Thursday, June 13, 2013

Night watch island

The Areas There are 20 areas total. You go through three areas before you hit the Mall Atrium, the central hub on the map. From the Atrium, you can reach the Manager’s Office, Mall Left, and Mall Right. Mall Left gives access to 6 stores, while another 7 stores are accessible from Mall Right. Main Street Parking Lot Security Office Mall Atrium Manager’s Office (reached from the Atrium) Mall Left (left to right): 3rd floor: PrintFax, Giuseppe’s Toys 2nd floor: In the Now Clothing, No Pain No Gain Fitness 1st floor: Crawl Mart Pet Store, JollyGifts Gift Store Mall Right (left to right): 3rd floor: MacGuffin’s Gadgets, Good Deals Electronics, Carnival Costumes 2nd floor: Slugger’s Athletic Keepsakes, Slumbertown Mattresses 1st floor: Sizzle Tanning Salon There’s also various kiosks located around the Mall and are described as needed in the walkthrough below. Overview Night Watch Island is really the Twin Palms Mall with almost the entire adventure taking place inside a suburban shopping center. In order to complete the story on Night Watch Island, you have to catch a cat burglar who’s trying to steal a priceless vintage baseball card. The island is fairly linear, meaning the story takes you from place to place without a lot of options for doing things in a different order. Part One: Get the Job Part Two: Investigating the Alerts Part Three: Find Eddie the Snake Part Four: Capture the Burglar Bonus Quest: Find the Rare Sports Cards One of the big differences between Night Watch Island and the other Poptropica islands is the use of the SMART PHONE. Once you have the phone, it will appear as an icon in the upper right, next to your backpack. In addition to being able to use it (described below when you first get it), you’ll get Calls and Alerts on it. A Call will jump to the middle of your screen, but when you get an Alert, the phone icon will start flashing red and a large “!” will appear next to it and you have to click on it. PART ONE: Get the Job When you jump out of your blimp, you land on Main Street next to a Bananabee’s restaurant (this island’s Common Area). You can only go right, to a line of people waiting outside the Twin Palms Mall. The first guy in line tells you he buys everything MacGuffin makes to sell on the Internet. A redhead with freckles tells you that “this line is nothing, she waited in line for three weeks to buy voice-activated toilet paper.” Everyone else in line tells you how excited they are for the new MacGuffin gadget, even if they don’t know what it does. Heading right, you reach the entrance to the Twin Palms Mall, but its locked. It’s after hours. Head right to the Security Office door and click on the red button and they’ll tell you the Mall doesn’t open until 7am. What to do? Continue right to the Parking Lot where you’ll find Gus, a crying security guard. A clock tells you its 9:02pm. Talk to Gus and he tells you that he’s been fired after 10 years on the job and that the mall isn’t safe, then he walks off right. Go right to the PrintFax car and talk to the kid who tells you that it’s too bad about Gus, but the stress must have been too much for him. Then he drives off. Keep going right until you run into a guy in a Yankees hat, the owner of Slugger’s Store. He suggests that you talk to the mall manager and apply for the job of night-time security guard. Head back to the Mall. On Main street, go back to the Security Office door and click the red button. The manager asks if you’re here for the night watchman job. Then she leads you through the security office and into the Mall Atrium. She needs to test you to see if you’re qualified for the job. First game.SPOT THE DIFFERENCE An image will appear that you have to study. Then another will appear and you have to click on the 5 differences. You can toggle back and forth between the images, so it’s not too challenging. The differences between Photo #1 and #2: Dr. hare t-shirt design (second from right in second row down) turquoise belt on wall disco light yellow star on red t-shirt on rack jeans on floor point a different way Next the manager wants to test your ability to patrol. She tells you to jump on the scooter and patrol the mall looking for trouble. She’s set up robots to test you: In front of the Chinese Food kiosk are two robots, a boy and a girl. Click on them to tell them “no loitering” and shoo them away. Roll right past the escalator to the next area called Mall Right. In Mall Right, roll past the elevator and you’ll come across a robot granny in front of a New Store Coming Soon! sign. Say hello to Granny, then keep rolling right At the escalators, you’ll find a robot boy trying to run up the down escalator, click on him to scold him for running up the escalator. Roll back left to Granny. You’ll see a robot burglar grab Granny’s purse. Quick, get after him! Head left back to the Mall Atrium You’ll run over the robot thief, but the Manager gives you the job. Congrats. The manager gives you a SECURITY GUARD BADGE and sends you to the Security Office to start your shift. Put on the BADGE. Congratulations, you’re now a night watchman! PART TWO: Investigating the Alerts An Alert appears on the huge security screen: “Disturbance in MacGuffin’s!” Before you investigate, check out the office: energy drinks on the console – the manager warned you to avoid these a corkboard – notes from Gus, the paranoid night watchman a map of the mall – a great resource for finding what you need. In this case, MacGuffin’s is on the 3rd floor in Mall Right Exit into the Mall Atrium. Run right to Mall Right. Click on the elevator button. Enter the elevator. When it drops you off at the 2nd floor, hit the elevator up button and re-enter the elevator. You’ll jump off at the 3rd floor. Head right to MacGuffin’s. Enter. Inside MacGuffin’s are all kinds of strange electronics. Head left until you see a “Ringing” coming from a Quake-Master massage chair. Click on the chair to get the SMART PHONE. Answer the incoming