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                                CIRCUIT'S EDGE
                                    Part 1

                                INTRODUCTION

CIRCUIT'S EDGE is a graphic adventure whose story is set (roughly) in 2702
A.D., in a city called Budayeen, somewhere in the Islamic world. You are
Marid Audran,a private detective.Budayeen is a seedy place full of unsavory
characters,and you're not exactly pure as new-driven snow either. Drug use,
sex,and drinking are favorite pastimes,and some inhabitants are really into
inserting chips in themselves to acquire various skills and personalities.
(Players of NEUROMANCER may detect some similarities here.)And you, being a
carefree, try-anything-once kind of guy, are into everything!


This game is in real time ,the game clock keeps ticking away even if you're
just staring at the screen. Be sure to pause the game when you have to
leave for a short time.Certain game elements are sensitive to game time and
must be accomplished without breaks. These will be so indicated as you go.
Saving the game is only allowed when you are in your own apartment;there is
only one save-game slot.When you are on a time-limited task, don't waste
time by returning to your apartment to save the game.

All commands for the game are chosen from menu bars at the top of the
screen. Although this type of interface is common to a variety of games,
there are some unusual features unique to this game. These features will
be pointed out at the appropriate spots in the walkthru.

You need the street map (north is at the top of the page) and the business
directory in the manual to travel. There is a small map window in the lower
right corner of the screen showing your immediate surroundings, to help you
orient yourself while traveling. Movement is done by using the arrow keys
or by clicking either on the main screen or on the small map window
(I prefered using the arrow keys).

In the walkthru, commands that you select from the menus are in capital
letters. From time to time, you will need to TALK to someone ABOUT certain
things. These are noted in capital letters and quotation marks.

While in the game, punks randomly ambush you on city streets. Early in this
walkthru,we'll equip you with the KUNG-FU MASTER chip; this should make you
almost invincible to these punks. After each fight, get all the money and a
stiletto or switchblade (if you don't already have one); leave other things
behind.If you find your life meter bar has fallen to less than half, go to
the Medical Clinic, and TALK to the NURSE to BUY NUCLEAR HEALING. Because of
their random natures, fights and healing are not included in the walkthru.

YOUR APARTMENT

Read the description to find out what a dump you live in! Select GAME and
TURN BRIEF MODE ON:Now the game will only give you a description of an area
when you first enter it. This helps save a lot of time and unnecessary
scrolling. Select ACTION, then CHIP-IN your BIO-SCANNER. Let's take a look
at your vital signs.
Good,you're in fine health.Better leave that chip in all the time so we can
monitor your health continuously. Hang around here and wait till....

Hey, your belt phone is ringing! TALK. It's your friend Saird. He wants
you to go to Cafe De La Fee Blanche to pick up a package from Fuad.
(Remember his new commcode.) EXIT.

To help you get your bearings,you're outside the Five Pillars Apartments on
North 12th Street, facing west. Turn left and go to the large intersection.
Turn left and go east three blocks. Turn left again and go down North 9th
Street.The cafe is on your left. From now on, follow the map in your manual
to travel. TALK to GARGOTIER ABOUT "FUAD." Hm, that rascal probably went to
Chiriga's. EXIT and go there. TALK to FUAD ABOUT "PACKAGE." Now, type
INVENTORY. USE BELT PHONE. Dial Saird's new commcode: 131AEP69. He wants
you to meet him at Frenchy's Nightclub. EXIT and go there.

TALK to SAIRD. INVENTORY. GIVE Saird the COLOGNE PACKAGE. (Note: The GIVE
option is only available when you take an object from INVENTORY while
TALKing to someone.) Saird is ecstatic over the cologne. He gives you a new
chip to play  with. ACTION. CHIP-IN CHRONO-2000. Ah, now you can tell time.
INVENTORY. DROP your WRIST WATCH (you don't need that old watch anymore).
Hang around here and absorb the atmosphere. Hey, there goes your phone
again! TALK. Someone wants you to go to Bougainvillea Apartments to pick up
a note book. EXIT and go there.

After you get a description of the lobby, another LOOK will take you to
Carter's room. Someone knocks you over the head and everything turns to
black. When you wake up, you learn that Carter has been murdered. Note the
writing on the wall. ACTION. GET the HOLODISK or the ANSWERING MACHINE.Now,
you get arrested by the police. Luckily, your influential uncle Friedlander
Bey (nicknamed Papa) talks Sgt. Hajjar into releasing you. Papa is waiting
to see you in his home. EXIT and go to the east corner of South 1st and The
Streets.

