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ZORK II
 Part 1
 Doesn't this look familiar?  It should because it's right where
ZORK I ended!  Ah, here are your faithful companions from ZORK
I, the lamp and the Elven Sword.  Get these and go south three
times, southwest, south.  Light your lamp (there are grues
lurking in the dark!).  Go southeast.  Turn your lamp off
because you're in a beautiful garden that's lit by luminous
lichens! Enter the gazebo and get everything yu see laying on
the table.  Forget about the Unicorn because you're not capable
of approaching the timid creature.  Exit the gazebo, go south
twice and west then turn your lamp back on.
 You've entered one of the strangest rooms in ZORK II...the
Carousel!  It spins madly about and everytime you move, you're
taken to a random location.  So the first thing we're going to
do is turn it off.  Select a random direction and keep returning
to the Carousel Room using the chart below until you get to the
Marble Hall.  When you get there, go north to the Deep Ford and
fill your teapot with water.  Then go back south twice to the
Carousel Room.  Now, select another random direction and keep
returning to the Carousel Room until you get to the Riddle Room.
 This is a good place to be because you're now able to turn off
the Carousel and stop this craziness!
 ROOM NAME           RETURN BY GOING:
  Menhir               North
  Marble Hall          South
  Cool Room            Southeast
  Cobwebby Corridor    Northeast
  Path Near Stream     Southwest
  Topiary              West
  Riddle Room          Northwest
 You're looking at a huge stone door in the eastern wall.  On
its face is a riddle that must be answered before you can enter
the door.  Say "well" and the huge door opens with a thunderous
roar!  Go east and look.  There's a beautiful Pearl Necklace
laying here!  Leave it for now and head east again. You've
located the Frobozz Magic Well.  That's what the legend on the
wall says.  Get in the bucket and pour the water ou of the
teapot.  That's how the bucket is activated.  When the last drop
is poured, the bucket magically rises and you find yourself at
the top of the well.  Drop the teapot and get out of the bucket
and go east.  Hope you're dressed for the occasion because
you've stumbled upon a tea party of sorts!  Don't those cakes
look appetizing?  Don't eat anything just yet, there's someone
waiting to meet you!
Go northwest and imagine that...there's a robot standing here.

Looks like he needs directing.  Tell the robot to go east, then
go east yourself.  You're in the Carousel's control room.  But
don't touch those buttons yourself...they are highly dangerous
to humans, but not to robots!  Tell the robot to push the
triangular button.  As he's doing this, you receive clues as to
what's happening in the Carousel Room.  When the robot's done
your bidding, tell him to go south then go south yourself.

There's a red sphere here, but without some help, you'll never
get it.  Take the sphere and immediately a steel cage is dropped
on top of you trapping you in the closet.  If you don't act
quickly, a poisonous gas will complete the job of catching the
"footpad" (that's you!) and you'll be most dead!  Tell the robot
to lift the cage.  The robot seems to take perverse pleasure in
rending the cage to scrap metal! Trying to take the sphere
sprung the trap, but you still haven't got it.  So take the
sphere again, say goodbye to the robot and go north, west and
southeast back to the tea party room. Part 2
 Now it's time to eat some cke!  Get the red, green and blue
cakes and eat the green cake.  My goodness, you've certainly
lost a lot of weight!  You're now the size of a mouse and
everything is huge including those "cracks" you were able to
just step over a few moments ago!  But you're now small enough
to enter the tiny hole to the east.  So go east and throw the
red cake into the pool.  The cake acts like a sponge and soon
the pool is completely empty revealing a bag of precious
candy-coated insects.  Get the candies and go west.  Now to get
you back to normal.  Eat the blue cake and presto!  You're now
your original size and able to leave this strange tea partybehind.
 Go west back to the bucket, get in and get the teapot.  Now get
the water and soon the bucket is back down at the bottom of the
well.  Drop the teapot, get out of the bucket and go west.  Get
the necklace this time and go west and northwest back to the
Carousel Room.
 When you get there, you find it's stopped spinning and there's
a dented metal box lying here.  Open the box and you find a
Stradivarius Violin!  Your load is too heavy to get it just now,
so let's go dump some stuff.  Go southwest to the Cobwebby
Corridor.
 This is a good place to drop any treasures and spheres you've
managed to collect so far.  As you've no doubt noticed, Frobozz
will cause you to drop various items with his crazy "F" spells.
