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- Circuit's Edge
- Part 3
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- Ok, so you've rescued Abdul; time to see what Mahmoud will hand you as a
- reward for this service. How about that...you get a static gun...and, at
- last, a holodisk viewer! (Also, somewhere along the line, Papa will send you
- some more kiam for performing the rescue)
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- Now, why is that so great? Well, you haven't found Tamara yet, right? And she
- is certainly in the middle of things, so getting hold of her might really help
- you find Papa's notebook.
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- If it hasn't occurred to you before, Tamara must have been planning on some
- heavy-duty cosmetic surgery...and there's only one place in or out of the
- Budayeen where she could get it, namely the medical clinic.
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- However, the nurse is not terrific with names, so if you could only show her
- a picture...and now, with the viewer, you can do that. So visit the clinic
- with both the disk and the viewer. Yep, the nurse remembers her, all right.
- But the info isn't going to come free; the lady wants a pair of emerald
- earrings as the price for telling.
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- Hoping your bankbook will be able to stand the strain, you go to Jewels of
- Morocco and ask about the emerald earrings (emerald, not earrings). Too late
- again, they've been sold to, of all people, a street dealer. So it's back to
- Chiri's where you question any street dealers present about the earrings. A
- little baksheesh elicits some vague info about a blonde.
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- To save some time, the woman who bought the earrings is Lily at the Red Light
- Lounge. She isn't at all willing to give them up, so some persuasion is
- necessary. Lily, by the way, usually shows up late, so you can take out a few
- hours here for a nap if you prefer.
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- How to get the earrings? They're shaped like serpents, right? And there just
- happens to be a House of Snakes in the Budayeen. Go there and buy the green
- snake. Give it to Lily, and snatch the earrings during the confusion. Now you
- can hand the earrings over to the nurse, who tells you that Tamara signed in
- as Arissa Lockhart.
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- At last! Nip back to Chiri's and ask Arissa about Tamara. Now that you *really*
- know, she admits it, tells you most of the background about the notebook, and
- promises to turn it over to you. She just has to get it, first. Hang out and
- wait for her call.
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- When you get to her apartment, you find the door open. Uh oh. Cautiously,
- expecting the worst, you slip inside. Whew! No mangled corpse. In fact, no
- corpse of any kind...just a note that says you better make tracks for the
- warehouse.
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- However, before doing that, it is wise to take some precautions. First, if you
- need healing, visit the clinic and get fixed up. Then go to your apartment and
- pick up the black key, if you don't have it with you already. Make sure you
- have the Outlaw chip in your rack. Save the game.
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- Just before you enter the warehouse, chip in Outlaw. Inside, you find the
- repulsive Abu Salah, along with Tamara/Arissa, who is fastened to a really
- nasty torture machine. In the time-honored fashion of all villains, Abu
- gloats over his supposed victory, giving a detailed and stomach-turning
- description of what he has in mind for the hapless girl.
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- Then he raises his own weapon to shoot you. This is your chance...use your
- own gun (the static pistol) and shoot to disable. Two shots is all it should
- take to put Salah down for the count. It certainly felt good to do that, and
- I had a sneaking regret that I couldn't stick him in his own nefarious device.
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- However, it ain't over til the fat lady sings, and she hasn't opened her mouth
- yet. After you pick up Papa's notebook, Salah revives briefly, just long
- enough to set the infernal machine going, then pegs out for good. Tamara might
- do the same, if you can't stop the thing in time. Fortunately, you brought the
- black key with you, so it's no trouble at all to turn it off and free the girl.
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- Well, it certainly has been a long, bloody trail to the notebook, but you
- finally have it. And now that you do, better not waste too much time bringing
- it to Papa, who will be most pleased. In fact, you get to move out of that
- slummy apartment and right in with Papa himself! Doesn't that make you feel
- really good? (Heh!) Even if it doesn't, you can at least relax a little,
- cause the fat lady's warbling now (grin).
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- Circuit's Edge is copyrighted 1990 by Infocom.
- This walkthru is copyrighted 1990 by Scorpia, all rights reserved.
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