D A M O C L E S (Novagen) MISSION 1: SABOTAGE A frantic dash to recover your Damocles game from an evil influence in under ten minutes. Professor Hantzen got extra mad when he learned that you were on the way to save Eris. So, just before you arrive, he's accepted the President's offer (after negotiating a very worthwhile reward), and got the ship intended for you. Along with one or two other useful items, this has now been blown up. But not before he set a lump of explosive to destroy the Novabomb on top of the spaceport tower. His intention was to sabotage your game. You have a little less than ten minutes to beat him at his own game! YOUR MISSION Starting with the V.I.P. Limo, and no transporter to take you from Capital City, you've got to get a craft that can fly you up to retrieve and disarm the explosive before it blows. BRIEFING There's a ship for sale for 9000CR at the trading post at 08:14. Pity you spent 5000CR on Bacchus before arriving. You could sell the car, but there's not enough time to walk about. The only way is some frantic motoring around to trade with what you find until you can afford the Best Cupand. SOLUTION Drive to the State Office. Collect the Air Conditioner and Settee and sell these at the trading posts at 12:03 and 13:03. Drive on to the Power Station at 14:05 to collect the Heat Resistant Suit and sell this on the way back at 14:03. Drive on to the Post Office at 12:14 and collect the A-Z Computer, then sell this at 14:15. Now you can afford the ship. It's tight on time, but you CAN do it! MISSION 2: BAD LUCK By your own doing, you arrive on Eris even later. That's if you can get there at all. Finding the facilities on Bacchus irresistable, you've called in on your way to Eris. While the State President anxiously awaits your arrival, you've just lost all your money, and your spacecraft, in a "double or quits" gamble at Uncle's Casino. But all is not lost. The benevolent casino manager has loaned you his car on the understanding that you are not about to use the "quit" option. It is somewhat unfortunate that a previous visitor from Pan has scrambled most of the regular transporter system. YOUR MISSION Check out the modified transporter arrangements and get yourself a new spacecraft. Then fly on to Eris and accept the President's assignment, which you need to complete in the time remaining. BRIEFING You'll certainly want a flight craft as soon as possible, even if this is not fitted for space travel. There's an extra-fast spacecraft, the Bullet, parked at the Military Base on Thalia. Remember, you'll be going into areas where Red Beacons are the indicators. SOLUTION Drive to Transporter 8 and collect the Red Beacon Indicator from the airport building. Go through to Transporter 9 and collect the Concord Key from Mentor Airport. Return and then fly Concord to Transporter 7, picking up the Red Beacon as a marker, and fly to the Pan Hades Labour Camp admin. office to collect the Bullet Key from from the first floor. Fly back to Transporter 6 and through to Transporter 5 on Thalia to then collect the Bullet. Off you go to Eris for the new challenge! MISSION 3: GO FOR GOLD You arrive on Eris, only to find that another mercenary has got there first. (The main commidity is gold in this trading extravaganza. Once you've got 4,840,000 CR you can readily save Eris, but then with only the Lloyds reward to go for........). A selfish mercenary has arrived ahead of you. Rejecting the President's offer, this opportunist has plundered three of the Novatriggers and the Novabomb, and sold these at Eris trading posts. Having arrived late, you feel obliged to pick up the pieces and save Eris knowing that Lloyds will at least reward you for saving the comet. In preparation for this task, you've spent your last 9000 CR to buy the Best Cupand and flown over to Key Island to swap this for the more versatile Dart II. You've collected some useful and some valuable objects and done a little trading. YOUR MISSION Locate the three Novatriggers and the