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[[Image:KQ6_Mother_Ghost_in_the_Realm_of_the_Dead.png|thumbnail|left|Talk to the mother ghost and get her handkerchief.]] | [[Image:KQ6_Mother_Ghost_in_the_Realm_of_the_Dead.png|thumbnail|left|Talk to the mother ghost and get her handkerchief.]] | ||
On the next screen, you'll see another mournful spirit: you should ask her what's wrong. TALK to the spirit, and she'll tell you that her son, Ali, is lost somewhere in the land of the living, and doesn't know how to find her. When you ask how you can help, she'll automatically give you her handkerchief [1], which her son can use to find her. You'll have to look for her son when you get back...that is, IF you get back. Your journey only gets more dangerous from | On the next screen, you'll see another mournful spirit: you should ask her what's wrong. TALK to the spirit, and she'll tell you that her son, Ali, is lost somewhere in the land of the living, and doesn't know how to find her. When you ask how you can help, she'll automatically give you her handkerchief [1], which her son can use to find her. You'll have to look for her son when you get back...that is, IF you get back. Your journey only gets more dangerous from here. Walk down to the gate in the shape of a skull: that's the entrance to the inner Realm. | ||
=== Entering the Inner Realm === | === Entering the Inner Realm === | ||
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=== Solving the Gate's Riddle === | === Solving the Gate's Riddle === | ||
[[Image:KQ6_The_Gate_Guarding_the_Lord_of_the_Dead_Comes_To_Life.png|thumbnail|left|Talk to the gate to answer its riddle.]] | |||
You're almost to the Lord of the Dead: all you have to do is pass through the gate to his throne. Use the HAND on the gate to go through, and...ZOUNDS!!! That's no ordinary gate: it's some kind of creature! And it seems to be very eager to have you for dinner, and not as its guest. | |||
You need to see if you can reason with it. TALK to the gate, and it will offer you a challenge. If you solve its riddle, it will let you pass. If you fail, it eats you. You'd better hope the riddle isn't too difficult. The gate will pose the following riddle: | |||
[[Image:KQ6_Realm_of_the_Dead_Gate_Riddle.png|thumbnail|right|Use the keypad to answer the riddle.]] | |||
''My first is foremost legally.''<br/> | |||
''My second circles outwardly.''<br/> | |||
''My third leads all in victory.''<br/> | |||
''My fourth twice ends a nominee.''<br/> | |||
''My whole is this gate's only key.''<br/> | |||
As it happens, this riddle isn't all that tough: the clues are all references to letters of the alphabet, and the answer is a 4-letter word. But you've actually seen the answer to this riddle before. Remember the scrap of paper in the Black Widow's web from the Isle of Wonder? It was the answer to a riddle from the rare book, but the riddle was missing. In fact, the missing riddle is the gate's riddle, and the answer is '''Love'''. Use the keypad to enter the word "LOVE" [3]. The gate will be furious, but will grudgingly let you pass. Go through quickly, before it changes its mind. | |||
=== Challenging the Lord of the Dead === | === Challenging the Lord of the Dead === | ||
[[Image:KQ6_Alexander_Faces_the_Lord_of_the_Dead.png|thumbnail|left|Use the gauntlet on the Lord of the Dead to challenge him.]] | |||
You've now made it to the Lord of the Dead's throne: all you need to do to face him is ask the guards for an audience. TALK to the guards, and they'll be surprisingly accommodating and allow Alexander to meet with the Lord of the Dead. | |||
The Lord of the Dead will at first be a bit puzzled as to why you've come before him with your flesh still intact, and "generously" offer to let you become one with the spirits. You didn't come here to give up, though: you came here to challenge Death and to chew bubble gum, and they don't have any bubble gum in the Realm of the Dead. You need to issue the Lord of the Dead a formal challenge, though: just talking to him won't do it. In fact, you need to throw down the gauntlet. No, really: that's exactly what you need to do. USE the gauntlet on the Lord of the Dead to challenge him [2]. | |||
The Lord of the Dead will be infuriated that a mere mortal dares challenge him, and will give you a particularly impossible challenge. Your challenge: make him, a being who's literally seen it all, cry. That is a tall order: the Lord of the Dead has seen all manner of suffering and pain, and never once shed a tear. That sort of challenge would make lesser men give up. But Alexander has a trick up his sleeve. | |||
[[Image:KQ6_Alexander,_Queen_Allaria,_and_King_Caliphim_Prepare_to_Return_to_the_Isle_of_the_Crown.png|thumbnail|right|After you successfully challenge the Lord of the Dead, Night Mare will transport you, King Caliphim, and Queen Allaria back.]] | |||
Remember what the Druids told you about the Lord of the Dead? He was once a mortal man who was cursed by the gods to rule the underworld. He probably remembers the man he was, and has no idea what sort of thing he's become. You need to remind him of exactly how damned he is. As it happens, you have something that's perfect for revealing truth: Beast used it to remind himself of the man he was, and now is again. USE the mirror you got from Beast on the Lord of the Dead [4]. The Lord of the Dead will see all too clearly the terrible fate that he's condemned to, and the hideousness of the realization will be too much for the mirror to bear: it'll shatter in Alexander's hands. But as it shatters, the Lord of the Dead will shed a single tear. | |||
Having been bested, the Lord of the Dead will allow you, King Caliphim, and Queen Allaria to return to the Land of the Green Isles. As he'll remind you, though, you will be returning to his kingdom someday. Hopefully that'll be later rather than sooner. In the meantime, the Lord of the Dead will summon Night Mare to take the three of you back, and you'll return to the Isle of the Crown. | |||
You should now have '''176 of 231''' points. | |||
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