There is a bank machine here. INVENTORY. USE your BANK DISK. Type in your
bankcode (found in the manual) and withdraw all your money (628 Kiams).
INVENTORY. DROP your BANK DISK and go to Laila's Mod Shop.

TALK to LAILA. BUY KUNG-FU MASTER chip. ACTION. CHIP-IN KUNG-FU MASTER. Now
you're ready for any punks that may show up. EXIT and go to Friedlander
Bey's home.

To get here, exit Budayeen by going through the East Gate at the eastern
end of The Street.TALK to BILL (the taxi driver) and tell him: I WANT TO GO
TO FRIEDLANDER BEY.

EXIT and TALK to PAPA. He tells you he wants you to find the murderer of
Kenji Carter and recover the notebook. Great; now you have a purpose in
life! EXIT and go to the Police Station.

 TALK to BILL to take you to the Police Station. TALK to SGT. HAJJAR ABOUT
"KENJI." If he ignores you, keep trying until he responds. He gives you the
answering chip from Kenji's answering machine. TALK to him ABOUT "MORGUE." He
gives you a morgue pass so you can look at Kenji's effects. ACTION. Notice
that there is a new option only available here: "U."

 To get to the Morgue, TALK to BILL to take you to BUDAYEEN. When you exit
the taxi, you will find yourself just inside East Gate facing west. Go to
the morgue & TALK to the ATTENDANT. Select INVENTORY & SHOW him the MORGUE
PASS. ACTION. SEE EFFECTS. ACTION. GET ITEMS:HOLODISK & LEATHER WALLET.
INVENTORY. LOOK AT WALLET. There is a tag from Mustafa's Pawn Shop.
EXIT and go there.

 What's going on? The Pawn Shop is out of business. May be you can find out
something at The Leather Goddesses. Go there & TALK to MADAME ABOUT
"MUSTAFA." So the merchandise has been bought out by another merchant.
EXIT and go to Friendly's Pawn Shop.

 TALK to FRIENDLY. INVENTORY. SHOW him MUSTAFA'S TAG. INVENTORY. GIVE him 20
KIAMS. He gives you half a brass ring. INVENTORY. LOOK AT HALF A BRASS RING.
Notice the inscription on the ring. While you are here, BUY an ANSWERING
MACHINE from him. EXIT. INVENTORY. DROP MUSTAFA'S TAG. USE the ANSWERING
MACHINE. To understand the full message, you will need Laila's language chip
and more Kiams to buy it. Maybe Papa can help with the Kiams. INVENTORY. USE
BELT PHONE. Dial Papa's commcode which is listed in the manual. Well, hope he gets the message.
Now, return to Laila's Mod Shop, and TALK to LAILA about "ORIENTAL." Now,
TALK to LAILA about "JAPANESE." You learn she sold the language chip to a
jewelry dealer. Go to the Jewels of Morocco and TALK to JEWELER about
"JAPANESE." It looks like you will need to solve the burglary of the star
sapphire to get the language chip. Better go find out something more about
the serpent tattoos.
EXIT.

 Papa got your message! He sent his two body guards to deliver 600 Kiams to
you. Go to Franco's Tattoo Parlor and TALK to FRANCO about "SERPENT." You
learn there are two suspects: Marco and Manny. Marco works in one of the
shops and sold him a holoviewer. (Manny works for sharks?)

 It's been a long night. Return to your apartment and SLEEP until around
6:00 p.m. You may save the game here if you like.


 CIRCUIT'S EDGE
     Part 2

 BACK ON THE STREETS

 It's around 6:00 p.m., & you just woke up. You're feeling a little hungry,
too. So EXIT, & go to the Cafe Solace. TALK to OLD IBRAHIM and BUY any meal
from him until you are grossly full. Now you are ready to continue tracking
down the burglary suspects. EXIT. Let's see, Manny works for sharks...Loan
Sharks! Go to AAA Secured Loans and TALK to GUIDO about "MANNY." He gives
you a matchbook.
INVENTORY. LOOK AT MATCHBOOK. The initials are "S.P." Could it stand for The
Silver Palm Nightclub? Yes! INVENTORY. DROP MATCHBOOK. EXIT and go to
The Silver Palm.

 TALK to HEIDI about "MANNY." Hm, a subtle clue: He has unnaturally blue
eyes. EXIT and go to The Eyes Of Texas. TALK to SHOPKEEPER about "MANNY."
Manny might have been involved in a card-counting scheme. Oh, I know just
the place! EXIT and go to The Gambling Den. (Note: It's on South 4th Street,
not 5th.)