It's a light waster having to try to pick up items over and over
again.  And you will always drop the item you're trying to pick
up plus one additional item you're carying!  It's frustrating,
to say the least!  Frobozz will also steal items from you with
his "Filch" spell and before you know it, the treasure you've
been lugging around with you suddenly isn't there any more!  You
don't loose points for this, but when it's time for you to buy
the services of the demon, it will be confusing knowing if he's
demanding one more treasure that Frobozz may have stolen or that
you haven't found yet.  So unload your treasures and spheres
here.

 Don't worry about the lizard just yet.  We have more important
things to do! We'll take care of the lizard, treasures and
spheres at the same time in the last part of this walkthru.
Lying on the ground here is a coil of odd looking string.  This
is actually an explosives fuse.  Get it and go northeast back to
the Carousel Room.
 Get the violin and go west (a room you weren't able to get to
until the Carousel was turned off).  Get the Grue Repellent (in
case your lamp runs out of power) and go back east.  Once more
back southwest to the Cobwebby Corridor to unload the violin and
repellent, then northeast back to the Carousel Room.
 We're off to slay dragons, so look lively and make sure you
have your sword with you!
 Go northwest to the cool room, then go north twice.  Oooh! It's
scary in here because we're face to face with a huge
fire-breathing dragon!  You can't possibly kill it, but you can
get its attention!  Hit it with the sword and go south.  I'll be
darned, it's following you!  Hit it again and go south again.
Hmmm, still with you?  God!  Hit it one more time and lead it
west.  You've both entered a room of glassy ice.  The dragon
sees its own reflection and in true dragon fashion, is outraged
that there's another dragon in his realm!  It breathes a huge
flame of fire which immediately melts all the ice in the room!
The dragon is inundated with water, which eaffectively quenches
its flame and it is carried to its doom far away.  In melting
the ice in the room, the dragon has opened another door for you.
 So go west and look.  There's a huge ruby lying here!  Drop the
sword and get the ruby then go east twice to the Cool Room.
 We're off to free a princess now so go north three times.
You've entered the Dragon's Lair and sleeping here as if under a
spell is a beautiful princess. Don't try anything strange with
the princess!  There's also a rotted old chest here.  When you
try to open it, though, the princess awakens and looks out of
the lair and at you.  If she leaves the room, follow her, but if
she's just sitting there looking indecisive, try opening the
chest again.  We'll get what you found in the chest later.  Just
don't lose the princess! Eventually, she will leave.  Follow her
everywhere she goes.  If she pauses, a "look" should get her
moving again.  Soon, she'll lead you back to the Garden and
enter the gazebo.  When she does, enter the gazebo, too.  After
several "looks" and "waits" (and turning your lamp off!), the
Unicorn will approach the princess without fear.  She will
remove the red ribbon from its neck, tie her hair up with i and
give you the tiny gold key and a perfect rose, mount the
Unicorn, and ride off.  Drop the rose, as pretty as it is, you
don't need it.  Exit the gazebo, go south twice, turn your lamp
on, and go west back to the Carousel Room.  Let's go rob a bank!


Part 3
 We're off to play "footpad" again, only this time we're not
going to need any help to get the loot!  From the Carousel Room
go northwest to the Cool Room, north twice and west twice to the
Bank Entrance.  This next part is a little tricky, so follow the
directions closely so you don't set off any alarms!
 Go northeast, east and south to the Chairman's Office.  My, my!
 Look at that, old J. Pierpont Flathead himself!  But not in the
flesh, only in an oil painting.  Get the portrait and go back
north.  Drop the painting here and enter the shimmering curtain
of light.  You've been transported to a seemingly exitless room!
 But don't panic, just enter the south wall and presto! You're
back at the Safety Deposity again.  Enter the curtain once more
and this time, it looks like the same room, but it isn't!  For
here lying neatly stacked is a pile of ZORKmid Bills!  Get the
bills and enter the north wall.  Now drop the bills and go west.
 If you try to leave the Depository carrying the bills or the
portrait, an alarm sounds and an invisible barrier blocks your
leaving! Go back west to the bank vault, get the bills and the
portrait and enter the curtain of light then go south.  This
time, when you exit the room, you find yourself back at the
bank's main entrane!  You did it!  Let's get out of here before
they loose the hounds on us!
