WALKTHROUGH FOR SPACE QUEST II Notes: ‘You’ can refer to you as the player or you as Roger Wilco. The parts of the game which are not completely necessary to complete (but are needed either for extra points or information useful later) are written in brackets ([]). N means North, or away from the screen; S means South, or towards the screen; W means West, or to the left; and E means East, or to the right. Each of these directions (N, S, W and E) when used indicates that you have to walk one entire screen in that direction. For example, ‘Walk N, N, E,’ means that you have to walk two full screens to the north and then one full screen to the east. Space Quest II: Vohaul’s Revenge Xenon Orbital Station 4 You will start this game aboard an orbital station sweeping the floor in a spacesuit. A beep will soon emanate from your watch. Press the middle button (the first button tells you your horoscope while the third the time and temperature) and your boss will yell at you to come inside. Walk up the wall and onto the strange circle on the ceiling. You will find yourself inside the station being decontaminated. After this is finished, change into your normal clothes. [Walk to your locker, open it and take your underwear and cubix rube (it’s meant to be a spoonerism).] Walk into the control room and your boss will yell at you some more. Walk onto the striped platform, and then step into the transporter. You will then be transported to the ship you have to clean. Just walk straight into it and you will be beaten up (there is no way to prevent it). Sludge Vohaul has captured you! He will talk about his evil plan to infest your home planet with door-to-door insurance salesmen J and then he will transport you to the surface of Labion. Labion Luckily, the hovercraft that is to take you to the mines will crash and you will survive. Search the creature that broke your fall and take his keycard. Walk up to the broken craft, look inside and press the button to stop the beeping - this is to prevent you from being found. Walk N (if you hear a noise while you are in this screen, either hide behind something or leave the screen and enter it again) and then walk W out the bottom half of the screen (i.e. do not walk on the raised piece of ground). Walk up to one of the groups of pods (but not too close!) and type TAKE SPORE. Walk N and through the ‘maze’ (setting the speed on slow may help you). Take some berries and walk all the way back through it. Walk S (back into the screen with the spores), E and W (walk on the hillock this time). You should come to a mailbox. Walk right up to it, and type INSERT FORM IN SLOT and TAKE OBJECT. You now have the Labion terror beast mating whistle (you will get into a lot of trouble for not paying for this item in SQ3 and 5)! Walk E, then E again out the bottom of the screen. You should now see a man tied to a tree. Untie him. You will be helped later by his kind. Now walk W, then E out the top of the screen. Type RUB BERRIES ON BODY when you come to the lake. Enter the lake and just let yourself be caught and swallowed by the sea monster. After he has spat you out, swim E from the screen where you entered the lake. Swim to the north-eastern quadrant of the screen. Somewhere in this area you should step into a deeper area of the lake. Type HOLD BREATH and follow the tunnel until you surface in a little cave (don’t take too long!). Take the gem, hold your breath again and swim back to the surface of the lake. Swim until you step onto dry land. Walk E. You should find a tree standing beside a large fissure. Climb the tree and it will break and fall across the fissure. Crawl across the log and then walk E again. Walk until you are caught in a trap. Wait until you come to in a hunter’s cage. Type TALK CREATURE twice, and then when he steps up to you, type THROW SPORE. Quickly take the cage key from his paralysed body and open the cage door. Take the rope from the rock and walk N. Now quickly walk W (to avoid being detected and killed). Climb onto the log, and while you are still there, type TIE ROPE TO LOG. Climb down the rope until you are right in front of a monstrous creature. Type SWING ROPE. You have to get onto the ledge on the left of the screen, so you cannot let go of the rope at any time you wish. Wait until the creature has swung his arm at you twice, then let go after swinging past the middle. Walk into the cave and type HOLD GEM. You will need some fancy footwork to get past the invisible rocks lying on the ground, and then you will fall into a hole of some kind. Once outside again, a few strange little men will tell you to follow them. Make sure to take your gem before you walk S. Listen, then walk up to the rock and type WORD. Climb into the hole (da da dum!). Type HOLD GEM IN MOUTH. Now we come to the embarrassing part (for me). I do not remember exactly how to do this next part. All I know is that the exit to the cave is somewhere very down and to the right. I hope this helps; it should not be too difficult to find your way out. After you have found your way out, start swimming again! Swim until you come to a fork. Take the water flow on the right (I only found out which was the right one by trial and error!). Swim E but stay in the water! Type BLOW WHISTLE. The beast cannot get you while you are in the water. Swim W and E, and it should be gone. Before you duck through the rock, take a stone from the pile. Once you have walked N, you should find yourself hiding behind a bush. Now, we can do this in two ways. Let us start with the easier way first. Easy Method: Wait until the guard is walking in such a way so that he is unable to see you, and then