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SIMON THE SORCERER

INTRODUCTION

 This walkthrough gives explicit instructions on playing SIMON THE
SORCERER to a successful conclusion. It does, however, assume you
have read the Game Manual and are familiar with the various methods
of controlling your actions.

 In directing you from place to another, I either supply
instructions relative to the screen, right, left, up or down, or
assume you will use the on-line map to zap you to the nearest
location to your next destination. After you have visited a place
once, I assume you will know how to find that place again. However,
if the directions are not clear, I have provided maps as described
in the following General Hints.

 GENERAL HINTS

 MAPS

 Finding your way around may be difficult, despite the on-line map,
so I have made maps. They are in GIF format in the CompuServe Gamers
Forum Adventure Library in the file named SIMNMP.ZIP.

 SIMNMP.ZIP contains:

 VILLAGE.GIF       Map of the Village
 WOODS.GIF         Map of the Woods
 SWPMTN.GIF        Map of the Swamp & Mountains

 CONVERSATIONS

 Be pleasant, cooperative and always offer to help. When conversing
with potential or definite enemies never back off unless you have
completely run out of options. If the conversation doesn't turn out
the way I say, just try another response until it does.

 TAKING RISKS

 Don't be afraid to take risks. Do so. You can't die and you may
need to experience the downside before you can solve the puzzle.

 HINTS

 Visit the Wise Owl in the Woods for random hints. He will always
tell you something useful, but it may be for past or future use.
Hopefully he will occasionally tell you something of immediate use.

 SAVING

 Quite honestly, you don't need to save at all, except before
quitting. You can't die and the game never crashed on me. (The
inventory did become invisible from time to time though!) Anyway,
you may want to replay some sequences again in a different order.
Save as often as feels comfortable. For instance, I saved frequently
during a thunderstorm!

 OPENING SCENES

 Watch the credits! Simon is lounging around in his bedroom bored
with his homework. Meanwhile Simon's dog is exploring the attic.
Hearing barking from upstairs Simon climbs up to the attic and opens
the chest. The dog jumps out and Simon discovers a spellbook.
Handling the spellbook invokes a spell which causes a small local
rift in the fabric of space and time. The dog walks through the rift
and Simon follows...

 Simon finds himself in the middle of a Goblin food invocation
ceremony. The dog hides, but Simon loses his spellbook and is put
into the Goblin's cooking pot! Doggie to the rescue! They both
escape and arrive at Calypso's cottage. Calypso, a Grand High
Wizard, has left a letter for Simon explaining that he has been
captured by the evil wizard Sordid and has brought Simon here to
find and rescue him.

 But first Simon must become a wizard himself so that he can use
Calypso's spellbook...where ever it is now!

 CALYPSO'S COTTAGE

 Take the magnet from the refrigerator door. Open the desk drawer
and take the scissors.

 TAVERN

 Go outside and go right into the village and at the Blacksmith's,
up to the tavern. Open the door and go into the tavern. Look at the
fruit machine and take the matches. Talk to the Nubile Valkyries
about Sordid. Use the scissors to cut off the sleeping dwarf's
beard. Go into the room on the right and converse with the wizards
until they agree to tell you how to become a wizard. They tell you
must find and return with a magical staff. The staff is last known
to be in the possession of, the now deceased, Nafflin the
Necromancer.

 APOTHECARY

 Leave the tavern. Head left past the Shoppe, up to the Dodgy
Geezer. Get away from this guy as quickly as you can. You'll find
him useful later on. Go left to the Apothecary's. Pick up the ladder
outside the apothecary's cottage. Go inside and take the cold remedy
and specimen jar.

 WISE OWL

 Return to outside the Shoppe and go left into the woods. When you
reach the four way junction, take the first path on the left.
Continue along this path until you see the wise owl. Talk to the
owl. Pick up a hint or two. Take the feather from the left center of
the screen.

 WOODWORM

 Return to the four way junction and take the first path on the
right. Continue on this path until you see the tree stump. Talk to
the woodworm. They will ask you to find some mahogany for them.

 WITCH'S COTTAGE

 Take the path down and continue left to the Witch's Cottage. Turn
the handle of the well and haul up a bucket of water. Take the
bucket of water.

