partial solution
Sir Loin 3: The Quest for the Holy Quail was written in Quest 4.0 and is © 2008 by CJ592.
This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on the first version of the game.
See also this game at: textadventures.co.uk, IFDB, and IFWiki.
| Cottage (inside) | ||||||||
| go↑↓out | ||||||||
| Cottage (outside) | follow bees→ |
Haunted Grove | ||||||
| | | out↓ | |||||||
| Village Hall | Black- smith | Narrow lane | Forest | |||||
| | | go↑↓out | / | ↓↓↓ | |||||
| Garden centre | — | Market Square | — | Guild's row | Gravel Path or Garden centre or | |||
| | | out↑↓go | go↓↑out | \ | ↓↓↓ | ||||
| Lover's grove | Caravan | Laun- drette | Gravel Path | ←out | Lost Clearing | |||
| | | ||||||||
| Beach | ||||||||
| go↓↑out | ||||||||
| Puppet Theatre interior | ||||||||
| Oblivion | ||||
| take feather↑↓break spirit ball | ||||
| Inner Sanctum | ||||
| | | ||||
| Function room | — | Kitchen | ||
| | | / | | | ||
| Plaza | — | Guest Lounge | ||
| | | ||||
| Mountain peak | ||||
| / | u↑↓d | |||
| Building site | Frozen Plateaux | |||
| Cavern | — | |||
| u↑↓d | ||||
| the Steppes | ||||
| u↑↓d | ||||
| Mountain Pass | ||||
Caravan
>x bed. take blanket. open fridge. take milk. x sink. take bowl. out.
Market Square
>x dragon. read signpost. speak to dragon. x Cyril. speak to Cyril. YES.
>look at broken spectacles. w.
Garden centre
>x pump. x drain. x Simon. speak to Simon. count fingers. 3. speak to Simon. s.
Lover's grove
>x Gnomeo. speak to Gnomeo. YES. n. e. e.
Guild's row
>go to Blacksmith.
Blacksmith
>x anvil. x hammer. x furnace. x bucket. take bucket. x bellows. take bellows.
>x glass cutting device. out. ne.
Narrow lane
>x tree. x Winnie. speak to Winnie. YES. shake tree. speak to Winnie. n.
Cottage (outside)
>look at flowers. take flowers. x bouquet.
>x cat. x barrel. open barrel. take saw.
>x doorstep. use bowl on doorstep. use milk on bowl. x bottle. take bowl.
>go to Cottage (inside).
Cottage (inside)
>look at Winnie. look at oven. look at rosette. read rosette.
>look at piggybank. look at couldron.
>speak to Winnie. look at ring of fire.
>speak to Winnie. YES. YES. (You now have 1 gold coin.)
>speak to Winnie. YES. (She wants honeycomb.)
>speak to Winnie. (You now have the "follow bees" hint.)
>out. s.
Narrow lane
>use saw on tree. use saw on fallen tree. take firewood. x stump. sw. w. w.
Garden centre
Note: The bucket of water may be emptied either by using it on the drain here, or on the sink in the caravan.
>use bucket on drain. turn pump. take bucket of water.
>e. e. go to Blacksmith.
Blacksmith
>use bucket of water on furnace. use firewood on furnace.
>use ring of fire on furnace. look at gold ring. use bellows on furnace.
>use bottle on anvil. pull lever. take shards. look at shards. look at glass disc.
>use glass disc on glass cutting device. look at lenses.
>use lenses on broken spectacles. look at mended spectacles. out. w.
Market Square
>give mended spectacles to Cyril. n.
Village Hall
NOTE: When you use the bellows on the papers, you have a limited amount of real time to grab the ink pot before Cyril and the papers return to the desk.
>look at Cyril. read notice. speak to Cyril. look at desk.
>look at ink pot. look at in box. look at out box. look at papers.
>use bellows on papers. take ink pot. (quickly!)
>use bouquet on ink pot. look at bouquet. look at empty pot. s. w. s.
Lover's grove
>give bouquet to Gnomeo. (You now have 2 gold coins; Gnomeo leaves. You'll see him next at Mountain Pass.)
>n. e. n.
Village Hall
>speak to Cyril. look at dragon pass.
>speak to Cyril. Deaths. s.