![]() The frog then left the screen and I was now able to pick up a mushroom labelled “EAT ME”. Had I not tried to do that already I might not have known what to do with the tadpole which could have been quite frustrating, I imagine. I only found this easy because I had tried talking to the frog before finding the hotspot. You first need to find out that there is a tiny hotspot called “water”, investigate the water, find a tadpole in there and talk to the frog in order to tell him that you’ve taken the tadpole hostage and he should hop out of the way to guarantee for the safety of his offspring. To me this feels like the weakest part of the endgame. Our frequent contributor El Despertando found this puzzle quite rewarding but I tend to disagree with him on this. The solution to this conundrum was some more careful pixel-hunting. He spat me out stark naked and then spat out my clothes about a second later, prompting Simon to crawl offscreen in shame to put them back on. On the other side of the puddle there were a fishing dwarf, the head of a statue, and a frog who would try to eat me as soon as I got too close. If I neglected to do that the boat would run aground in the centre of the pond, forcing me to return to the tap. That didn't work because it was necessary to raise the water level of the pond. But on my second playthrough of this section I tried to cross the puddle without opening the tap. The first time I played through this section I didn't even figure out what this did. This opened the tap and some water poured into the puddle. Then I oiled the tap and pulled on the dog hair again. I used the stone on the seeds, prompting Simon to crush them with the stone and salvage the oil. With only two items left in my inventory the next step was clear, too. ![]() The rest was easy: The matchstick and the maple leaf turned the lily leaf into a makeshift boat and I was now able to reach the seeds on the other side of the screen. It took me a while to figure out I could (try to) pick up the lily leaf, prompting Simon to pull it closer to the shore, enabling me to stand on it. Because the tap was rusted stiff I was still unable to pull it open, and when Simon attempted to climb the tap he always slipped off and fell into the puddle. I used the hair with the tap and Simon threw it over it like a lasso. Inside I was reunited with my dog who just carried me to the next room which turned out to be.a giant garden. Simon shrank to the size of a mouse, lost all of his belongings in the process and entered the tower through a small crack. ![]() Now I understood I had to consume this if I wanted to enter the tower. When I brought it back to him he gave me a green potion labelled “DRINK ME” in return. ![]() I then realised how stupid I had been.Ī few hours ago I picked up some frogsbane on Skull Island because the druid had asked me to. Finally the valkyries confirmed (although I’m quite sure that I had first heard it from the wizards) that the druid might be able to help if somebody wanted to enter the tower. I also stopped by the Drunken Druid (this game’s SCUMM bar) but the wizards wouldn’t talk to me anymore either. I went back to the druid but he just said hello and offered no dialogue options, behaving as if I had no further business with him. I remembered that somebody in the game had told me how to enter the tower in the very beginning so I went over my notes and found one that said the druid might be able to help. Now that I was closer Simon was able to discern that the doors were big, heavy, magically enchanted, and wouldn’t budge. Simon mounted it, winked at me and flew straight into the stone doors. I had just obtained the witch’s broom so it wasn’t much of a puzzle. As you can see above there’s a fiery pit separating me from the entrance. Thus I had to replay the whole section for this post but as it’s quite short that was not a problem.įirst I had to figure out how to enter the tower. Actually I thought I’d just try to enter the tower and get the lay of the land without taking screenshots or completing my map – and then it was all over in about 80 minutes. I thought I might be ready for the endgame but didn’t think it would be that straightforward. Last time I took a break having solved all of the puzzles and finished all of the fetch quests in the game's rather large overworld. ![]()
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