 BARBARIAN

 Return along the path and then go left to the four way junction.
Take the second path on the right and continue on this path until
you meet the Barbarian. Help the Barbarian and he will give you a
whistle.

 TROLL BRIDGE

 Return left to the four way junction. Take the lower right path and
walk past the Woodworm tree stump to the Troll Bridge. As soon as
the action stops talk to the troll so that he takes and uses your
whistle. The Barbarian comes and clears the bridge.

 OAF

 Walk across the Troll Bridge and continue along this path, taking
the upper right path at the junction, until you meet the Oaf. Talk
to the Oaf about his beans. Suggest they need watering. Pour the
bucket of water over the beans. You will leave. Return and pick the
beans up out of the puddle.

 BEHIND CALYPSO'S COTTAGE

 Return to the village and go to Calypso's cottage. Plant the beans
in the compost behind Calypso's cottage. Pick the water melon.

 SOUSAPHONE

 Return to the Troll Bridge and go to the upper left to the
sousaphone player. You will try to escape the noise but you also
want that sousaphone! Visit the sousaphone player again and throw
the melon into the sousaphone. The sousaphone player will hand the
instrument over to you for repair.

 PALEONTOLOGIST

 Return left to the five way junction, then take the upper right
path to the cordoned off hole. Talk to the paleontologist who is
inside the hole. He is looking for a fossil.

 GOBLIN'S FORTRESS

 Continue right along the path to the Center of the Forest. Take the
higher path, that starts on the left, to the Goblin Fortress. Look
for the shopping list under the stone. Take it.

 WOODCUTTER'S COTTAGE

 Return to the lower path and continue right to the Woodcutter's
Cottage. Talk to the woodcutter. He is miserable because he can't
cut down the magic trees. He needs a magic axe made from Milrith. He
will give you a metal detector.

 SWAMPLING

 Return to the Center of the Forest and take the upper right path.
Continue through the cave entrance and on into the swamp. Attempt to
open the door of the Swampling's residence and the Swampling will
invite you in. Talk to the Swampling. Accept the stew. Eat as much
Swamp stew as you can. Ugh! Fill the specimen jar with the stew when
you can. Keep eating the stew until the Swampling has to leave.
Leave and continue right to the mountains.

 SLEEPING GIANT

 Keep walking right through the mountains until you reach the
Sleeping Giant. (Why have all those people turned to stone?) Disturb
the sleeping giant by playing the sousaphone. This will make him
push the tree over so you can walk across the chasm.

 DRAGON'S CAVE

 Continue right to the Dragon's Cave. Visit the dragon. Blackened!
Click on Simon to recover. Go into the cave again. Give the cold
remedy to the Dragon. Go into the cave and take the fire
extinguisher. Leave and walk behind the cave. Pick up the rock with
the fossil.

 TALKING TREE

 Go right, and right again, at the climbing pins, continue right and
talk to the Talking Tree.

 MOUNTAINS

 Return to the Sleeping Giant then go left. Use the metal detector.

 SHOPPE

 Return to the village. Open the Shoppe door. Hand over the shopping
list to the shopkeeper.

 BLACKSMITH

 Visit the Blacksmith and give him the rock. You will leave with a
fossil.

 PALEONTOLOGIST

 Return to the Center of the Forest and go left to the
Paleontologist. Give the fossil to the Paleontologist and tell him
you found it in the mountains (where you actually detected the
milrith!)

 MOUNTAINS

 Return to the Sleeping Giant and go left. Search the dirt and rocks
and pick up the milrith ore.

 BLACKSMITH

 Return to the village and visit the Blacksmith. Give the milrith to
the Blacksmith and he will make you an axe head. Pick up the bell
clapper from the bench. Also take the rope and attach it to the
magnet.

 WOODCUTTER'S COTTAGE

 Return to the Center of the Forest and go right to the Woodcutter's
cottage. Hand the axe head over to the woodcutter and he will leave.
Go into his cottage. Pick up the climbing pin on the left-hand side.
Put out the fire in the fireplace with the fire extinguisher. Move
the hook over the fireplace and you will go down to the basement.
Take the mahogany.

 WOODWORM

 Go to the Troll Bridge and take the lower left path to the tree
stump where the woodworm reside. Talk to the woodworm. The woodworm
become part of your inventory.

