Climbing the Logic Cliffs
The Logic Cliffs serve as the copy protection for this game, as climbing them requires the information contained in the Guidebook to the Land of the Green Isles included in the game box. Three of the Logic Cliffs puzzles are riddles, which this walkthrough will give solutions to. The other two are also riddles, but require you to know the "alphabet" of the Winged Ones, i.e. a set of symbols from the guidebook. This walkthrough can not provide that set of symbols for copyright reasons.
Unless you have the Guidebook to the Land of the Green Isles or a copy of the relevant information from that guidebook, you will not be able to proceed past this point in the game.Now that you're back on the Isle of the Sacred Mountain, it's time to climb the Logic Cliffs. No one has climbed them in centuries, but you'll have to give it a try for Cassima's sake.
Each screen of the Logic Cliffs consists of a puzzle set into the rock: you can LOOK at the puzzles or use the HAND on them to try and solve them. Successful solutions will cause a new set of steps to emerge from the rocks. WALK on each step to ascend the Logic Cliffs, but be careful: one false step will send Alexander plummeting to his death.
The first puzzle is the words "IGNORANCE KILLS WISDOM ELEVATES", and the clue from the Guidebook is "RISE". Click on the R in IGNORANCE, the I in KILLS, the S in WISDOM, and any of the E's in ELEVATES to solve the first puzzle [1]. Go up the stairs to the second puzzle.
The second puzzle is "A MASTER OF LANGUAGES WILL ----", and a set of ideograms corresponding to the Winged One's alphabet. The answer to the riddle is "soar". Using the Guidebook, find the ideograms that correspond to the letters S, O, A, and R, and enter those to solve the second puzzle [1]. Go up the stairs to the third puzzle.
The third puzzle is a set of four circles etched into the stone. The solution comes from the following riddle in the Guidebook:
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Four men standing in a row,
Third from the left and down you go,
The rest, in order, move you on.
The Youngest, the Oldest, and the Second Son.
Click on the rightmost circle, the leftmost circle, and the second circle from the left to solve the puzzle [1]. See the screenshot if you're confused about which circles to click on. Go up the stairs to the fourth puzzle.
The fourth puzzle is "SACRED FOUR" and another copy of the Winged One's alphabet. The Sacred Four are the color azure, the emotion tranquility, the animal caterpillar, and the element air. These all correspond to letters of the Winged One's alphabet. Specifically, they correspond to the letters O, D, Q, and G. Use your Guidebook to enter the ideograms corresponding to these letters [1]. Go up the stairs to the fifth puzzle.
The fifth puzzle is the words "ALL SILENT CRY THE NOBLE BOULDERS", and the clue from the Guidebook is ASCEND. Click on the A in ALL, the S in SILENT, the C in CRY, the E in THE, the N in NOBLE, and the D in BOULDERS to solve this final puzzle [1]. Go up the stairs to the top of the Logic Cliffs.
Getting the Peppermint
Congratulations: you've made it to the top of the Logic Cliffs! And there seems to be someone here to greet you: there's an old woman up here who's offering you some berries that she claims will give you the power to fly. Those berries look like deadly nightshade, though, and the "old woman" has suspiciously glowing eyes. It's your old friend the genie again, trying to trick you into doing yourself in. Just ignore "her" until she gives up in frustration and disappears.
Now that she's gone, there's a cave by the nightshade that you'll want to explore. Use the HAND on the cave entrance to go in [1], but be very careful not to click on the nightshade by mistake. Doing so will be an immediate game over, as Alexander will eat the deadly berries and die shortly afterwards.
Enter the cave. It's pretty dark in here: once you get away from the entrance, Alexander won't be able to see anything. There's another room in the cave, but if Alexander can't see it, he can't go in. USE the tinderbox to generate some light [2], and then use the HAND on the small opening on the right side of the screen to move into the next room.
The second room will have some more light due to a naturally occurring window. There's some sort of green plant growing by the window: it's peppermint. Use the HAND on the peppermint to take some [1]. You know that mint is a weakness of the genie's, so this is good to have.
You're all done here: time to explore the rest of the island. Exit the cave and walk north along the path.