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From: elaine@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Elaine May)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: bane of the cosmic forge
Message-ID: <11480013@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM>
Date: 14 May 91 14:57:14 GMT
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>    Help!!!  Possible spoilers...
    

>    A couple of more things...I got the bone key and went down below the 
> pyramid and was able to open a gate at the bottom.  I went down to a long 
> corridor with lots of traps and buttons.  I've pressed them all.  And I 
> went to the square room at the end.  I pressed another button there, 
> which revealed a secret room in the same room.  I went there and found 
> another button which I eagerly pressed. I proceeded to head back to see 
> what this button had done.  It revealed a small corridor which branched 
> off of the long corridor.  It ended with a button.  Once again, I 
> pressed the button.  Couldn't find anything else that happened.
>    Now, what was the purpose of the button?
Oh boy, you did just what I did.  I hope you've been making "backup saves",
cause you didn't want to push that button.  You need to fall down the pit
without pushing those buttons in the square room.  You're going to need to
do that to proceed.  [I could be wrong about having to go back to a "backup
save, but I couldn't find any way to make the pit open back up and I know 
for sure that the thing that will open the gate you asked about earlier 
is down that pit].

>    I killed the Rock Guardian at the top of the Giant Mt. and 
> got a ruby eye from him.  Is this one of the gems to open the Skull Door?
Yep.

>    Just a few more...how do I lower the drawbridge???  And I AM an 
> engineer, and believe me, most of us aren't that proficient with vocabulary.
Here's some hints & the whole solution:

Here is the solution for the drawbridge.  First are some hints, then some more
blatent hints, then the complete spoiler.

Knowing what the words mean is helpful.
   inchoate -- almost ready to happen
   nascency -- activation
   interdigitation -- interlock
   ascension -- rising
   extrinsic -- outside of
   immurement -- enclosing/activation

The safety switch must be pressed twice -- once at the beginning.

The correct sequence is:
   safety switch
   translux pump 
   auto coilwrap
   truss drivers
   safety switch
   spring winder
I waited 5 seconds between the pump and the coilwrap, but I don't know if
that's necessary or not.