Novabomb to determine how much more you need to earn to buy this back. Together with what you hold, six bars of gold will suffice. BRIEFING The Lawson Bank Repository on Tolosa holds four bars of gold, with others to be found on Chaldea City and at Solon. Provided you can sell all valuables at the most advantageous prices and then be lucky at Uncle's Casino, you will generate sufficient funds for the mission. You'll find the trading post at Mentor 05:03 more than generous, and a firm commodity market in trading posts on Logos, Vesta and, surprisingly, on Eris. SOLUTION Use Geiger Counter to locate Novabomb. The three triggers are in Eris Capital trading posts around 13:04. Fly via the Transporter to Bacchus then over to Tolosa. Blow repository door and collect 4 gold. Return to Bacchus, take Dart then walk through to Transporter 6 at Chaldea. Take this transporter outside. Collect gold from 06:06. Transport to Eris and fly to Penn School on Solon for the final gold. Transport to 7, Logos. Sell the Greenhouse Effect at 08:03, Briefcase at 07:00 and Gold at 08:00, 07:03 and 06:02. Back on Eris sell Gold at 15:15 and Beacon Indicator at 14:15. Fly to Vesta and sell Gold at 05:03 and 06:03. Transport to Mentor to sell Anti-Grav at 05:03. Transport to Bacchus and, at Uncle's Casino, SAVE YOUR GAME then double your money. On Eris, at trading posts with triggers, turn each "ON". Buy Novabomb. Transport to Chaldea to buy the fourth trigger, then blow Icarus before 1hr:40mins. MISSION 4: NIGHTMARE Just when you thought you had succeeded magnificently, you receive some bad news. You're into explosive action with this alternative to the Novabomb solution. Congratulations. You've used the Novabomb to save Eris and the Comet. You've gained the reward for both, done a little trading and now have mega-millions in credits. You owe yourself a holiday, and where better than at the Cyclopes IDI Camp? And then the news comes through. The Group 4 scientists have miscalculated. The precise moment that you took out Icarus is not working to the predicted effect. Damocles moves relentlessly on. Lloyds were covered with cock-up insurance, so they won't take the rewards back, and Margaret will come across with an additional 25,000,000 CR for you to now destroy the comet. YOUR MISSION With the Novabomb gone, you need to use the explosives equivalent: eight pieces of explosive placed together at setting '9' will blow Damocles. There are nine pieces in their usual locations. BRIEFING With just 1hr:30 mins to go, you'll need to get moving. Boarding your Targ Tourer, take the exit road and go left at the first junction to regain your Dart II. Chart the optimum course to call at Gaea, Eris and Theon to get eight explosives and the Timed Detonator. The penalty if you find just seven at these locations is a trip to Dion. SOLUTION Fly to 08:08 Vulcan Island, Gaea, then on to the Industrial Co-ops 1 and 2, at 01:02 and 05:02 Ur City for the first three. Fly over to 08:08 at Chaldea Metropolis to use the transporter through to No.1, for the Timed Detonator. Then transport to No.4 to collect the Briefcase. Return to Transporter 6, and fly to Eris. The fourth set of explosives is to be found in the basement of Hathaway's on Snow Island. At the Hantzen Lab, you increase your holding to seven and then fly to 02:03 on the moon Theon to collect the eighth. You should now have enough time to make it to Damocles! MISSION 5: THE WISHES SOLUTION Significant help with one of the oblique solutions to the challenge of Damocles. The Midas puzzle unravelled - at least as far as finding the pyramid number that you require, but then to find the pyramid!! Not recommended for players of an impatient disposition. One of the more oblique solutions to Damocles is hinted at in the Briefing File with a reference to the Mystical Order of Carpenters. Their Membership Secretary has decided that, if you can collect the President's Reward, then you might just afford their joining fee. So a few strings have been pulled