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Shadowgate Hints

How do I open the skull?

  • 1 of 25: This is rather complicated. Don't read all the hints at once.
  • 2 of 25: First, have you read scroll 1 lately?
  • 3 of 25: It talks about a few items.
  • 4 of 25: A couple of which are used for accessing this area.
  • 5 of 25: "The first gives access...
  • 6 of 25: ...the BLADED SUN."
  • 7 of 25: The warlock lord takes this thing very seriously.
  • 8 of 25: He locked it up.
  • 9 of 25: And put two guards on it.
  • 10 of 25: In the left tower.
  • 11 of 25: There was something that told where to place this. I hope you paid attention.
  • 12 of 25: It was in the same place as a spell.
  • 13 of 25: The MOTARI spell, to be exact. If you didn't find it, it was in the library. In the book written in Swahili.
  • 14 of 25: "Where the sword is hung, he must place the key."
  • 15 of 25: I paid no attention the first time. Surprise! I died twice here.
  • 16 of 25: So put it under the sword.
  • 17 of 25: But that doesn't open the door by itself.
  • 18 of 25: There's one more thing you need.
  • 19 of 25: A pathway.
  • 20 of 25: "One to be thy pathway." The wizard told you when you got the HUMANA spell.
  • 21 of 25: The scroll says it is "last invoked".
  • 22 of 25: The PLATINUM HORN.
  • 23 of 25: It, too, is locked in the left tower.
  • 24 of 25: Right under the hellhound's nose.
  • 25 of 25: Blow this after you place the sun, and presto -- the skull opens.