 Go east twice back to the Dragon's Room and go north to its
Lair.  Now get the golden dragon statuette and go south.
Your're pretty well loaded up, but there's one more task to
perform in this area, so go east twice and up to the Tiny Room.
What a strange place this is!  We're going to pick this lock.
Put the placemat you've been lugging around under the door and
lift the lid that's covering the keyhole.  Now put the letter
opener into the keyhole.  <clunk!> What was that?  Pull the
placemat and look.  There's the key!  Get the key and drop the
placemat.  Then get the letter opener and drop it.  Now unlock
the door with the rusty key (you have to specify which key if
you're still carrying the tiny gold key!), open the door and go
north into the Dreary Room.
 If you're still carrying the rusty key, you can drop it because
you don't need it anymore.  Sitting in the middle of the table
is a Blue Sphere!  Get the sphere and go south, down twice,
south twice and southwest to the Cobwebby Corridor.  Drop
everything you're carrying except for the lamp, match, newspaper
and string.  Go back northeast and north to the Marble Hall.
Get the clay brick and go back south then northwest to the Cool
Room.  Now go west twice and south.
 Well, would you look at that?  There's a deflated hot-air
balloon lying here. Let's see if it still works!  Get in the
basket and open the receptacle.  Put the newspaper in the
receptacle and light the newspaper with on of your matches.
 I would strongly suggest you save your game here.  There are
several spells that Frobozz may cast on you that would
effectively kill you!  One is "Float" which is a rather nasty
spell that causes you to float in the air.  Think what would
happen if you were in the balloon 200 feet above the volcano
floor and were caused to float!
 While you read the above paragraph, the balloon finished
inflating and has risen off the volcano floor.  You will see
three ledges on your way up.  Only the first and third ledges
are wide enough for you to land on.  So wait until you see the
first ledge then land the balloon.  Always, always, always tie
the wire to the hook you see on the ledge.  If you don't, your
transportation will float away from you!
 Get out of the basket and look.  There's a gold ZORKmid coin
lying here pretty as you please!  Get the coin and go south to
the Library.  There are several books lying here, but the one
we're interested in is Purple.  Don't bother trying to read the
books.  They're written in a long forgotten tongue. Get the
Purple Book and go north back to the ledge and get into the
basket. Drop the coin and book, untie the wire and wait until
you see the third ledge. The description of the ledges will seem
alike, so watch closely for the ledge and open sky above you.
When you see the third ledge, land the balloon (tie the wire!),
get out of the balloon and go south to the Dusty Room.
 See the hole in the strange box sitting here?  Put the clay
brick in the hole, then put the coled string in the brick.
Light the fuse with one of your matches then go north.  Don't
hang around in the room after you light the fuse!  When you hear
the explosion go back south into the room and look. There's a
Gawdy Gold Crown lying here!  Get the Crown and go back north,
get in the balloon, untie the wire and close the receptacle.
After you close the receptacle, you notice the balloon is
started to descend.  Which is good.  You didn't really want to
go floating off in space, did you?  Right!  Also as you're
descending you see the ledge you just left crumble away to
nothingness! It must have been the explosion that loosened
whatever was holding the ledge in place.  Whew!  Close call!
 While you're waiting for the balloon to reach ground level
again, get the Purple Book and open it.  Doing so reveals a rare
ZORKmid Stamp!  Get the stamp and drop the book then get the
coin and when you reach the ground, get out of the basket and go
back north, east, up and south to the Cobwebby Corridor.  Drop
the Crown, Stamp, Coin and matches here.  You should only be
carrying the lamp now.  One more stop, then we'll put this
puzzle together!
 Go northeast then south to the Menhir Room.  Then go south to
the stairway and go down the stairs.  You've entered the
Oddly-Angled Room maze.  The maze is completely unmappable, but
don't despair.  The diamond shaped windows you see in each room
tells you your progress.  When you're doing well, the windows
increase in intensity.  When you've accomplished your task, the
windows glow srenly.  When you're not doing so well, the
windows glow dimly.  Go southeast until you see a club lying on
the floor.  Pick up the club and swing it. Whoosh!  Time to run
the bases and head for home.  So run southeast, northeast,
northwest and southwest.  As you run southwest, you hear a rusty
squealing like a long-lost panel opening!  Keep going southwest
until you get back to the stairway.  I'll be darned!  There's
another stairway leading further down!  You're not ready to go
down yet, so go up the stairway, north twice and southwest to
the Cobwebby Corridor.  It's time to meet the Demon!