to help you on the way. The Novagen Office on Birmingham Island is a good source of clues. This is where you start and you are already in possession of a valuable book! YOUR MISSION Check the file in your Inventory display and then read the contents of the Novagen Safe for a spectacular clue. Set off on the trail indicated. Two Red Beacons have been strategically placed to assist. Find the hidden number that identifies the pyramid on Midas that holds the Magic Crystal. BRIEFING Now where did you see those twelve star-sign markings? Look and you should find the means to translate that alien script hidden on Acheron. Given the pyramid number, you should remember that not all scripts read from left to right. SOLUTION As well as the LEO clue in the Novagen Cabinet, you'll find helpful information under the titles "YOU WISH" and "MILLIONS" in the Novagen Safe. Board the Dart, and fly to 03:14 to use the transporter on the first floor. Carrying the Dart, transport to No.5 (Eris 11:08). Fly to Lucan to find a pair or Reading Glasses. Return to Capital City 11:08 and go back through to transporter No.2, once again carrying the ship. Fly from Dion to Acheron, and at the Sphinx at 03:06, a concealed door is indicated by a Red Beacon. By holding the glasses, alien characters are translated for you to give you the number of the Midas Pyramid. On Midas, a knowledge of hexadecimal is useful, an appreciation of which number pairings are most significant is almost essential, and a lot of patience is invaluable!! FURTHER INFORMATION On the moon of Acheron, there are two Sphinxes. Each has three doors, one through the front and two into a separate room through the front of each rear foot (the nook in the side of the building). On the wall inside there is an eight-figure reference for a pyramid on Midas: 68 09 20 33. This pyramid is found at planet reference 577-341. In this pyramid there is a Magic Crystal you can use to grant one wish. In order to use it, you have to buy the book from the Trader at 13-15, Capital City, Eris. Read it as normal. If the Magic Crystal is in your possession when you read a wish it is granted. Here is a list of the wishes and (some of) the responses: 1. I WISH I HAD A CHEESE SANDWICH 2. I WISH I COULD RECEIVE 1,OOO,OOO CREDITS 3. I WISH I COULD SAVE ERIS FROM DAMOCLES - no response 4. I WISH I HAD MORE TIME 5. I WISH I COULD SAVE BOTH ERIS AND DAMOCLES - no response 6. I WISH THE UNIVERSE WAS MORE COLOURFUL - try it and see! 7. I WISH TO KNOW HOW TO USE THE AUTHOR'S COMPUTER 8. I WISH I HAD MERCENARY 3 NOW - try it and see! POSITIONS OF "MOST" OF THE OBJECTS IN THE GAME (Note that any items referred to as "Furniture" are objects such as tables, chairs and beds. Some other objects are Black Beacons which are found on most planets. The term 'object' is used to describe anything that can be picked up in the game) Some bases and buildings are hidden from you and to find these you must be carrying the Read and Blue Beacon Detectors. These are found in the following lovations: RED BEACON: Found on Vesta at Loc-ref 4:04 BLUE BEACON: Found on Mentor price 100,000 ECU's at Loc-ref 2:01 The rest of the objects........ LOC-REF BUILDING/PLACE OBJECT ISLAND PLANET 12:14......Post Office HQ........A-Z Computer......C/City.....Eris 09:02......Warehouse.............Nova Bomb.........UR City....Gaea 05:02......Research Lab..........Davy J/Locker.....A/Base.....Perseus 04:06......Vesta H/Parliament....Targ Tourer Key...P/B City...Vesta 06:05......Hantzen Lab...........Explosives........B/Isle.....Eris 04:06......Vesta H/Parliament....Briefcase.........P/B City...Vesta 01:00......Lloyds Group 4........Lottery Ticket....C/N/Town...Clotho 05:06......Trading Post..........Hi-Fi.............C/Metro....Gaea 09:07......Space Port............Concorde 3 Key....M/Way......Mentor 03:14......Verdant Party HQ......Transporter.......B/Island...Dion 00:07......Airport...............Dart II...........K/West.....Eris 07:07......Newton Lab............Anti-Grav.........K/West.....Eris 