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Inherit The Earth Hints

I've found a footprint in the mud.

  • 1 of 16: It seems that none of your party knows what the footprint is.
  • 2 of 16: Some one else may know.
  • 3 of 16: But they won't come to the footprint.
  • 4 of 16: Those berries might help them figure it out.
  • 5 of 16: Pick them up.
  • 6 of 16: But that isn't enough.
  • 7 of 16: So bring the print to them!
  • 8 of 16: You could make a cast.
  • 9 of 16: And casts are made of plaster, a *building* material.
  • 10 of 16: Who builds?
  • 11 of 16: The FERRETS!
  • 12 of 16: Go to the Ferret shop and buy some plaster.
  • 13 of 16: Go back to the sanctuary, and get a bucket from the garden.
  • 14 of 16: Fill the bucket with water, and use the plaster on the bucket.
  • 15 of 16: Go to the footprint _quickly_, and use the plaster on the footprint.
  • 16 of 16: You have made a cast.