 Part 4
 At last!  You're ready to give Frobozz a run for his money and
get his magic wand!  But first you have to get past the
lizardhead guard!  What do lizards eat?  Right!  Insects!  Get
the candied insects, the tiny gold key and the two spheres and
go southwest to the door.  Feed the lizard the candies.  Talk
about gluttony!  The lizard gobbles the candies and settles back

for a long snooze!  Unlock the door with the tiny key, open the
door and go south through the door.
 The odor of strange, pungent smells asail your senses!  You've
located the Wizard's Workshop.  The smells seem to be coming
from the west.  Go west. It's Frobozz's Workroom and there's all
sorts of arcane paraphernalia lying about.  The important thing
to notice, though, is the color of the stands you see on the
workbench.  Hmmm...ruby, sapphire, diamond.  Red sphere, Blue
sphere, and one sphere you haven't found yet.  Put the red
sphere on the rubystand and the blue sphere on the sapphire
stand.  Then go west again.  You're in the Aquarium Room and
sitting there looking absolutely harmless is an aquarium with a
baby sea serpent in it.  Don't you believe it!  That guy would
kill you if you got too close to it!  Throw the club at the
aquarium.  The club smashes the aquarium to pieces, the water
drains out revealing a dying baby sea serpent and a Clear
Sphere!
 Get the sphere and go back east to the Workroom and put the
Clear sphere on the diamond stand.  As you do so, all three
spheres disappear in three puffs of colorful smoke, a fourth
stand appears holding a Black Sphere!  Get the Black sphere and
go south to the Pentagram Room.  Put the Black sphere on the
Pentagram.
 Up out of the depths of some long forgotten spell appears a
Demon!  As you listen, you find that he will do you any one
service if you will pay his fee! The wand!  Go north, east, and
north twice to where you've been storing your treasures, get as
many as you can carry and go back to the Pentagram Room. Give
the Demon the treasures one at a time.  As you do so, he gives
little mutters of pleasure and indications that what you've
given him is not enough. When you've given him your first load
of treasures, return to the Cobwebby Corridor, get the rest of
the treasures and go back to the Pentagram Room. Give the Demon
the rest of the treasures.  As you're doing this, Frobozz may
appear and try to dissuade you from your task.  But don't
relent!  Keep giving the Demon the treasures until he sas it's
a small fee, but it's enough for the service.
 You must be very specific in telling the Demon what you want
done.  Tell him to give you the wand.  He approaches Frobozz
menacingly, making surly remarks in the process.  Frobozz tries
one last spell, "Fudge!" which leaves the smell of Chocolate
wafting in the air.  Cringing in terror, Frobozz relinquishes
the wand to the Demon and rushes out of the room.  The Demon
gives you the wand and disappears leaving you quite alone!  Time
to finish the puzzle!
 Go north, west, north twice and northeast to the Carousel Room.
 Now go south to the Menhir Room.  That huge block was an
obstacle before, but no longer! Point the wand at the Menhir and
say "Float".  The Menhir glows briefly and then rises gently
into the air revealing a passage behind it!  Go southwest and
you've located a Kennel.  How odd!  There's a dog's collar here,
too!  Get the collar and go back northeast then south and down
the stairway twice.
 What a dog!  Three heads growling and snapping at you!  Put the
collar on the dog and it becomes quite tame, even puppy-ish!
Cute.  No time to pet it, though, you're almost through.  Go
east into the Crypt Anteroom then south into the Crypt.  A
moment of silence, please, for the builders of the Great
Underground Empire of ZORK...the Flatheads.  Don't feel quite
through?  You're not!  Turn the lamp off.  There in the southern
wall you see a faint line of light outlining a door!  Open the
door and go south to the Landing.  Finally, go down the stairs.
You find ourself on an endless stairway.  You've conquered
Frobozz!  Your final test of courage and skill awaits you in
ZORK III where you become the new Wizard of ZORK!
 ZORK II is copyrighted by
   Infocom, Inc., 1982.
 This walkthru is copyrighted
   by Barbara Baser, 1984.
     All rights reserved.