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 CAPTAIN BLOOD Walkthru

 PRELIMINARIES

 The most important tool you have to explore the complex geopolitical
terrain of Hydra is UPCOM: the Universal Protocol of Communication.
Translating UPCOM icons to English is a snap: All you have to do is drag
your computer finger over them. But the icon dictionary in the CAPTAIN
BLOOD manual lists the icons in the order they appear on the UPCOM module.
So, when you're trying to form your own sentences, finding the correct word
among those hundred and twenty little pictures can be frustrating.

 My suggestion: Photocopy the manual pages with the icons. Then, starting
with the first (the question mark) and moving down the columns, number each
icon ("you" is 6, "howdy" 7, etc.) until you reach the end. Finally, cut
the icons (with their translations and numbers) apart, tape them in
alphabetical order on larger sheets of paper, and stick them on the wall
next to your computer.

 Now, when you need the icon for "different," for example, you can find it
quickly on your alphabetized sheets and, checking the number next to it
(60), know that that icon will appear on the UPCOM module about halfway
down the line (60/120). Sounds a little kludgey, but after you've wrestled
with UPCOM for a while, I think you'll see the utility of it.

 I also advise studying the "Tips and Hints" section of the BLOOD reference
booklet and making a flow chart showing who can lead you to whom. (The
chart I did, BLOOD.PCX, is available in the CompuServe Gamers' Forum.) This
will help you avoid useless chitchat with vapor-headed aliens. (Studying my
chart, for example, you can infer that Tromps are only going to giggle and
say the word "sex," no matter how silver-tongued you are with them.)

 As you may know, all coordinates in CAPTAIN BLOOD are randomized every time
you begin a game, so you won't find any here. I will try to show you how to
get to the guys who can give you the coordinates. The first planet in any
given game is always going to be inhabited, but the chances of finding
another inhabited planet on your own are about one in five hundred. That
being the case, the only logical thing to do is get down there on that
first planet, and strike up a conversation!

 The OORXX -- an acronym, presumably -- can withstand seven crashes. So, you
don't have to be especially timid while learning to fly it. Remember, too,
that if a missile is closing in on you, sometimes the best wisdom is to
crash on purpose, hug the ground until the missile recedes, then take off
again like the proverbial shot.

 Write down all planet names, coordinates, and inhabitants, including the
first (you may have to come back). This is _very_ important!

 IZWAL, BUGGOL, CROOLIS-ULV

 The first alien you encounter will always be one of four: Yoko (an Izwal),
a friendly little guy with yellow-brown skin and a long tongue; Dead
Genetic (a Croolis-Ulv), a big purple humanoid with a bad attitude; Pop
Unknown (a Buggol), a centipede type who looks like he's going to jump out
and grab your nose; or Great Bounty (a Migrax), with a head like the
creature in ALIEN except it's silver (he's also a lot friendlier once you
get to know him). Where you go from here depends on which of these fellows
you have to deal with first. So, I'll outline the four separate beginnings,
then we'll meet up for the middle game.

 YOKO START

 Identify yourself and tell Yoko you're his friend ("Me Blood me friend" --
the BLOOD manuals have several good syntactical hints for speaking with
aliens). By following up on the allusions Yoko makes to various peoples and
places, you'll discover that the planet you're on is called Bow-Bow; that
the Izwal are a peace-loving folk; that Yoko is looking for a girl friend;
that the Ondoyante are apparently the foxes of choice in this particular
galaxy; that there is a connection between Yoko's father (Maxon) and the
Croolis-Ulv (Dead Genetic), since Maxon (a renowned scientist) helped Dead
Genetic achieve genetic reproduction.

 The ability -- or lack of it -- to perpetuate one's species is a major
concern of the inhabitants of Hydra, and it motivates many of their actions
(unlike us). The plot thickens as you learn that Maxon is missing and Yoko
wants you to find him; and it positively congeals as the little guy warns
you that the duplicates themselves are seeking a means of reproduction.

 As you know, you have to track down and disintegrate all five currently
existing Blood duplicates before you're out of danger. But if they should
start to multiply before you can get to them....

 TELEPORTING YOKO

 Ask Yoko about Pop Unknown (the Buggol), and get the coordinates for his
planet. Get the info for Dead Genetic's planet, if you haven't already.
"You say planet Dead Genetic." Keep repeating things if you don't get the
right response; timing's really important with these critters. Then, and
only then, teleport Yoko to another, uninhabited planet.

 Make sure you understand the difference between teleportation and
disintegration. You only want to disintegrate the duplicates by pressing
the circle-arrow icon below the fridgitorium when you've got one of them
trapped there. To teleport an alien from the fridgitorium to a new planet,
you first have to successfully land an OORXX, and then press the teleport
(T-arrow) icon to the left of the UPCOM module. What? You teleported Yoko
and he died? You watched that cute little guy waste away right before your
eyes and didn't lift a finger to help? Nice going, ace; you're off to a
great start!