 TALK to KARIM about "MANNY." He tells you Manny shacks up with some dancer
who has red hair and green eyes. Gee, this guy sure gets around. Go to the
Red Light Lounge and TALK to FANYA about "MANNY." Finally! This guy lives at
the Ad Dur House. (Note: To find Fanya, I traveled to all the different bars
and nightclubs, talked to all the dancers, and read all their descriptions,
in case you are wondering.) EXIT and go to The Ad Dur House (at the end of
South 9th Street).


 After reading the lobby's description, LOOK takes you to just outside
Manny's room, but it's locked. TALK to LANDLORD. INVENTORY. GIVE him 100
Kiams to get him to open the door. LOOK. ACTION. GET CRUMPLED NOTE.
INVENTORY. LOOK AT CRUMPLED NOTE. Manny is supposed to meet someone named
Tamara at the warehouse on South 1st Street. INVENTORY. DROP CRUMPLED NOTE.
EXIT.

 (If you have a stiletto or switchblade from a punk, skip this part and go
directly to the warehouse.)

 CRAZY ABDUL'S

 TALK TO ABDUL, BUY a switchblade, EXIT, then go to the Warehouse on South
1st Street. LOOK. INVENTORY. USE STILETTO or SWITCHBLADE to cut the rope
that's tied around the crate. So, Manny has been murdered, too. At least you
found the second half of the brass ring in his mouth; this wasn't a totally
wasted trip. INVENTORY. LOOK AT the second HALF OF BRASS RING. Note the
inscription. Putting both inscriptions together, you get: "Shimaal Mosque,
1 AM." Sounds like a rendezvous. INVENTORY. DROP both HALVES OF BRASS RING,
EXIT, and go to the Shimaal Mosque. It can only be reached by taxi. To be
safe, you should be in Bill's Taxi no later than 12:40 a.m. Follow the
sequence below, but keep an eye on the time. Skip over to Shimaal Mosque,
if necessary, then resume the sequence afterwards,

 ELECTRONIQUES

Well, Manny is a dead end (pun intended). So, we will try to follow up on
Marco, the other suspect. He sold holosystems;therefore, the electronic shop
is a logical place to visit. TALK to SAMPSON about "MARCO." All you get is
his full name: Marco Herrera. Maybe the police computer can help if you can
just get to use it. EXIT and go to Shoukri's Adult Video Holos.

You still have the holodisk to contend with, but you haven't found a machine
on which to view it. Answer YES when asked if you want to check out the
latest adult holographic film disk. Answer YES again to slide in the
holodisk you obtained from the morgue. There's a girl on that holodisk who
might just be Kenji's daughter; she hinted that she was going to have
cosmetic surgery. EXIT and go to Franco's Tattoo Parlor.

 TALK to STREET DEALER. BUY POLICE BADGE.This may just fool those cops into
letting you use their computer. (Note: The Street Dealer only appears in
Franco's shop after 10:00 p.m.) A hint that he has a badge to sell is
mentioned in a conversation you overhear in either Chiriga's or The Silver
Palm. Unfortunately, this conversation seems to appear in random clubs. EXIT
and return to Laila's Mod Shop.

 Now that you are rolling in Kiams, let's stock up in chips. TALK to LAILA
and BUY the following chips:RAD HACKER, ALPINE JACK, SUPER SPY, and PHANTOM.
EXIT and get back in the taxi.

 TALK to BILL to take you to POLICE STATION. EXIT. ACTION. USE COMPUTER. The
badge worked! Let's see what it has on "KENJI CARTER." So, he did have a
daughter named Tamara. Things are clearer now. Next, look up "TAMARA CARTER"
to  get an address: The Red Dune Apartment. Okay, now we will try "MARCO
HERRERA."
Not much luck here, but he does have a brother, Alejandro Herrera: Try that
one. Suddenly, a cop notices you're an impostor and kicks you out! But at
least you noticed the commcode for remote access to the computer: Maybe a
remote link-up is possible. EXIT and go back to the Shimaal Mosque.

 All you have to do here is wait till 1:00 a.m. Someone sneaks out from the
shadows and gives you the code to the police computer. EXIT, TALK to BILL to
take you back to BUDAYEEN, then return to Electroniques. TALK to SAMPSON to
BUY DATA LINK TERMINAL. EXIT and go to Friendly's Pawn Shop.

