Solution to THE GOLDEN WOMBAT OF DESTINY ======================================== wander until u stumble onto something or hit the castle wall. if u are at a castle wall, get to the south side of the castle, read the graffiti & follow the directions (s s). pull ring > opens trap door. d n n n u > castle square. square - alley - alley | | machine - avenue cul de sac kennel | | deadend - ave. end bend - bend | | curving - crossroad - crescent track | | | | tight ULTIMATE ruins ------------- tower | lesser hallucination - alley | funnel - DOME X - X | | | | X --- X - YARD - X cul de sac can't wake the wombat yet. ruins > coin. examine statue. read inscription. now u know the wombat is nocturnal & sensitive to sound. tower u > slot. u need a card for the slot. u u u > nameless horror. u'll learn more about this later. u > box. the lever is disfunctional at the moment. examine box & put box on depression. u need to put a jewel in this box. kennel examine kennel > there is something in there. smell kennel > it smells of wombat. lesser hallucination keep exiting & entering this room & u get some information. the jewel is a pearl & u need to perform a ritual on the nameless horror. dome u notice the tower has a window that is situated above the dome. the yard entrance blocked by a termite. machine put coin in slot in avenue > w > bottle of poison. this poison can kill the termite but u need to throw it from the tower window into the dome to do so. examine slot > something in there is jamming the lever. cul de sac wait till night. shout at wombat > wakes it up & now it'll follow you. kennel the wombat enters kennel & kicks out card & leaflet. open & read leaflet > line from Shakespeare's As You Like It. tower put card in slot in tower > w. throw bottle through window > it lands in the dome & kills the termite. yard u'll find another coin. push square on NW wall until it clicks back. push square on NE wall & read it. It tells u how to perform the ritual & that u need to KTHALAK the empress. but for that u need to know her name. * And if u know ur literature, the "she" in the leaflet refers to Rosalind, * which is incidentally also the name of the Empress. dome put coin in funnel > hamster examine slot in machine > something jamming the lever. tower go to the nameless horror kthalak rosalind > egg. rush with egg to the machine. machine put egg under spike & push button > pearl. put hamster in slot > carrot. pull lever > u have now enabled the lever in the tower. tower top put pearl in box > opens Ultimate Hallucination room. pull lever > opens flap & frees an ardvark that eats the ant. alley get skull. go to Ultimate Hallucination room with skull. ************************* Solved by Ambat Sasi Nair *************************