Key & Compass presents:
Untold Riches
by Jason Ermer

• Map
• Walkthrough
• Extras
  • Anecdotes, Characters, Inventory
• Thank You to my Patreon supporters
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Map

• Numbered locations indicate where power equipment is and the order to turn them on.

Walkthrough

Beach

> x me. i. x whistle. blow whistle. (It's loud.)

> x boat. search boat. (Nothing there.)

> x tree. climb tree. (You do so, but climb down again.)

> x sand. x sea. x islands. x forest.

> swim. dig sand. (Need a shovel.)

> se.

Tide Pool

> take tube. x it.

> open tube. x map. (Northwest region is prominent.)

> x symbols. x star. (Face looking west at a 7-pointed star.)

> put map in case. close case.

> x crab. x rocks. x pools.

> w.

Darkness

We'll need light, probably that lost beacon the game keeps mentioning.

> listen. xyzzy.

> e. nw.

Beach.

> w.

Instead of going west, you spot the emergency beacon washing up onto the beach.

> take beacon. x it.

> se. w. turn on beacon.

Cavern

> take shovel. x it.

> x gate. x ladder. u.

Lantern Room

> turn off beacon. x ship.

> x lamp. push button. (Nothing.)

> x grease. take it.

> d. turn on beacon.

Cavern

> grease gate. open gate. w.

Workshop

> x mist. x furniture. (desk, stool, cot)

> x desk. x papers.

The papers describe an electrical network of five structures, starting from the water wheel, through three power stations, to the lighthouse.

> open drawer. take gloves. x gloves.

> x stool. x cot.

> x machinery. (wheel, track, crank, panel)

> x wheel. x axle. grease axle.

> x crank. x panel. turn crank. grease crank.

> x track. grease track. turn crank. (First bulb on the panel is lit.)

> w.

Waterfall

> turn off beacon.

> x waterfall. x vines. smell flowers.

> ne.

Rainforest

> x aziz. x key. (Aziz wants a snack.)

> ask aziz about snack. (No, use the syntax "talk to someone about something".)

> talk to aziz about snack. talk to aziz about aziz.

> talk to aziz about key. talk to aziz about professor.

> talk to aziz about me. talk to aziz about cracker. (No, he wants a crab.)

> talk to aziz about crab.

> x tree. x device. (cables go SW and SE.)

> push button. (Nothing happens.)

> x plants. x ferns.

> e.

Beach

> dig sand. (Denied; clues point to digging in the grassy plain instead.)

> se.

Tide Pool

> wear gloves. take crab. eat crab. nw. w.

Rainforest

> give crab to parrot. (Aziz flies off with it, dropping the key.)

> take key. se.

Lighthouse

> x lighthouse. x station. push button. (Monkeys block you.)

> x monkeys. blow whistle. (They flee.)

> push button. (Nothing happens.)

> nw. w.

Grassy Plain

> x head. (It's looking southeast.) x eyes.

> x grass.

> turn head to west. (This was clued by the map symbols.)

> dig ground. x circle.

> move circle. d.

Vault

> x chest. take chest. unlock chest with key. open chest.

> x treasure. g. g. g. g. g. g. g.

> take treasure. u. s.

Waterfall

> x station. push button. (It's on.)

> ne.

Rainforest

> push button. (It's on.)

> se.

Lighthouse

> push button. (It's on.)

> nw. e. se. w. turn on beacon. u.

Lantern Room

> push button.

The nearby ship is Captain Atlee's, and you are rescued and reunited with the professor who expresses delight with his new treasure and tells you about your next adventure.

*** The End ***

The game ends when you've both found the treasure and turned on the lighthouse lantern, in that order. If you try to turn on the lantern before you've found the treasure, you don't actually push the final button. And to "find the treasure", you must have taken it into your possession at least once, but it's not necessary to be holding the treasure when you turn the lantern on. You will lead the professor to where you left the treasure if it's not in your immediate possession at the moment of rescue.

Extras

Anecdotes

This game contains a remarkable number of anecdotal asides about previous adventures you've had with the professor. These are the ones I found:

• (prologue) : In the Tomb of the Screaming Mummies, you had to go back for the professor's keys in a snake pit.
• x me :
• In the Grave of Headless Vikings, swamp gases made you hallucinate.
• In the Stonehenge catacombs, you looked for the Lost Codex of Zethar the Druid.
• You saw the summit of Mount Everest, from a distance.
• x boat : You mention your quest for Mozart's golden artichoke.
• climb tree : You climbed a tree when the professor was captured by the Cannibal Warlord.
• swim : In the Chernobyl exclusion zone, you searched for the Ukrainian Falcon.
• open tube : In the Temple of the Ancient Wizards, the professor was almost eaten by man-eating spiders.
• x map : During the search for the lost city of Tuktuyaaqtuuq, you drove a dog sled.
• (in Darkness) : In the wreck of the Titanic, you searched for Louis XVI's blue diamond necklace.
• xyzzy : In another archipelago, you searched for the Chachapoyan Fertility Idol.
• take shovel : In the tomb of Pharaoh Humnatune, you and the professor were buried alive.

Characters

• Professor Edsger d'Squarius is your guide and mentor. You and he have shared many adventures; see anecdotes.
• Aziz is the professor's parrot. He has the key and he wants a snack.
• Captain Atlee commands the ship that brought you to this island. We don't learn much about her, but she escapes the pirates and rescues you and the professor.
• Some monkeys are outside the Lighthouse and block the power station there.

Inventory

• silver whistle. You start the game with it; you're wearing it. Blow it outside the Lighthouse to scare the monkeys away.
• waterproof case. Found at Tide Pool. The map is inside it.
• map. It's inside the waterproof case. Read the map to know the treasure is in the northwest.
• beacon. It washes up on the Beach when you first attempt to enter the rainforest after entering the dark cave. Turn it on to see inside the dark Cavern.
• shovel. It's in the Cavern. Dig the ground at the Grassy Plain after you've turned the head to the correct direction.
• tub of grease. It's in the Lantern Room. Use it to grease the gate in the Cavern, and to grease the axle, crank, and track in the Workshop.
• gloves. They're in the Workshop's desk drawer. Wear them so you can take the crab.
• brass key. It's in the Rainforest, tied to the parrot Aziz's leg with a ribbon. Give the crab to get the key. Unlock the Vault's chest with the key; the chest contains the treasure.
• crab. It's in the Tide Pool. If you're wearing the gloves, you can take it safely. Give the crab to Aziz in the Rainforest to get the key.
• amazing treasure. It's inside the Vault's chest; unlock the chest with the brass key.

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