Solution to The Gates of Death

The Gates of Death

This is not the shortest or easiest path; it is more gratifying to face difficult situations and barely succeed. Rather than minimizing risk, this solution includes as many interesting parts as possible, while avoiding sections that are blatantly harmful or provide no useful information. You may need high initial scores; this path assumes favorable dice rolls.

Traveling clothes, backpack, 10 GP 1 Pay the fishwife for a meal Smoke-oil x10, St-5 18 You and Brother Tobyn share some sardines -1 GP St+2 32 Use smoke-oil to cure the Demon Merchant 107 Trust the strange man -1 smoke-oil 410 The man leads you under the bridge 430 Put on the gray robes Thick as Thieves, Pretty as a Picture, Collywobbles, Dragon's Breath 212 Put on Nicodemus' robe 191 You are truly on your own 100 Give the old beggar some of your gold 64 He grips your hand tightly -1 GP, Nostalgia, antidote 95 Put up a fight 113 You have not visited Lord Azzur's palace 196 You have to use your wits and your magic 218 Use the Thick as Thieves potion 29 The Highwaymen all lie dead in the road -Thick as Thieves 262 You loot their possessions Ointment, sausage, sneaky sword 11 Take up Lady Webspinn's offer 61 Tell her the truth 91 Accept the offer of food 141 You gratefully eat St+3 160 You take a look around Silverton St+2 254 Sleep in the stables behind the inn 381 Follow the Hay Thiever St+1 451 Stick your hand in the hole 278 Put your hand back into the hole 5 GP 258 Put your hand back into the hole Pretty as a Picture 5 You have some poison antidote 24 Go back to the stable -Antidote, stiletto 401 You settle back down to sleep 109 Make your own way out of town 159 Knock on the cottage door St-1 116 Offer Fossick your help St+3 135 Jump down into the cellar 293 Use a vial of smoke-oil 438 You see that Blossom is back to normal -1 smoke-oil 458 You choose of Fossick's treasure 10 GP, warhammer, Deathstone 290 Ask about the adventurer 237 Go straight to bed 220 You're soon mounted and ready to leave St+5 243 Steer the horse in another direction 70 Ignore the carriage and carry on riding 180 Help the bull on the small island 158 Use smoke-oil on the Demon Pigs 138 The Lamassu bows its head -1 smoke-oil 80 Ask the Lamassu to fly you to Salamonis 43 Ask about the Invisible City 59 Fly on the Lamassu to the Plain of Bronze 463 Land on the gray column of rock 297 Fly back to Salamonis for more information 323 Urge the Lamassu to press on to Salamonis 354 You thank him and watch him fly off [Exitus, Exodus, Excitus] 227 You go down and head towards Titan Square 239 Talk to the tired man 407 Use a magic potion on the Sniffer Dogs 444 Use the Dragon's Breath potion 85 The dogs are back to normal -Dragon's Breath 188 You see an open area up ahead 2 GP, silver compass, 1 Provision 167 There are three other roads leading off 149 Go down the North Road 128 Go north at the crossroads 108 Go down the street heading west 448 You do not have a trowel 428 Enter the map shop 393 Explain who you are 377 Buy from Sandford Swann 364 Ask about the adventurer who was here 344 Look at what else Swann can offer you 364 Ask to see his equipment for explorers 20 You put on the clothing you've bought -6 GP, swift boots 364 Buy the map of Salamonis 403 A map of Salamonis is of no use to you now 364 Buy the map of Trolltooth Pass 383 Ask about where to find more money -5 GP, map #173 55 Go treasure hunting Silver trowel 73 You go back the way you came 149 Go down the South Road 181 Go south at the crossroads 208 Look at the piece of paper 226 Go back the way you came 181 Go east at the crossroads 298 You have a trowel 318 You desperately dig in the soft earth 25 GP 338 You have a trowel Sk-1 St-2 379 You leg it back to Titan Square 149 Go down the East Road 395 Go east at the crossroads 16 You are wearing swift boots 46 Look inside Lady Webspinn's carriage 58 Get in the carriage 194 Use a magic potion 106 Stay and fight -Collywobbles, -Pretty as a Picture x2 120 Look in the box 140 You must leave the carriage Pretty as a Picture x2, Thick as Thieves, Dragon's Breath, Collywobbles, 3 Provisions 177 Try to drive the carriage 248 Jump from the carriage 267 Explore the surrounding area St-1 282 Go into the fort 1 Provision 390 You come out by the watchtower 408 Go into the watchtower 79 Ask who has spoken 96 Ask Vigo about the Invisible City 111 Vigo has told you all he can 408 Go into the wooden hut 125 Use smoke-oil on the Demon Mother 170 You eat a bowl of stew and leave -1 smoke-oil, St+4 firewater 408 Take the Corpse Road 198 You are wearing the swift boots 306 You see a circle of mighty stones 137 Use smoke-oil on the Demon Gravedigger 117 Throw a clay pot at the Graveyard Imps -1 smoke-oil 48 You have a flask of firewater 76 Try to talk to the Imps -Firewater 142 Ask the king about the adventurer 161 Ask him about the Invisible City 174 Go over to the funeral bier 272 Explain your quest to the king 300 