A Mess O' Trouble (old mac game)

[tinat]

Yeah I've been playing this on and off for the last couple of months, maybe once or twice a week.... I'm not really a regular game player otherwise. Last time I played a computer game before this was when the sims first came out.

The fish.... ok first you have to go into the boat and take all items you can take from the downstairs room and say hako when you see a rocket. The rocket makes you stronger. Then when you go back to the beach and dive, under the water you see a shark that's blocking your way. You punch the shark in the nose and it runs away. Then you can go in two directions, one takes you to a cave with a golden brick, the other direction takes you to a reef. On the reef you'll find some gull caught in some fishing line. You catch the gull with the fishing net that you found on the boat, and remove the fishing line from the gull. There's a hook on the fishing line. You take it back to the shore, and look into the shrub that's on the beach, There you'll find a worm. So you put the hook on the pole and the worm on the hook, and go back to the boat. From there you can catch fish. Hope this all wasn't too much of a spoiler.

[otakutsukonko]

It's been so long since I played I forgot how you used the rocket! I remember it now... I recall figuring out how to get past the shark, and all that, I suppose the only thing I was never able to do was feed the fruit to the fish, and feed the fish to the dogs... Now I know why you told me it was unnesesary to do all this yet, as all it gets me is a new mission and an exit...

Was wondering if you know what to do with the gold brick, I can get it to the shore, but what else is it for? (I attached the life jacket to the brick to carry it through the water) And used the knife to open the giant clam.

On another note, I also found myself at the dirtcloud I guess, where you can see the Voidbeast in the distance... and there are a series of two buttons that seem to activated a teleporter or something... Any clue how to get the 3rd light to light? the room by the water supply has two buttons that refuse to stay down... I know I must be missing something!

[tinat]

I don't think the golden brick is for anything, it's just a "maximum value object"... it's one of the useless treasure things you need to collect cos if you don't have enough wealth you can't get out of the maze in the end...

The dirtcloud is a total mystery to me. I haven't gotten much further than you. That machine with 3 lights... I remember I got the 3rd light to come on (can't remember how exactly) but all that happened was that some kinda golden pyramid thing appeared on it, and that again was a useless "maximum value object". No idea how any of the other stuff there works... but from reading other posts in this thread I think you need to solve the voidbeast first, and then you get some cube which you need to insert into that control panel by the oval door, the one with the 6 buttons... I think...

[tinat]

I found the axe on the voidbeast!!! I'm such an idiot!
I went back and re-read all conversations I had with all the phleas, and noticed that the waiter in the bar told me that you can sometimes shoot things with locks to get them to open.
So I went back to the ruined hut with that empty trunk and I said "shoot knob". It opened up a hidden compartment and that's where the axe is!!

Then I used the axe to cut off a piece of hair, went back to the lathe, put the hair in the lathe, activated it, and it turned the hair into a "probe". Then I took the probe to the bio gate and stuck it in the horn with a hole in it. And turned it. And it opened the bio-gate!!

Now I can finally move on. Yay!

[otakutsukonko]

thanks for the help finding the hatchet and getting the probe, I got through the gate, but it didn't get me much further, I used my knife twice to get the orchid, and looked around and found a giant bug that eats the orchid, and unless you have to feed and refeed him a bunch of times to make him go away, I don't know what to do... both he and the leach queen won't die from gunfire... and I found a jump gate in the floor but only brought me to the dirtcloud one space away from the one that took me to the voidbeast.

O n top of the queen, the vet's door is closed and he's not home, the resident doesn't have anything to say when I knock on his door, and there is a lever that it says it doesn't do anything. Oh and there are little white mytes in the hair forest, anything you can do with them? I can't catch or kill them...

Otherwise any other advice? I haven't restarted the game yet btw...

[tinat]

I finished the voidbeast last night! Took me ages to get the orchid down, I kept saying "cut hair", but I had to say "use knife".

You need to take the orchid, then just go to the Krabb (giant bug) and he will follow you cos he likes the smell of the orchid. Then you go to that orifice where the voidbeast is sucking in rocks, and you throw the orchid, the krabb follows it and gets sucked into the voidbeast! That's how you get rid of him. Then you can get into master vet's house. In there you will find all the further tips and info on how to kill the leech queen and other stuff you need to do. It ran pretty smoothly for me after that. I can tell you everything you need to do but that so spoils the fun, doesn't it?

[otakutsukonko]

Man, I am just missing something I guess, I hadden't found the mouth till you told me, and now Inside I couldn't figure out what to do with the blender, I put it back together, but I don't have any of the ingredients listed on the paper... and that thing I found in the drawer I'm not sure where to use it... unless it fits in the smaller hole nearby... in hindsight maybe I should have tried it first... I suppose I should go try that soon... but if that doesn't work then I'm still lost... I turned the dial both ways and got the empty perfume bottle, and the series of buttons that don't seem to do anything... Care to lend me a clue as to what those 4 buttons activate? Also there was a diagram of a lever, and there's a lever that doesn't do anything on the void beast, any clue what it does? Also the page says that that 3-pointed figure is a deadly poison to the void beast, and the dirtcloud has that symbol on something(s), so does that mean you have to kill the void beast?

Oh, and during a jump gate transfer I was briefly sent to the moon, at least as the name at the top, before being sent to the begining part just outside the mineshaft... so i had to start over when it happened... So ever been to, and stay at the moon?

[tinat]

Ookkaaaay here come spoilers

The potion for fast hair growth is how you kill the leech queen, you pour it on her and the hairs grow under her and stab her. The "atomizer" (empty perfume bottle") is what you will need to spray the potion on the leech.

The 4 buttons that open valves... just press them all so they all say "unlocked", it's something to do with the "bio-elevator".

Potion ingredients:
You get in through the biogate. On the first screen after the biogate you have to break the horn with the black patches on it. You'll find the fungus spores in it.

Once you've been to the vet's house, read all the papers and opened all the valves by pressing those 4 buttons, you go back out and find all horns that have cracks in them, (there are 4 of them) and say "open horn". The horns will open, and they all have a lever in them. Pull the lever.
Then go to the screen where there's a lone lever that seemingly does nothing. Pull it. A bio-elevator will appear, and you go down in it.

When you go down, as you exit the elevator, in the first scree you need to press a button. You'll get a valve in which you will collect hormones, you'll get the tech cube (you'll need that to get the antidote later, back at the dirtcloud). And you'll get a note which you have to read, which tells you how to find tix eggs.

Then go south, to a chamber where you can milk hormones. You have to pull on the glands hanging from the ceiling. Don't worry if the door shuts, there are three buttons on the wall, you have to push them in some order (give it a few tries) and it will open.

Once you have the hormones you can go back up.

Then go back to where the pool of water is, and you'll find a "tix". Try to catch it and it will run and lead you to its nest. Then you can take its egg. (note that the tix won't appear until have read the note inside the voidbeast!)

When you have all that go back to the house and put it all in the blender and pull its lever. It will automatically put everything into the atomizer.

Then go back and spray the potion on the leech queen. Large hairs will grow and kill her. However as she dies, she will poison the void beast.

You have to go back to the dirt cloud, and put the tech cube (the one you found downstairs inside the void beast) into that gap next to the oval door, and type the combination - first two buttons in the first row, and the last button in the last row. (to be honest, I found this combination in some discussion online, I don't know how you get it in the game, hah)...
It will say the light is now on.
Then go out (east - north) to the "dome interior". Push first the left button then the right. A probe descends and reads your mind. It gives you a formula, made up of some signs. Write them down or take a screen grab.


now go back to the oval door room, and press the long button. It will open a compartment to the south. That's the lab. Enter the formula the probe gave you. It will create the antidote that you need to save the voidbeast. Take it and inject it where the leech queen is.

That's it, you've saved the void beast! Go back to the village, there will be a celebration thank you party for you, and the villagers will give you some valuable items. One of them is the key for that horn with a strange symbol (north off voidbeast's eye).

Go there, put the key in. Another bio-elevator opens. It takes you to the voidbeast's nerve centre, something like that. You have to go there, cos that's where you'll find the letter -K-.

After that, if you like, you can go back to the bar, talk to the phleas some more. One of them will give you a tip to go back to the dirt cloud and use the mind probe again. If you do that, it will give you another combination, and when you type it in it will give you some kinda platinum ball. It's just a "maximum value object" nothing more. So it's up to you if you want it or not.

That should be about it, I've so spoiled the game for you now