 TALK to FRIENDLY to BUY UPLINK CABLES. ACTION. CHIP-OUT KUNG-FU MASTER.
CHIP-IN RAD HACKER. INVENTORY. USE DATA LINK TERMINAL. Dial the remote
commcode for the police computer: 054AJR86. Enter the logon code: "GRAVITY."
Now, let's try "ALEJANDRO HERRERA" again. Bingo! He lives in The Medinah
Apartments. Push the RETURN or ENTER key to disconnect from the police
computer. ACTION. CHIP-OUT RAD HACKER. CHIP-IN KUNG-FU MASTER. EXIT and go
to The Medinah Apartments.

 After the description of the lobby, LOOK will take you to just outside the
Herreras' room, but it's locked. ACTION. CHIP-OUT KUNG-FU MASTER. CHIP-IN
SUPER SPY. INVENTORY. Select CHIP RACK. USE the CHIP SKILL of SUPER SPY. The
lock was no match for Super Spy: You are in! Read the description: Marco is
dead, too. LOOK again until you find the bullet and the star sapphire.
ACTION. GET BULLET. GET STAR SAPPHIRE. CHIP-OUT SUPER SPY. CHIP-IN KUNG-FU
MASTER. EXIT and go back to the Jewels of Morocco Jewelry Shop.

 TALK to JEWELER. INVENTORY. GIVE him STAR SAPPHIRE. He is grateful and
gives you 300 Kiams as well as the Japan-easy chip. ACTION. CHIP-IN
JAPAN-EASY. INVENTORY. USE ANSWERING MACHINE. You finally get to understand
the whole message. Tamara, Kenji's daughter, has the notebook; unless you
are good, she will turn up as another victim. INVENTORY. DROP ANSWERING
MACHINE and ANSWERING CHIP. EXIT and go to the Medical Clinic.

 You are here to follow up on the lead that Tamara may have had cosmetic
surgery. TALK to NURSE about "TAMARA." She needs to see Tamara's picture,but
you do not have a portable holoviewer to play your disk for her. EXIT and go
home.

 You have had another long night. Time to get some rest. Save the game, and
SLEEP. Darn that belt phone: It's ringing again. TALK.Why would Mahmoud call
you at 6:00 a.m. and ask you to come to Hassan right away? Get up and go to
Hassan's Tourist Paradise.

 TALK to Mahmoud about "HASSAN." Hassan has been kidnaped! INVENTORY.LOOK AT
RANSOM NOTE. You only have till 12:00 a.m.tomorrow night to find him.Did you
notice the floral scent on the note? Let's get cracking. EXIT and go to The
Scarlet Orchid.

 TALK to SHOPKEEPER. INVENTORY. SHOW RANSOM NOTE. The scent is made from
tiger orchid and is probably a woman's perfume made only by Heavenly
Fragrances. EXIT and go there. TALK to SHOPKEEPER. INVENTORY. SHOW RANSOM
NOTE. A very odd woman orders this perfume from time to time. You are told
to get some tiger orchid for the shopkeeper to make a new batch. Well, may
be you can buy some from The Scarlet Orchid. Go back there and TALK to
SHOPKEEPER about "TIGER." You find out that you may be able to steal some
at The Ad Dur Docks. EXIT and go there.

You get here by riding in Bill's taxi. LOOK. You will need help to climb
up to that second story window. ACTION. CHIP-OUT JAPAN EASY. CHIP-IN ALPINE
JACK. INVENTORY. CHIP-RACK. USE CHIP SKILL of ALPINE JACK. Okay, you are
outside the window. You need to bypass the security system to get inside.
ACTION. CHIP-OUT KUNG-FU MASTER. CHIP-IN PHANTOM. INVENTORY. CHIP RACK.
USE CHIP SKILL of PHANTOM. You get in and pick up two packages: the tiger
orchid and a Cuban cigar box. ACTION. CHIP-OUT PHANTOM. CHIP-IN KUNG-FU
MASTER. EXIT. TALK to BILL to take you back to BUDAYEEN. EXIT and return
to Heavenly Fragrances.

 TALK to SHOPKEEPER. INVENTORY. GIVE TIGER ORCHID. It's done. All you can
do now is wait for the shopkeeper to call you when the odd woman shows up
at the shop. EXIT and go back home. SLEEP. The belt phone interrupts your
sleep again. It's a call from Heavenly Fragrances. The odd woman has picked
up her cologne and there is a phone number on the bill: 774TFF60. INVENTORY.
USE BELT PHONE. Dial the commcode: 774TFF60. That phone belongs to
Mohammad's Glass. Well, you better get some rest before you continue your
investigation; you need it. SLEEP until 6:00 p.m. Save the game if you want
to.