 CROOLIS-VAR PLANETS

 Proceed to Dead Genetic's planet, Trap 4. The Croolis-Ulv and Croolis-Var
are basically a bunch of lizard-brained geeks with chips on their shoulders,
but you have to deal with them. Tell Mr. Genetic (who's a Croolis-Ulv,
remember) that you want to destroy the Croolis-Var; tell him he's a great
warrior; tell him you think he's cute. It doesn't really matter what you
say, because he isn't going to give you the information you need until he's
good and ready (when he says "Me kill time," he's not kidding).

 Don't get discouraged; just keep pounding away with things you think he
wants to hear (ask him to give you information; tell him you know Maxon;
rant and rave about how much you want to kill his enemies). Eventually
he'll get tired of horsing around and give you the coordinates to four
Croolis-Var planets: Trap 2, home of Good Nonsense; Great Fear, home of
Male Warrior; Kill You, home of Bad Crazy; and Trap 1, home of Poor Genetic
(a distant relative, presumably).

 Dead wants you to kill them. If you do, and come back looking for your big
reward, he'll tell you he wants to "reproduce" with you: Trust me, you
don't have to kill anybody. After he gives you the coordinates, he'll kick
you off his planet; you'll be only too happy to leave.

 POP UNKNOWN'S PLANET

 Now, use the other coordinates Yoko gave you and hit Pop Unknown's planet,
Spirit 137. There's a chance Yoko may have given you another Buggol planet,
Rosko 2, home of Good Unknown. If this is the case, this section is
optional.

 The Buggol like to whine about their sex lives; humor them. Then, ask Pop
Unknown about Morlock and say you want to vote for him. He'll give you the
coordinates to Rosko 1, Morlock's planet. Check the Buggol section of the
BLOOD manual for some background on the political scene. Then go to Rosko 1
and let Morlock try out his campaign speech on you. He fancies himself the
peace candidate, though he'll later ask you to kill the incumbent president,
an upstart Yukas named Rosko (not to be confused with the Buggol planets
Rosko 1 and Rosko 2).

 Vote for Morlock ("Me vote Morlock") and he'll give you (after some
additional jabber) the coordinates for Female 021, Rosko the Yukas's planet.
Touch down on Female 021 for a look at Rosko (he's an eyeful), but don't
expect any real information there: Rosko and Morlock aren't interested in
much except wiping each other off the face of the galaxy. Finally, head
back to Spirit 137. Pop Unknown should now be forthcoming with the
coordinates for Good Unknown on Rosko 2.

 GOOD UNKNOWN'S PLANET

 Good Unknown will prove to be one of your most valuable allies. After you
listen to his woman troubles, he'll beg you to take him away from all this.
Ask him for the Izwal code, then teleport him to any uninhabited planet
(don't forget to jot down the coordinates). If he likes it there, he'll
give you a new, unidentified set of coordinates, and send you back to your
ship. Return to him immediately using the OORXX reactivator button (the
question mark below the OORXX) and say "Me want know planet Migrax Great
Bounty." After he gives you those coordinates, proceed to the "Great Bounty
Start" section below.

 DEAD GENETIC START

 Review the "Croolis-Var Planets" section above. The only real difference if
Dead Genetic is your first encounter is that you have to work fast and
learn Yoko's coordinates before he gets generous and starts dispensing the
Croolis-Var info. Once he's done that, he'll boot you off Trap 4 and not
let you back on again until you've vaporized the Croolis-Var planets (which
you don't want to do).

 As soon as the old Deadhead lets you get a word in, bombard him with
sentences like "Me search Yoko" and "Me want know home small Yoko."
Eventually he'll admit he knows him, acknowledge his debt to Maxon, and
give you the coordinates to Bow-Bow, Yoko's planet. Then, go into the "Me
want kill enemies" routine outlined above until he comes across with the
Croolis-Var coordinates as well. But get Yoko's location first! Now, visit
Yoko, following the instructions detailed in "Yoko Start" and "Teleporting
Yoko." After you've lost the little guy, continue with the instructions in
"Pop Unknown's Planet" and "Good Unknown's Planet." Then, proceed to the
"Great Bounty Start" section below.

 POP UNKNOWN START

 Begin with the "Pop Unknown's Planet" and "Good Unknown's Planet" sections
above. But after you get Great Bounty's coordinates, return once more to
Good Unknown and say, "Me want know planet Yoko." Proceed to Yoko's planet
and follow "Yoko Start," "Teleporting Yoko," and "Croolis-Var Planets."
Then, continue with the "Great Bounty Start" section below.

