King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow/The Catacombs: Difference between revisions

The first thing you'll notice down here is that it's pitch black.  You'd better get some light in here quickly, before the minotaur finds you stumbling around in the dark and kills you.  USE the tinder box to light things up [2].  Alexander will note that a torch is out, and light it, giving you enough light to continue.

Walk five screens west, two screens south, and one screen east.  When you enter the room, the game will note that the roaring of the minotaur is particularly loud here, as if coming from the next room.  There's no window in the east wall, but you have your own "window" that you can use.  USE the hole-in-the-wall on the east wall [1], and LOOK at the hole-in-the-wall [1].  You'll see the minotaur through the hole-in-the-wall.  He'll reach behind a tapestry to trigger a hidden latch that opens a door, and go through that door, which will close after him.  The hole-in-the-wall will run off afterwards, but you've just learned the secret entrance to the minotaur's lair.  Now all you have to do is find the tapestry that you saw through the wall.

Of course, it won't be easy to find the tapestry: you'll have to take the long way around to get to it.  Walk three screens west, two screens south, one screen east, one screen south, two screens east, one screen north, one screen east, and two screens north.  Whew!  But you've finally reached the tapestry after all that walking.  Use the HAND on the tapestry to trigger the hidden latch you saw before, and the door will open.  You're almost done with the catacombs: now all you have to do is defeat the minotaur.  That shouldn't be a hard task for a resourceful adventurer such as yourself.