 TOWER

 Go to the Cross Roads. Take the lower right path to the tower. Put
the bell clapper in the bell and sound the bell. Climb the long
braid of hair. Talk to the girl behind the screen and kiss her.
Well, she did say "when she was a piglet"! The pig 'Repulser'
becomes part of your inventory. Use the woodworm on the floorboards.
Go down through the holes to the basement, using the ladder on the
second hole.

 Open the tomb. Could this be Nafflin the Necromancer with the magic
staff? You will be forced to leave, but you can now return here
through the ground floor doorway. Go in and go back down to the
tomb, open it again. Do not look at the mummy but pick up the
stringy bandage at his back. The mummy will unwind and be destroyed.
Take the staff.

 GOLUM

 Return to the Cross Roads and take the path up, on the right, to
the waterfall. Climb down the vines at the lower left of the screen.
Talk to the Golum. He will tell you he needs food for a party. Give
the Swamp stew to the Golum fisherman. You will sit down to fish and
eventually find the ring of invisibility.

 BEEHIVE COTTAGE

 Return to the village. Go to the path outside the Apothecary and go
left to the Beehive Cottage. Have Repulser, the pig, eat the
Chocolate truffle door. Go into the cottage. Take the smokebox and
beekeeper's hat. Go outside. Use the smokebox on the beehive. Pick
up the wax.

 TAVERN

 Go to the tavern and ask the barman to fix you a drink. While he is
preoccupied put the wax on the nozzle of the barrel behind the bar.
The barman will think this barrel is empty and leave it for you
outside. He will also give you a free beer voucher.

 Pick up the barrel of beer when you leave.

 DWARVES MINE.

 Return to the Center of the Forest. Look at the rock at the mine
entrance. Pick it up and look at the rock again. It says "beer".
This is the password to get into the mine. Put on the beard. Go into
the mine. Try to go to the left. Bribe the guard with the barrel of
beer. Return up the steps and go to the left. Talk to the dwarves.
Find out how to get into the treasury (through the golden door on
the upper left). Take the hook. Return to the steps to the right and
go down to the beer room. Use the feather on the sleeping guard to
make him turn over. Take the key.

 Return to the treasury door and open it with the key. Talk to the
dwarf. Bribe him with the beer voucher. He will give you a gem.

 DODGY GEEZER

 Return to the village and visit the Dodgy Geezer. Drive a hard
bargain and sell the gem to him for 20 gold coins.

 SHOPPE

 Return to the Shoppe. Buy the hammer and white spirit. Leave.
Outside the shop, open the box and get in.

 GOBLIN'S FORTRESS

 Open the box you are hiding in. Look at the boxes. Pick up the
spellbook. Look at the spellbook and you will find a loose piece of
paper. Pick up the rat bone. Put the piece of paper under the door.
Use the rat bone on the lock. Pick up the piece of paper. Use the
key to unlock the door. Open the door and leave.

 Pick up the bucket and go down the stairs. Talk to the Druid.
Remove the ring. Talk to the Druid again until he tells you he needs
to see a full moon. Put the bucket over the druids head. Pick up the
mints. Pick up the flaming brand and hold it over the Druid's head.
The Druid escapes as a frog.

 When you hear Goblin guards approaching, open the iron maiden and
hide in it. The frog will return with a hacksaw. Open the iron
maiden. Take the hacksaw and use it on the bars. Leave.

DRAGON'S CAVE

 Return to the Dragon's Cave and use the hook to climb up to the
boulder above the cave entrance. Use the rope and magnet on the hole
(this is the skylight in the Dragon's Cave) and you will collect
some gold coins. Repeat this three times until the magnet comes up
empty.

TALKING TREE

 Climb down and return to the Talking Tree. Clean up the pink
splotch with the white spirit. Talk to the tree. The tree will tell
you four magic words.

 TAVERN

 Return to the village. Visit the wizards in the tavern. Talk to
them. Hand over the staff and pay the fee to become a wizard. Ask
the wizards about Sordid.

 APOTHECARY

 Visit the Apothecary. The Druid is at home and he wants you to find
him some Frogsbane.

 SKULL ISLAND

 Go to the Center of the Forest. Return the Swampling's hut. (Thank
goodness the Swampling's not back yet!) Move the box and open the
trap door. Go through the trap door and walk along the planks. Fix
the loose plank with the hammer and nail. Continue right to Skull
Island. Pick the Frogsbane.

