The evil Nogrim and his troops have stormed the pixie kingdom and killed or imprisoned the inhabitants. A pixie managed to escape the invasion and has come across you wandering in the wood. He asks of you a great favour and that is to venture back into the ruined kingdom and rescue the pixies from the evil forces. However Nogrim has tightly guarded the areas and establishments within the kingdom so your task is not an easy one. The guards are by no means dim they will chase and attack you upon sighting and in such instances you must defend a pixie in some cases or just yourself with your trusty old broadsword.
Aim of the game:
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The aim of each level is as previously mentioned to take any captured pixies and show them the way to the exit individually
N.B. you can only guide one pixie at a time to the exit and another cannot be undertaken until the present pixie is safe and home!
Whilst puzzling of each level you must deal with beasts, doors and keys, Energizors or Pentragrams of life, Acid, Holes and harmful plants and treasure spots each of which is briefly described on the opening message.
Doors and keys like everybody knows work with each other. A door is useless without a key and a key is no good without a door so you must collect keys in order to open necessary doors. Note that only one door can be opened with one key and that only one key may be carried at once. Also you must realise that some doors are stiff and require and extra barge to open with your sword.
Energizors or Pentagrams of life:
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These are not found on every screen but when they are present on a level they are represented by a large circular spot. The use of these is to reduce your energy should it get too high. However that is not all they are expensive and on these spots magical properties exchange gold for health!
Not that if you have no money you cannot be healed so select the levels in a careful order!
Acid, holes and harmful plants:
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...and other harmful stationaries harm you immensly on contact so watch out for suspicious looking background.
Treasure spots:
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Treasure spots are areas where gold can be found and this is done by simply standing on the spot whether it be represented as a coin or a bag of money or a pound note etc. Although your gold is not represented on screen it sounds when it is increasing. Gold is shown on the inbetween level screen. Gold is also gained by finishing a level but in smaller amounts then treasure spots.
Energy:
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Energy is shown as a bar represented under the time bar at the bottom of the screen and when you are damaged whether it be in combat or collision with dangerous scenery it is increased in the direction of right. Be careful as if it reaches the far right side you are dead and it is game over. Also be careful as energy stays the same as it left off on the previous level so as stressed before keep an eye on the meter and the amount of gold you have for healing.
Time:
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Time is the other bar running parallel with the energy bar and this gradually increases throughout the level starting at the far left of the bar. Time is another enemy and can kill you if it reaches the far right border. Time bonuses are gained if the level is finished early. The earlier the greater the bonus score. Score is incidently shown on the inter-level screen. Time is reset to minimum at the beginning of each level unlike energy so no worries there.
Disks:
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The game comes on 2 disks and the document is found on this disc (disk 2) as you will already know. The first 5 levels are stored on disk 1 and the remainding 12 are on the data disk (disk 2)
The main program is loaded off disk 1.
N.B. The music on the title screen is only on when you are on the title screen with sound effects in game but if you want the music ingame you can toggle it on and off using keys 1 and 2.
Now, load the program off disk 1 entitled "Pixie.AMOS" and run!!!!