07:04......Hantzen Lab...........Geiger Counter....B/Isle.....Eris 04:03......Trading Post..........CB Rig............M/Way......Mentor 05:06......Court House...........Washbasin.........M/M/Base...Metis 01:01......Power Station.........Fireplace.........C/N/Town...Clotho 02:01......Active Marketing......Furniture.........C/N/Town...Clotho 06:02......Hantzen Sales.........Transporter.......B/Isle.....Eris 06:02......Hantzen Sales.........Detonator.........B/Isle.....Eris 02:01......Trading Post..........Blue Beacon.......M/Way......Mentor 04:04......Cross Roads...........Red Beacon........P/B/City...Vesta 01:01......Penn College..........Bookcase..........S/Base.....Solon 00:03......Green House...........Green/H Effect....D/East.....Dion 06:00......Annies Bar............D Key.............D/East.....Dion 02:11......Novagen Office........Safe..............B/Island...Dion 04:06......Vesta h/Parliament....Transporter.......P/B City...Vesta 06:06......Gaea Bank HQ..........Gold..............C/Metro....Gaea 01:01......Penn College..........Gold..............S/Base.....Solon 06:02......Hantzen Sales.........99 Chevy Key......B/Isle.....Eris 07:01......Hantzens New House....99 Chevy..........UR City....Gaea 07:01......Hantzens New House....Sideboard.........UR City....Gaea 03:07......Trading Post..........TV Control........V/City.....Eris 07:01......Hantzens New House....Transporter.......UR City....Gaea 11:08......Warehouse.............Transporter.......C/City.....Eris 00:06......Dooberrys Solicitors..Transporter.......M/M/Base...Metis 02:08......Space Port............Transporter.......B/Way......Bacchus 04:02......DHSS House............Transporter.......L/City.....Logos 09:07......Space Port............Transporter.......M/Way......Mentor 03:14......Verdant Party HQ......Transporter.......B/Island...Dion 03:01......Eris TV Media Link....Console...........Th/Base....Theon 08:08......Trade Commission......Transporter.......C/Metro....Gaea 08:08......Volcano...............Explosive.........V/Isle.....Gaea 15:12......Lawson Bank HQ........25 Million ECU....C/City.....Eris 00:10......Post Office...........Furniture.........B/Island...Dion 00:10......Post Office...........Fridge............B/Island...Dion 02:03......Burdock Media Link....Explosive.........Th/Base....Theon 09:14......Trading Post..........Acme Suit.........B/Island...Dion 01:01......Tomb Of Seth..........Console...........A/Retreat..Acheron 04:01......Pan/Hades Admin Dept..Bullet Key........P/H/L/Camp.Pan 06:03......Space Port............Bullet............Tha/B/Camp.Thalia 09:02......Playtester Stores.....Anti-Grav.........C/City.....Eris 14:13......Authors House.........Computer..........B/Island...Dion 09:09......M/S of Flying.........Electric Fire.....C/City.....Eris 09:08......State Office..........Air Conditioner...C/City.....Eris 09:08......State Office..........Damocles File.....C/City.....Eris 09:08......State Office..........Furniture.........C/City.....Eris 09:08......State Office..........9SE Key...........C/City.....Eris 12:14......Cross Roads...........Sunshade..........C/City.....Eris 08:14......Trading Post..........Best-Cup Key......C/City.....Eris 04:11......Gum Store.............King-Size Spanner.C/City.....Eris 09:08......Lawson Bank...........Antique Clock.....K/West.....Eris 06:06......Gum Store.............Thermal Undies....B/Isle.....Eris 04:05......EKM PU S Ad Agency....Furniture.........V/City.....Eris 04:01......Eris TV Studios.......Video Player......V/City.....Eris 04:01......Eris TV Studios.......Television........V/City.....Eris 06:04......Hathaways Wine Bar....Bottle............S/Isle.....Eris 06:04......Hathaways Wine Bar....Furniture.........S/Isle.....Eris 15:12......Lawson Bank HQ........F Key.............C/City.....Eris 01:04......Trading Post..........Hammer............D/North....Dion 02:02......Gum Store.............Washing Machine...B/Island...Dion 09:00......Gum Store.............Towel & Bath......B/Island...Dion 03:07......Gum Store.............Cash