 GREAT BOUNTY START

 Review the Migrax description in the BLOOD manual. The Migrax are really
cool, though a bit irascible off the top. (The BLOOD game I finally
succeeded in solving started with Great Bounty, so I'm kind of partial to
these guys.)

 After he's had his little joke -- "Me say information Migrax Missile
Brave/Missile Brave kill you (laugh-curse)" -- ask him if he wants to be
teleported. The Migrax love to travel, so sooner or later he'll agree. When
you get him to another planet, prompt him with a question or two about the
Ondoyante, then follow up on everything he says. Be persistent. Don't be
too quick to take him back home, no matter how much he whines; you'll get
more out of him here.

 Some of what he'll say is a bit cryptic -- "Go planet equals free brain
spirit"; "Kill vote dead (sob-sob)" -- but when he finally mentions Planet
Spirit, reply with "You say information Planet Spirit," "Me want know
coordinates Planet Spirit," etc., and you should get some solid information.

 If you don't have them already, hit him with "You say planet Buggol," and
you'll get Good Unknown's coordinates. Finally, try, "You say planet
Missile Brave," and you should get the (very crucial) coordinates to
Reproduction 128 (once these Migrax start talking, you can't shut them up).

 At this point he may send you back to the ship, but if he does, go right
back down again by pressing the OORXX reactivator button, and you'll get a
second chance to take him home (he'll even give you the coordinates in case
you've misplaced them). Then, and only then, return Great Bounty to
Reproduction 14. He'll be so grateful he'll confide that the Antenna know
where to find the Robheads (file that bit away for now). Then, he'll
announce that he's got a hot date and kick you off his planet. If you set
down there again, he'll be gone.

 If you started the game with someone other than Great Bounty, proceed now
to Part II. If Great Bounty was your first, use the coordinates he gave you
to find the Buggol Good Unknown. Good Unknown is a veritable gold mine of
information. After he tells you his problems, he'll beg you to take him on
a vacation. Ask him for the Izwal code, then teleport him to any
uninhabited planet (don't forget to jot down the coordinates). If he likes
it there, he'll give you a new, unidentified set of coordinates, and send
you back to your ship.

 Return to him immediately using the OORXX reactivator and say "Me want know
planet Yoko." Go to Yoko's planet and refer to "Yoko Start," "Teleporting
Yoko," and "Croolis-Var Planets" to find out what to do next. The Pop
Unknown-Morlock-Rosko subplot ("Pop Unknown's Planet") is basically a dead
end, but do it for the fun of it if you have time. (If your arm is shaking
without remission, then you probably don't have time; see the time note in
the "Afterword" section of this walkthru.) Now, proceed to Part 2.

 TORKA, TUBE-BRAINS, NO NO

 By this time you should have accomplished the following tasks (not
necessarily in this order): visited Dead Genetic and Pop Unknown (and,
optionally, Morlock and Rosko the Yukas); taken Good Unknown to a planet he
likes and left him there; after questioning Yoko, taken him to a new planet
and inadvertently killed him; taken Great Bounty to a new planet,
interrogated him, returned him to Reproduction 14, and witnessed his
departure for planets unknown.

 As a result of the above hijinx, you should now be armed with the following
information: the coordinates to four Croolis-Var planets (Trap 1, Trap 2,
Great Fear, and Kill You); the coordinates for Good Unknown's new planet
(the one you took him to); the Izwal code "friend friend" (which is almost
the key to the city in this galaxy -- all sorts of people respond to it);
the unidentified set of coordinates Good Unknown gave you; the coordinates
for Planet Spirit; and the coordinates for the Migrax Missile Brave.

 If you're missing any of this stuff, or if you haven't done all of these
things, you're going to be in deep trouble later on. Go back and pick up
what you need; or, if your arm's gotten too palsied, make a game plan and
start the game over (see "Afterword"). If your checklist is complete and
you're in reasonably good health, pat yourself on the back, save the game,
and read on.

 Let's use that mysterious set of coordinates Good Unknown gave us (the
unidentified ones). When you touch down, you'll be face to face with your
first duplicate (Duplicate 2, actually). Disintegrate him now if your arm's
getting uncontrollable, but if it isn't, leave him in the fridgitorium
until you need him (why take aspirin before you've got a headache?).
Whatever you do, do _not_ teleport him out of the fridge once you've put
him in there; you'll never get him back.

 Now, jet over to Planet Spirit and meet Torka. No matter how you randomize
them, her coordinates are definitely 36-24-36. At present, however, she's
scared to death, and she's got enough sense to know this isn't the best
time for socializing. She'll give you the coordinates to Brain 4, home of
her friend Tubular-Brain, and then she'll split.