 APOTHECARY

 Return to the village and visit the Apothecary. Hand over the
Frogsbane and you will receive a mysterious potion labeled "Drink
Me".

 WITCH'S COTTAGE

 Go to the witch's cottage. Open the door and go in. Try to take her
broom. You will get chucked out but enter the cottage again. The
witch will offer to play a game with you. Accept.

 Use the magic word "Sausages" repeatedly until you win the game.
You may not win the first game, but keep returning to the cottage
and playing the game until you do. The witch will then cheat and
become a dragon. Escape by saying "Abracadabra" and becoming a
mouse. Run away through the mouse-hole near the rocking chair. You
now have the broom.

 CLIMBING PINS

 Return to the Dragon's Cave and go to the climbing pins. There is
one missing but you have one in your inventory. Put the spare
climbing pin in the hole. Walk across the climbing pins.

 SNOWMAN

 Eat the mints and the snowman will melt.

 SORDID'S TOWER

 OUTSIDE

 Continue right to Sordid's Tower. Use the witch's broom to get
across the chasm. Consume the "Drink Me" potion. You will walk
through a crack in the door. Your dog will grab you and put you in
the garden.

 Pick up the leaf. Pick up the stone. Look in the bucket and take
the matchstick. Go left to the puddle. Pick up the lily-pad. Put the
matchstick on the lily-pad and the leaf on the match to make a
sailing boat. Sail over to the seeds. Take a seed. Return to shore.
Crush the seed with the stone. Attach the dog hair to the tap. Use
the seed oil on the tap and turn on the water by pulling the dog
hair.

 Use your makeshift sailing boat to get to the other side of the
puddle. On leaving the boat you are nearly swallowed by a frog! Look
at the water and pick up the tadpole. Threaten the frog and that you
will harm the tadpole unless the frog gets out of your way. When the
frog leaves look at the mushrooms. Pick the mushroom labeled "Eat
Me" and eat it.

 GROUND-FLOOR AND BASEMENT

 Open the door and go inside. Terrified, you run outside. Pick up
the branch. Go inside again and put the branch in the snapping
chest's mouth. Pick up the shield and the spear.

 Go downstairs to the torture chamber. Pick up the chest. Move the
lever to open the press. Put the chest on the block and move the
lever so the chest is crushed. Move the lever again to raise the
press. Pick up the candles. Use the spear to fetch down the skull
hanging from the ceiling on the left. Pick up the skull.

 BEDROOM AND LABORATORY

 Go upstairs, then upstairs again, to the bedroom. Pick up the sock,
the pouch and the magic wand. Pick up and read the book. Now you
know what to do with Sordid's wand. Talk to the mirror. Put the sock
in the pouch. Put the pouch in the mouse-hole at the foot of the
stairs. You will catch the mouse.

 Go upstairs and talk to the demons. Keep talking until they tell
you they want to return to the pit. Pick up the book and read it.
You now know how to return these demons to their home. Talk to the
demons some more and find out more information if you can. Pick up
the chemical, the magical metal polish, and use it to polish the
shield. Place the shield on the hook.

 Go downstairs to the bedroom. Talk to the mirror and ask to see the
lab. You will hear the demon's true names.

 Go upstairs and keep talking to the demons until they give you the
chalk so you can start the ritual to send them back. When you have
completed the ritual, get into the teleporter, select the Fiery Pits
of Rondor as your destination.

THE FIERY PITS OF RONDOR

 Pick up the sapling and the pebble. Talk to the attendant. He will
give you some brochures. Look at the brochures and then use the
elastic band on the sapling. Use the catapult on the fire alarm.
Pick up the souvenir matches from the counter.

 Go right, across the bridge and pick up the floor wax. Go right to
Sordid. Use the wand on Sordid to turn _him_ to stone. Now light the
pits with the matches. Throw the wand into the lava. Uh-oh! Sordid
tries to kill you. Return to the lava pits and deal with Sordid.
How? Use the floor wax so that he loses his footing...and falls into
the lava!

 Congratulations! Enjoy the closing sequences!

 This walkthrough is copyright (c) 1994 by Diana Griffiths and the
Gamers Forum Adventure Library. All rights reserved.