Choose of Hikaz Mandeera's items Bier goggles, bronze star, canteen 312 You examine your items 326 You have the adventurer's bronze star 348 Land on the gray rock 388 You have the bier goggles 404 You walk deeper into the city 21 Explore the lower levels 34 Climb up onto the roof 52 Carry on up to the temple complex St+3 131 Explore the street of small buildings 215 Approach the monkey 230 Tell the monkey who you are 242 Ask the monkey who exactly he is 256 Carry on to the Temple Gardens St+2 275 You come to the Aisle of Guardians 288 Explore the chamber on the north side 301 Leave and walk to the main temple Temple Guard's Axe 387 You look around the Temple of Throff 406 Take the Walkway of Night to the south 38 Drink some water from the pool 12 Go south down the Walkway of Evening St-1 84 Go through the doorway carved with weapons 129 Take a weapon 420 Throw smoke-oil at the creature's feet 371 Go through the door like a book -1 smoke-oil, cookbook 192 Go through the scroll door 110 Ask the wood creature who he is 257 Ask Ludo Hyperion about the book 183 Ask about the Fish with a Thousand Voices 209 Ask about the High Priestess 219 Ask about the Gates of Death 250 Go through the library door 192 Take a closer look at the books 172 Choose one at random 152 You pick one out at random Hither Chaos Angel Died 192 Go through the book door 129 Take the door to the Walkway of Evening 84 Take the smaller doorway 101 Go back out into the Walkway of Evening 84 Go to the Pool of Miseries 38 Drink some water from the pool 12 Go north down the Walkway of Night St-1 406 Take the Walkway of Day to the north 190 Take the Walkway of the Dawn 214 Open the smaller door 228 Try to jump over the portal 238 You are still wearing magical boots 236 You have a book from the Library of Throff 269 Ask Piscis which part you should read -Hither Chaos Angel Died, The Book of the Dead 281 You need to find Sinna the Sly 253 You go back into the Walkway of the Dawn 214 Go through the heavy iron door 295 Go through the door with the sun symbol 308 Fight the hideous creature 368 Ask Castrabel where the High Priestess is 384 Ask Castrabel about the Gates of Death 423 Ask about the temple 440 Return to the dormitory 295 Take the door with the wheat symbol 460 Go through the door with images of cooking 273 Examine the food more closely Cleaver 234 Choose an apple 221 You need to get on with your mission Apple 234 Return to the refectory 460 Go back into the dormitory 295 Go through the heavy iron door 214 Go to the Pool of Mysteries 190 Take the Walkway of Day 406 Make an offering to the goddess Lunara 422 Put an apple in the dish 57 Enter the passage behind the shrine -Apple 81 You have some smoke-oil left 114 Ask Alesstis about Ulrakaah -1 smoke-oil 126 Ask about the enchanted weapons 145 Ask about the Gates of Death 164 Ask about the Holy Man 176 Go back to the Temple of Throff 406 Take the Walkway of Day to the north 190 Take the Walkway of the Dawn 214 Go through the heavy iron door 295 Take the door with the wheat symbol 460 Go through the door with images of cooking 273 Examine the food more closely 234 Pick up the dish of cheese 165 Go through the secret opening 147 Investigate the barred window 134 Crawl through the hole in the passage wall 398 Ask the Holy Man who he is 376 Ask about Ulrakaah 452 Ask about the Gates of Death 439 Ask the Holy Man what magic you will need 402 Choose some of the Holy Man's seeds 389 Return to the tunnel 3 Seeds of Mastery, St-11 3 Seeds of Power, Seed of Knowledge, Seed of Doubt, Seed of Treachery, Seed of Destruction, Seed of Change 147 Return to the kitchen 273 Return to the refectory 460 Investigate the hole in the wall 195 You do not have a bronze-colored jewel 163 Investigate the fresh body Bronze-colored jewel 193 You have a Seed of Knowledge 206 Ask Sinna about the khopesh -Seed of Knowledge 285 Ask Sinna about the book 331 You have The Book of the Dead 217 You will find the answers you seek 122 You must be slain by the Obsidian Giants 409 Grab one of the rings Weakwater 356 Fight the Obsidian Giants unarmed 210 Be defeated by OBSIDIAN GIANTS 6/12 6/12 -Seed of Doubt, -Seed of Treachery, -Seed of Destruction, -Seed of Change 366 Try to pull the black khopesh through -Backpack Sk+1 St+ 397 You are ready to take on Ulrakaah Washed khopesh 457 You ate some seeds before passing [400/800] 168 You must first stop the army 213 Use the power of the Seed of Treachery 244 Try more magic [400/400] 213 Use the Seed of Change 277 Try more magic [200/200] 213 Use the Seed of Destruction 315 Try more magic [200/100] 213 Use the power of the Seed of Doubt 382 Fight the horde [100/50] 453 Battle the DEMON HORDE 10/5 Deathstone 105 You are wearing a pair of magical boots 189 The blade of your khopesh was washed 78 Attack Ulrakaah 224 Kill ULRAKAAH 10/10 Deathstone x2 42 Drop the khopesh in the flames 201 You float back out through the gates 470 You have saved all Titan GP, potions, weapons