 Proceed to Brain 4 and try to strike up a conversation with the Tubester.
(If you get anything intelligible out of him, I'd sure like to know!)
Remember poor Yoko pleading with you to find his pop? Feeling a little
guilty about terminating the small dude? Let's see if we can write that
subplot a happier ending. Unfortunately, that means going back to the land
of the macho geeks.

 Pick any one of the Croolis-Var, just so long as it's Good Nonsense. Say
things like "You want information Croolis-Ulv?", "Me want give
information," and the ever-popular "Me want kill enemy." After the usual
posturing and so forth, he'll fork over the coordinates to Bad Trap, home
of the Croolis-Ulv, Howdy Prison.

 Head over to Bad Trap and let Mr. Prison jerk you around until he comes up
with the coordinates for Great Destroy, a Croolis-Var stoolie and info
salesman. Then, start drilling him (Howdy Prison) about Maxon. Try, "You
say identity planet Maxon." As usual, you may have to repeat it about ten
times. Make sure you get both the coordinates and the planet name. Finally,
go see the Croolis-Var Poor Genetic and feed him the usual line of guff.
Eventually, he'll admit he knows an Izwal named No No who lives on Idea 347.
Get the coordinates, touch down on Idea 347, and you'll discover....

 Yoko! The little guy faked his own death! Hard to decide whether to hug him
or kick him, isn't it? Anyway, he's glad to see you, and he's very anxious
about his dad. When he asks, tell him "Identity planet Maxon equals
Rendezvous 67." He'll reward you with the coordinates for Duplicate 1.

 Duplicate 1 is a whole other can of worms. Whereas Duplicate 2 just kind of
whined impotently until you fridged him, Duplicate 1 wants to make deals,
promising to rat on Duplicate buddies 2, 3, and 4 if you let him go. If
that makes you suspicious, good going: You and I both know that Duplicate
2's already strumming harps. But play along. Write down the coordinates in
the order he gives them to you. If that fourth set he throws in makes you
even more suspicious, better going still: It's the planet you're standing
on. Micro the little weasel.

 TRAUMA, GOOD MIND, KINGPAK

 Review what the manual says about the Ondoyante. Then, take a deep breath
and set your galaxy map for the first set of coordinates Duplicate 1 gave
you. This is Trauma, and she's nobody's sweetheart. After she finishes
dressing you down, she says something about a rendezvous with a great male,
reels off some coordinates, and sends you back to your ship. Go back down
to her and offer her a lift. Take her to the coordinates she mentioned, and
all of a sudden she doesn't look so bad. Looks aren't everything though,
are they? Lose her. (To give her some credit she may volunteer the
coordinates for No No; but, then, you already have them, don't you?)

 Go far back in your records, now, and find the coordinates Great Bounty
gave you for his fellow Migrax Missile Brave. He'll welcome you with open
arms because of your civilized treatment of his friend, and give (without
much coaxing) both the Sinox code and the coordinates for Good Mind. When
he asks you to leave, be a gracious guest and beat it; don't pester him any
further right now.

 Proceed to 128, Good Mind's planet, and give him the Sinox code "impossible
not Sinox" to loosen him up. The Sinox can be a bit stuffy, but they're
basically all right (at least we're dealing with the higher intelligences
now). Good Mind, however, has a problem, and he's not above asking you for
help. It seems he needs four members of the Antenna race moved so he can
annex their planets ("Planet help me know radioactivity spirit": These guys
are into some weird stuff).

 You may be tempted to say, "Look pal, I've got my own problems," but hold
on a microsec. Didn't Great Bounty say something about the Antenna knowing
how to get to the Robheads? The BLOOD manual would have you believe that
the Robheads are harmless, but if you check the hints in the reference
booklet, it'll tell you they're "the real masters of Hydra." I guess you'll
be wanting to take that assignment after all.

 So, get the coordinates to the four Kristo planets from Good Mind, then
head on out. Antenna 1 on Kristo 15 will waffle when it comes to
teleporting, so wait until he's in the mood, then grab him fast. Other than
that, it's pretty routine stuff. (Yes, you do have to move all four of the
Antenna to uninhabited planets, and be nice about it.) The real reason
you're here is to ask them the following: "You know planet Robhead?" Each
Antenna will give you a different set of coordinates. Write them down and
guard them with your life.

 And remember, they're important, these coordinates; you're glad you got
them. It's imperative you remember that they're important, because the
return to Good Mind is going to be pretty much of a letdown. Even though he
promised you a Duplicate, all he's got now (besides a mouthful of "Much
obliged") is No No's address, which everybody and his brother seems willing
to give out. (By the way, don't be tempted to get into any kind of
teleportation scene with Good Mind; he'll run you ragged, and you won't get
a thing for your trouble.) But then again, with all those folks pointing us
back toward No No, maybe we should pay our little friend another visit.