Register.....P/B/City...Vesta 01:03......Gum Store.............C Key.............M/M/Base...Metis 01:03......Gum Store.............Shower............UR City....Gaea 01:02......Industrial Co-op 1....Explosive.........UR City....Gaea 05:02......Industrial Co-op 2....Explosive.........UR City....Gaea 09:03......Trading Post..........Cooker............UR City....Gaea 06:05......Gum Store.............Cornflakes........C/N/Town...Clotho 02:02......IDI Palace of Fun.....Amplifier.........IDI/Cent...Cyclope 05:05......Museum................Guide.............C/Museum...Cronus 01:02......Gum Store.............Fish Tank.........B/Way......Bacchus 01:03......Casino................Phone Message.....B/Way......Bacchus 08:08......Trade Commission......22 CV Key.........C/Metro....Gaea 01:01......Gum Store.............Shopping Bag......A/Way......Atropos 04:02......DHSS House............Photocopier.......L/City.....Logos 07:01......Hantzens New House....Fax Machine.......UR City....Gaea 03:00......Post Office...........Note Pad..........S/Isle.....Eris 03:00......Post Office...........Storage Boxes.....S/Isle.....Eris 05:06......Court House...........Phone Message.....M/M/Base...Metis 09:02......Warehouse.............Piano.............UR City....Gaea 02:11......Novagen Office........Bin...............B/Island...Dion 02:11......Novagen Office........Answerphone.......B/Island...Dion 02:01......Active Marketing......Glasses...........C/N/Town...Clotho 02:01......Active Marketing......Table Lamp........C/N/Town...Clotho 02:01......Station...............Red Herring.......T/Base.....Icarus 09:08......Lawson Bank...........Furniture.........K/West.....Eris 06:05......Trading Post..........Sextant...........M/Way......Mentor 05:04......Trading Post..........Welsh Dresser.....M/Way......Mentor 00:05......Windmill..............Explosive.........D/North....Dion 04:04......Marillion Apts........Kitchen Sink......C/Metro....Gaea 04:04......Marillion Apts........Cooker............C/Metro....Gaea 04:04......Marillion Apts........Wall Clock........C/Metro....Gaea 04:04......Marillion Apts........Wardrobe..........C/Metro....Gaea 04:06......Emergency Facility....Life Support......A/Base.....Perseus 04:01......Emergency Facility....Life Support......A/Base.....Perseus 04:01......Emergency Facility....Bed...............A/Base.....Perseus 04:06......Emergency Facility....Bed...............A/Base.....Perseus 02:01......House.................Furniture.........C/City.....Eris 00:06......Dooberry's Solicitors.Filofax...........M/M/Base...Metis 00:06......Dooberry's Solicitors.Furniture.........M/M/Base...Metis 05:02......Industrial Co-op 2....Furniture.........UR City....Gaea 04:06......Vesta H/Parliament....Scroll............P/B/City...Vesta 04:06......Vesta H/Parliament....Furniture.........P/B/City...Vesta 03:04......Trading Post..........Fridge............S/Isle.....Eris 06:00......Annies Bar............Furniture.........D/North....Dion 06:00......Annies Bar............Furniture.........D/East.....Dion 07:08......Space Port............Intestell/Ship....C/City.....Eris 07:08......Space Port............Limo Key..........C/City.....Eris 07:08......Space Port............Limo..............C/City.....Eris 08:14......Trading Post..........Best Cup & Saucer.C/City.....Eris 06:06......Gaea Bank HQ..........Receipt...........C/Metro....Gaea 06:06......Gaea Bank HQ..........Furniture.........C/Metro....Gaea 01:01......Cross Roads...........Black Beacon......T/Base.....Icarus 03:14......Verdant Party HQ......Targ Tourer.......B/Island...Dion 08:08......Trade Commission......22 CV.............C/Metro....Gaea 02:08......Space Port............Concorde 3........B/Way......Bacchus 14:13......Author's House........Furniture.........B/Island...Dion 02:11......Novagen Office........Filing Cabinet....B/Island...Dion 06:03......Charlenes Disco.......Ghettoblaster.....L/City.....Logos 09:09......M/S of Flying.........9SE Spaceship.....C/City.....Eris * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *