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FAIRLIGHT: A PRELUDE
WRITTEN BY BO JANGEBORG FOR THE EDGE - 1985
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Complete walkthrough for the C64 version


YOUR MISSION: Find the Book of Light and use its powers to rescue
Segar the Kind Wizard.

HOW TO DO IT:

Part I - The Finding of the Book of Light.

1. Get the Scroll.
2. Get the Crown. It's near the starting point, on the lintel of a
big doorway. You must pile some objects to reach it. A barrel and two
plants will work perfectly.
3. Leave the castle via the back door. Cross the bridge, trying to
avoid the evil monk. You can freeze this enemy by using an hourglass;
there are four of them inside the castle.
4. Go to the caverns and search for the secret door. When you find
it, the word LOCKED will appear on the screen. Select the Crown (it
works as a key), unlock the door and enter the tomb.
5. Don't pay attention to the book on the floor: it's a fake Book of
Light to fool you! Jump on the table and push the corpse till it
falls to the floor. Jump again to push the right board on the surface
of the table; it will discover a hole. Let yourself fall into the
hole.
6. Get the real Book of Light and use the Scroll. You will be
transported to a room near the starting point.

Part II - The Rescue of Segar the (kind?) Wizard.

1. Get the Cross. It's in the Throne Room; to find it, you must push
one of the panels on the left side of the throne platform, and search
in the resultant space- Beware the monk! (Note: There's another cross
somewhere in the castle, but it's perfectly useless: don't bother
trying to get it).
2. Get the Three Potions. The first potion is near the Throne Room,
hidden under a table in the room of the two whirlwinds. Push small
objects from one end of the table till the potion emerges by the
other. The second potion is on a sort of altar guarded by a monk, at
a room near the stairs of the troll. You must pile some objects to
reach it. The third potion is in a secret room near one of the three
main corridors of the castle. It's hidden behind two barrels. You
need only two potions to complete the game. If you get the three
potions, you can use one of them to restore your Life Force.
3. Go to the garden and get a key that's guarded by a soldier; then
use it to open the locked door at the same screen. You will find a
monk upstairs, blocking another door.
4. Drop the Cross -or a potion- in front of the monk, and push it
towards him. The monk will disappear, so you can enter the next room.
5. Kill the other two monks by doing the same. [WARNING: This is what
you have to do, but in my version of Fairlight the potions don't kill
these monks, and therefore you can't complete the game. I don't know
whether this is the result of a faulty copy or a serious bug in the
original code of the C64 conversion. If you have the same problem,
then you should play, as I did, the Spectrum original version by Bo
Jangeborg]
6. Pile some objects to reach the trap door at the ceiling. It will
be LOCKED. To unlock it, select the Book of Light (it works as a key).
7. This is the critical moment. You are now in the prison of the
wizard; he's the frozen guy against the wall. In order to release the
prisoner you just have to drop the book. Before doing this, you
should get the key on the table and stand near the trap door.
8. Drop the book. The kind wizard will be free, and he will try to
kill you! Run like hell to the trap door. You will fall into the room
beneath. (Note: When the wizard is released he becomes an 'evil
monk'. Therefore, you can kill him by using a potion or the Cross -if
you still have one of these objects-. This is not necessary, though:
all you have to do after dropping the book is leaving the room via
the trap door.)

Part III - Escape from the Castle.

1. Take the Crown where you left it and go to the exit door. This
door is at the courtyard, near the starting point. It has been locked
all along the game, but now you have the key! Unlock it and leave the
castle carrying the Crown.
2. Well done! You have completed the Prelude. But remember: The Quest
continues-- [Note: There's no C64 version of Fairlight II- A Trail of
Darkness. That game was first released for the Spectrum, and there's
also an Amstrad conversion.]

Some final remarks:

- The secret door that leads to the Book of Light is at the caverns.
You must find a room with a lonely road flanked by a wall. Examine
the wall till you find the door.
- Don't forget to carry the Crown at the end of the game.
- Good Luck!

Piti wrote this solution during a dark and stormy day in the spring
of 2000.