Plague of the Moon This is a game by Rebelsoft and Gabe Macchia. Warning: this game is to scary for children under the age of 13 years old. How to download the game: - go to: http://www.abandonware-france.org/ltf-rubriques.php3?page=8&genre=jeux - select the title - select "Télécharger" - select "cliquez ici" - unzip the game after downloading it Start the game with "PLAGUE.EXE". If you do not hear any music in the game, try this: - download VDMSound at one of these places: http://www.abandonia.com/utility/VDMSound%202.1.0.exe http://www.nostalgia8.org/download/util/VDMSound%202_1_0.zip - install the programme - right-click on "PLAGUE.EXE" - select "Run with VDMS" - follow the instructions - if you do not hear any music now, I cannot help you Read "PLAGUE.DOC". Remember the warnings. Start the game. Choose "INTRO" and watch. Then choose "BEGIN GAME". You are Alucarda. Look at Hans, your raven. Take the bottle of tree sap and your mothers staff of the Goatlord. Take the crystal ball from the bookcase. Take the large book in the bookcase. Take the jars of dead insects from the bottom shelf in the bookcase. Open the drawer. Take the dagger. Close the drawer. Look in your inventory and use the dagger to prepare for combat. Go to the right and look at Eumenidas heirloom. Go to the left. Open the door and go through. Go to the bottom-left of the screen to find the lamb. Take the lamb, look in your inventory and use the lamb. Take the pile of wooden logs at the left. Go to the right until you see people running away from you. Take the hay from the road. You should have 14 points. You should be armed with the dagger. You should be carrying: - tree sap - a witch staff - a crystal ball - a book - jars of dead insects - a dagger - eyeball - tongue - hide - bones - 2 jars of blood - logs - hay If so, save the game. Go to the right. Then do not try to enter the city but go left and take the water lily. Go to the right. Then do not go in the direction where you took the hay but go to the far right. Go North. Look at the stake. Go South. Take the Mandrake root growing under the hanging bodies. Go East until you see a rock next to the road. Take it. Go East until you see a feather in the grass under the birds nest. Take the feather. Go North. Go East. Take the rock next to the road. Go East. Stand close to the door and take the pile of logs. Enter the house. Talk and leave. Go West. Go West again. Go South. Go South again. Pick the mushrooms. You should have 26 points. If so, save. Go East. Go East again. Talk and say "The Devil himself sent me here on an errand.". This is the Valley of Shadows. Take a stone. Go West, West, North, North, East, East and enter the house. Talk and say "I am helpless against such a monstrosity.". Leave. Look in your inventory and use the dagger you were given. Go West, West and South. You should now be at the place where you picked up the feather. You should have 82 points. Go West until you see the city again. Then go to where you picked up the hay. Go to the left and enter your house. Close the door. Sleep. Open the door and go through. Go to the right until you are at the place where you took the feather. Save. Go South. Go West, West, West, South, West, South and South. Save. Go East. Kill the man by keeping clicking on him. Go East, East and East. Enter the palace. You can see a spiders web over the coffin. Open the coffin. Kill the living dead by keeping clicking on him. Take the pile of bones from the coffin. Take the spiders web. You can see Hemlock at the right. Take it. Go further into the palace. Look at the crate and then try taking it so you will get the Necronomicon Exmortas. Take some shards from the broken mirrors. Leave the palace through the way you came. Then go West as far as possible. Then go North, North, East, North, East, East and East. Go North. Go West until you can see the city again. Go to your house and enter. Close the door. Save. Sleep. Walk around the house until it is night again and sleep again. Repeat this process until all your health is back. Then open the door and go through. Go to the right, go to the right again and save. Try to enter the city and defeat the guard by keeping clicking on him. Do not enter the city but go back to your house and enter. Close the door. Walk around until it is night again and sleep. Repeat this process until all your health is back. Save. Open the door and go through. Go to the right until you are back at the place where you took the feather. Go North. Go East. Go East. Enter the house and talk. Leave. Save. You completed the two tasks. Go West until you are at the megaliths. Walk around until it is night. When the woman wants to kill you, kill her. Then go East until you are back at the house. Enter. Save. Open the cabinet and take the two books, the vial and the bottle. Then take the knife from the table. Leave the house. Go to the West until you find a church. Enter. Leave and go back to the megaliths. Go South. Go West until you see the city again. Go to your house and enter. Sleep. Go to the cauldron in your house. Save. You should now have four books: - "Ancient Art of War and Magic" - "Necronomicon Exmortas" - "Book of Ancient Incantations" - "Alchemists Guide to Matter Manipulation" Use the cauldron. If you read the books, you should find out you can make all spells except for "Gate of Hell". Create these spells: - "Blood Wind": blood and insects - "Death Branch": wood and hay - "Extract Soul": spiders web and tongue - "Face of Death": bones and snake venom - "Masque of the Druid": tree sap and Mandrake root - "Sence Evil": Hemlock, eye of beast and blood - "Gaseous Form": bird feather and mushrooms - "Invisibility": mirror and water lily - "Invulnerability": hide and rock Save. Walk around until it is night and then sleep. Even if you have all health back, walk around until it is night again and sleep again. Repeat the process a few times. Open the door and go through. Go to the right until you are back at the place where you took the feather. Go North and then go West until you are at the church. Walk around in front of the church until you have spent a night here. Then try to open the doors. If no one answers, walk around again until it is day again and repeat this process until you can talk to the man. Talk to the man and leave. Go East until you are at the megaliths. Go South. Go West until you can see the city again. Go back to your house, enter and close the door. Walk around until it is night again. Then sleep. Open the door. Go through. Go to the right until you can see the city. Save. Cast one of the three "Invisibility" spells. Enter the city. Go to the left. Let yourself be defeated. When you are in the dungeon, take the torture club and the skeleton on the table with spikes. Cast the "Gaseous Form" spell. Go to the right and then enter the nunnery. Save. Walk around here until it is night. Then sleep. Visit the hallway at the left and the hallway at the right. There are six doors. There is a nunin each room: - Justine - Cathleen - Maria - Anne - Christina - Susana Knock on each door and talk to each nun. They will mention Mother Superior and Father Christo. Then walk around until it is night again and sleep again. Save. Cast the "Sence Evil" spell. Go to the left-most door and try to open it. Kill Justine. Go to the right and then leave the nunnery. Then leave the city. Go to your house and enter. Close the door. Save. Use the cauldron. If you read the "Necronomicon Exmortas", you should know you now have the ingredients you need. Create this spell: - "Gate of Hell": dragon blood, bones and instrument of torture Walk around until it is night. Sleep. Walk around again until it is night again and sleep again. Repeat this process until you have all your health back. Save. Open the door and go through. Go to the right until you are at the place where you took the feather. Go North. Go West until you are at the church. Try to enter. You will get the holy dagger. Use it to arm yourself with it. Click on Alucardas head at the bottom-left of the screen. You should now have all health and all three numbers should be 100 %. Go to the East until you are at the megaliths. Go South and go South again. You are now back in the forest. Cast the "Masque of the Druid" spell. Save. Go West, West, West, South, West, South, South, East, East, East, North and East. You should now be at a cemetery. Save. Cast the "Gate of Hell" spell. There are 2 ways to kill the Devil: - using the holy dagger and keeping clicking on him - casting the "Face of Death" spell Kill the Devil in either of the two ways. Your score should now be 500 points, you were not Margarets daughter and you will be remembered as Saint Alucarda. Written by PW.