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Nancy Drew 17: Legend of the Crystal Skull Hints
What do I do with the things from the eyeball cabinet?
1 of 13: Once you have all the eyes looking the correct directions, the cabinet will open to reveal --
2 of 13: -- a weird metal thing with a huge eye in it and a piece of paper. What does the paper show?
3 of 13: It shows the huge eye going into a skeleton hand, and the hand going onto another strange metal contraption. The skeleton hand you've seen before; it's clearly the same bony shovel you used to find the glass eye behind Charlie Wicker's tomb. But what's that other piece?
4 of 13: It kind of looks like a baroque lightning rod, doesn't it?
5 of 13: Well, that's exactly what it is. It's on the wall between the garden and the cemetery. Now how to get it?
7 of 13: Now you can't just assemble these pieces in inventory. What you need to do is find the place where all of them go, then put them there in the right order.
8 of 13: The lightning rod goes on the bottom. Where have you seen a hole in the ground that this lightning rod might fit?
9 of 13: Go to the buzzard statues in the garden and look at the ground. Perfect!
10 of 13: So put the lightning rod in this hole --
11 of 13: -- then put the skeleton hand in the lightning rod --
