the kinfe on the stem, then pick up the broken propeller and propel the threesome to the bank by using it on the lily. Sparky informs Joe of his need to find a "Commander Rocket Versus the Mob" comic before Joe sets off to find a telephone. Head "north" that is, into the screen. From now on, east is to the right of the screen, south for the front and west for the left hand side. Joe bumps into Wedgewood the parrot, who witters on about Princess Azura being captured and Trader Bob being her only hope. As Wedgewood flies off, cut the vine with the knife (as it'll certainly be helpful... blah, etc.) and carry on down the trail. Soon Joe's path becomes blocked by a huge gorilla, so head back past the plane and see what's to the south. The broken bridge can be repaired using the vine, allowing you to cross to the other side and get the banana. You'd have thought the gorilla would want the banana, but not so. Talking to it will reveal that gorillas live in Africa, not South America at all. Outfoxed by your existential line of argument, the gorilla will implode in a moment of self-doubt, freeing the path up to the pinnacle. From here you can see all of the locations Joe'll be visiting in the adventure, but the main priority is to find civilisation and to find out what the parrot was blabbering on about. Head downhill to Trader Bob's. Meanwhile... Faye gets in a bit of a strop about being left at the crash site, throws a bottle of perfume at Sparky (which misses) and storms off into the jungle. All of this is certainly going to be relevant later on... Wander through the pygmy village and into the amiable shambles of Trader Bob's. Bob knows a lot about what's happening in the jungle, including some rumours about the sinister Floda lederhosen factory where everyone thinks Princess Azura is being held. Most of what's on display in Bob's ins't for sale although the record, the nets, the vacuum cleaner and the alcohol are. Have you got ID to prove your age for the booze though? Nope, thought not. Trade the beef jerky with Bob for some cash and then buy the battery powered vacuum cleaner. Exchange pirate cliches with Wedgewood the parrot and chat to the lovely Naomi. She learned English from the missionaries apparently, and is worried about her date that night with Bob and would willingly swap her hairdressing scissors for some perfume. Aha, get the idea? Your jungle based errands have begun. On the way out of the village, try and talk to the witch doctor. Can't understand her? Okay, time to seek out the missionaries for some method of translation. While Frank is in his secret lab cackling to himself about turning Amazon women into dinosaurs and breaking into the Valley of Mists, Joe's got to climb that huge rock pinnacle again. Pray he's got strong thighs. The missionaries live in the jungle, so head off there. Take the north fork in the path, then head over the fallen tree past the three-toed sloth. COMIC GENIUS In the next cleaning Joe meets Bud and Skip, who're two professional explorers, complete with neato pith helmets and safari suits. Talking to Bud reveals that they're trying to get recaptured by the tribe of Amazon women, as they were released last time because of Bud's embarrassing "heat rash". He says that he'd pay a fortune for a rash cure. Talking to Skip reveals that he's into the same comics as Sparky. Sparky wants a Commander Rocket Vs The Mob issue, which coincidentally is the one Skip has got, and he kindly gives it to Joe. Read the comic yourself for an added bonus. After Joe's looked at it, he notices that one of the pages is loose and that a coupon has been clipped from it. Use this with the soggy coupon from the plane and you'll be able to see the plans for the Commander Rocket Pocket Rocket, plus the Rocket Code, which is handy information indeed. You can now decipher Skip's message, and you also know that a rocket pack uses just a quarter gallon of fuel. Head past Bud and Skip and Joe gets to a waterfall, where a brightly coloured bug is bothering the heck out of a fat fish. It'll make sense soon, these things always do. Head east to find the gorilla's back, only in a stupid, baggy, dinosaur suit. He claims that he's starting to shed - yeah, right. Leave insulting him for a few more minutes and carry on southwards. At last, the missionaries are here, trying to educate a load of monkeys. Jimmy's not very helpful at all to talk to, buy you might glean a few further details about life in the jungle Mary- Lou's the one you want to speak to, and if necessary, have a few chats with her. Find out how she managed to talk to the pygmies, and she'll talk about her English to Pygmy dictionary, although she won't let Joe look at it in case he loses it. She'll also drop a hint about her nail file being blunt, so you now know that she'll swap her dictionary for a new file. GOING BANANAS AND COCONUTS On the way out, give the banana to the middle monkey and then take a coconut off him. Now's the time to insult the gorilla. He'll grudgingly take off his silly costume and, if commanded to vanish, will rather reluctantly do so again, leaving the path through the fallen log clear to take. Joe admits a fear of heights as he emerges from the other end of the log bridge. This may (or may not) be vital to the plot later on. Just past the log bridge is a beautiful orchid being bothered by a load of wasps. Clear them away by sucking them up in the vacuum cleaner and then pick the orchid before carrying on eastwards. As Joe approaches the carvings, he hears a noise and hides. Two beautiful Amazon warriors (conveniently speaking English) have a chat about roast sloth and berries before the stone panel slides shut. Unfortunately, when Joe tries to activate the hidden trigger, he springs a trap instead and ends up in a dungeon filled completely with men. Most of them have nothing much to say, apart from the clearly stupido-mad buffoon Bert, who prattles on and on (and on) about his glove puppets before eventually giving one to Joe. Faye shows up, makes Joe grovel pathetically and then releases him. It seems that all the girls are too feeble to release their princess, and that they need a man to do it, so they ask Joe to do it. Yeah okay, so it's sexist twaddle, but this is the 1940s. You could get away with it then. Now Joe makes his way round the pool and heads west. This brings him out at the entrance to the Amazon castle, and with a short stroll west, plus a big climb up, takes him to the pinnacle again. Joe's got a few more items that he might be able to trade, so let's get back to Trader Bob's. Chat to Bob about love, life and rashes and you won't learn much really. However, armed with the knowledge of his impending date with Naomi, give him the now waspfree orchid and he'll offer you a net from the bucket o'nets. Nets are handy for plucking things out of water such as, such as, that bottle of perfume that Faye threw at Sparky. Brilliant! Even though Joe doesn't know about it yet, we do, so (giggle) check out the (tee-hee) toilet round the side of Trader Bob's and head back to the crash site via the pinnacle. all done by DRACS. CALL THESE BOARD IF YOU WANT YOU CAN LEAVE ME A MAIL. FORTRESS node1 +32 3 8250069 PTL / HOODLUM node2 +32 3 8290872 PEACE CHAPEL node1 +32 2 3313809 SKIDROW node2 +32 2 3311927 EEK A MOUSE node1 +32 2 4112479 PRESTIGE node2 +32 2 4117756 CYBERGARDEN node1 +32 11 333703 PTL BLACK LODGE node1 +32 2 3512163 HOODLUM I support all those boards and I fight to preserve its. And you too ???