quickly hide behind one of the platform’s pillars (preferably the one with the elevator). Type THROW ROCK, wait until the guard has left and then quickly walk into the lift and use it. (You do not need your keycard!) Hard Method: Wait until the guard cannot see you, walk up to the pillar with the lift, use your keycard, get into the lift and use it. (You may not have the time to do this all at once. If not, hide behind a pillar - as in the Easy Method - and then make a break for the lift.) If one had intended to use this method all along (although, how would he?), it would have been completely unnecessary to take the rock. Whichever method you use, you should be able to make it back to the ship. To actually get into the ship, walk to the right (from the point of view of you as the player) of the rear of the ship. Now, this ship’s controls are strange yet simple. First of all, look at the controls to get your bearings. Type PUSH POWER, TURN DIAL, PUSH ASCENT and PULL THROTTLE respectively. Once you have made it into space, type TURN DIAL again and then pull or push the throttle (it does not make a difference). Vohaul should soon appear on your screen, and your controls will soon be useless. Wait until you have landed on his asteroid base and exited your craft. Vohaul’s Asteroid Base Walk E (you can use the other lift, but for the sake of this walkthrough we will use the east lift). There are three levels you can go to: three, four and five (there is no level two!). Let us go to level five first (not that you have to). Level Five: Once you have stepped out of the elevator (let the cameras not concern you), walk E a few times until you come across a screen with a door and a button. Press the button, walk into the janitor’s closet and look inside. Take the basket and the overalls. The overalls will be discarded. Take the lighter which is now available. Leave the closet and carry on walking in the same direction as before until you reach the lift. Keep clear of the bars with the hands on them and do not let the ugly black alien catch you (this should not be too hard since she walks at about the same speed as you) - she will kiss you and horrible things will later happen. Go to level four. Level Four: Carry on walking W until you come to another closet (beware the wicked floor polisher!). Enter the closet, take the glass cutter (you never know!), exit again and walk W. Enter the bathroom (as they like calling it in America) through any door you wish, enter one of the cubicles (I recommend the empty one), take some toilet paper, exit the cubicle and bathroom, and walk W a couple times until you arrive at the lift. Proceed to level three. Level Three: Walk E three times. Enter the closet, take the plunger and skedaddle back to the lift. Finally, back to level one! Once you have left the lift and returned to your ship, walk down (towards you as the player, as it were) from here (following the path) until you enter another hall. Walk E - gasp! Walk W - yikes! Stand against the obstruction to the west until the floor has nearly disappeared beneath you and then type (very quickly) STICK PLUNGER TO WALL (or you can type it earlier and simply press enter at this point). Once the floor is back, type STAND. Now, do not leave this part of the passage! Type the following: PUT PAPER IN BASKET, DROP BASKET and LIGHT PAPER. Walk E twice after you have heard the ‘sizzle’ sounds. You are now in Vohaul’s command room (spooky music here)! Let him talk to you to his heart’s content and then try to wander up the stairs. You will be shrunk, but do not worry - your trust glass cutter is here! Just use it on the glass. Now it is time to put an end to Vohaul’s vile existence! Walk to the vents and climb through. Push the big button (behind the piece of machinery that gets pressed and released) and exit through the vents. Vohaul will start the ‘launch salesmen sequence’ before he dies. Time to vamoose! Walk W, walk up to the switch and pull it. Stand on the keyboard and type TYPE ENLARGE, and return to the jar. [Walk up to Vohaul’s body and search it - you will find four letters literally on him.] Walk up to the flashing monitor and look at it. Type SHSR and then walk up the stairs leading east. Take the mask from the box attached to the wall and wear it. Follow the glass tube all the way to the end (i.e. until you come out into yet another hallway). Now walk W twice, but before you walk W again, set the speed to slow. Here comes the part where you have to be extremely fast. When you reach the part of the passage three W’s from where you exited the glass tunnel, walk (extremely quickly) to the first button and type PUSH BUTTON. When the door opens, walk up to the pod and type ENTER POD. You are now safe; set the speed to normal (or fast, I guess) again. Well done once again! But life is not always so good. Your ship should start warning you that it is running low on the good old O². You will have to use your sleep chamber. Well? Go to it, and find out what happens later in SQ3! The Author and Miscellaneous Name: Barnaby Renard E-mail address: svenslayer@webmail.co.za Great websites for walkthroughs: www.gamesdomain.com and www.the-spoiler.com Great Space Quest website: wiw.org/~jess/roger.html General comments: Recently, I played through SQ1-SQ5 again and I realised what great games they are. I found that most of the walkthroughs were hard to follow and very ambiguous. Some weren’t even completely understandable. I hope that this walkthrough fulfils all the requirements of a well-written document. If it is well-received, perhaps someday I’ll write one for SQ4-6 (if I ever get around to playing no 6).