call. It’s from Gus! It’s his phone that he lost. He says it’ll come in handy with thieves about. He teaches you the different apps: Security camera – you can see the live feed from security cameras inside stores. In this case, you’re seeing inside MacGuffin’s. Gus tells you to find the mystery gadget that everyone’s talking about. Use your mouse to navigate to the far right and click on the Quick-Charger. Next he says to check out other cameras. Use the arrows at the lower left to toggle through the 12 different cameras (see the list below). Contact list – preset numbers you can call: Home (Gus) – give him a call if anything strange happens Mall Manager – she’s getting ready for bed Print Shop Owner – sitting in his apartment watching the game Slugger’s Owner – wants to know if everything in his store is okay and when was the last time you checked on it? Pet Shop Owner – suggests you check on the coral snake, who gets out of his cage now and again Notes – empty for now Planet Slug Game – “defend Earth by flinging bombs at them with patented slingtech3000 technology”, it’s Angry Birds in space. The trick is to use the “+” sign as a marker. Start by pulling the rocket back exactly to the “+”. Depending on where the plus sign is, you’ll destroy something – either one of the slugs or an asteroid that’s in the way. If you destroyed the asteroid, fire your second rocket from the exact same position to get the top-most slug. If you hit the bottom slug from the “+”, you’ll need to adjust above or below the + to hit the second slug. Takes a little practice, but isn’t too difficult. Power Button – click to return the phone to your backpack Smart Phone Camera LIVE Security Feeds: MacGuffin’s Gadget Store Good Deals Electronics Shop In the Now Clothing Store CrawlMart Pet Shop PrintFax Print Shop Slugger’s Athletic Keepsakes Slumbertown Mattress Store JollyGifts Gift Store Sizzle Tanning Salon Giuseppes Toy Store Carnival Costumes No Pain, No Gain Sports Fitness Store Leave MacGuffin’s and you’ll see your phone has an Alert. What to do when you get an Alert: Click on the flashing phone icon. This first alert is: “Security Alert in Slugger’s Athtletic Keepsakes!” Then click on the “View Camera” button. [Bug - when we first clicked on the View Camera button, the room was supposed to be Slugger’s, but it was actually MacGuffin’s. If you get this, use the arrows at the bottom to scroll through the room a couple of times. Then go back to #6 and it should be fine.] Using the security camera feed, scroll along the bottom of the room until the box is blinking and turns red. You’ll see some upended boxes and a football helmet. At this point, Gus appears to give you the next piece of information. In this case, Gus tells you to call the owner. Go to the Contact List app on the phone and call Slugger’s owner. He’ll tell you that you need to check to see if his Honus Wagner vintage baseball card, the most valuable card in the world, is okay. It’s in a safe behind a statue and the combination is 6723. Go down to the 2nd level and Enter Slugger’s. Go to the the right of the store and click on the Statue that says “Take a picture with the champ!”. You’ll push the statue to the side, revealing the safe. Click on the safe and enter: 6723. The safe will open. Grab the HONUS WAGNER BASEBALL CARD. CALL: Slugger’s Owner tells you he’s relieved it’s still there. Click on the safe again to return the card, then click on the statue to push it back in place. Head back to the Mall Atrium. ALERT: Giuseppe’s Toy Store! On the camera feed, use your mouse to scroll to the top of the screen to the overhead light. When you’ve hit the right spot, Gus will appear and tell you that the light being on is odd and you should check it out. Run left to the area Mall Left. At the elevator, press the button and head up to the 3rd floor. Head left, remember to jump over the space where the escalator is, and enter Giuseppe’s. Inside Giuseppe’s, click on the red TOY BIRD to grab it. On the floor is a ROBOT TOY, grab it too. Seems the robot might have set off the lights. Exit the store and head back to the Atrium. ALERT: Sizzle Tanning Salon! Zero in on the closed tanning bed, the one on the left. Gus will tell you he thinks he knows what’s going on. Run to Sizzle, in Mall Right on the 1st floor. Inside Sizzle, click on the lefthand tanning bed. An overly tan woman says she just wants to stay a few more minutes, even though the mall is closed. Leave Sizzle. ALERT: Good Deal Electronics! When you start to look around with the live feed, the signal is lost! Gus tells you someone is in the mall and doesn’t want you to see. Head to Good Deal on the 3rd floor of Mall Right. Inside Good Deal, head left and your phone will ring. CALL: It’s Gus, who tells you that he could have sworn he just saw someone in the store. To the left is an employee only room, but it’s locked. Exit the store and go back to the Atrium. PART THREE: Find Eddie the Snake ALERT: Crawl Mart! Move the camera to the far right. Gus confirms that the coral snake is missing! Use your phone contact’s list to call the Pet Shop owner, who tells you that the snake, Eddie, might be hiding behind his favorite rock in his glass case. Head to Crawl Mart on the 1st floor of Mall Left. Inside Crawl Mart, go to the snake’s empty terrarium at the far right. CALL: Crawl Mart Owner will tell you that you might be able to lure Eddie out with his favorite snack, just don’t use any of the store’s birds. Exit the store, where you’ll see Eddie, a moment before he takes off. Go after him. Follow him to the following locations where he’s hiding. The item he’s hiding in will be shaking. Click on the item and he’ll take off. MacGuffin’s – a Pocket-Sized Porta-Potty Sizzle Tanning – the right-hand tanning bed Finally, you’ll find him in the Chinese Food kiosk in the Mall Atrium, where he’s ducked down behind the counter. Go into your backpack and use your TOY BIRD. Eddie will eat the bird and take off again. CALL: The owner tells you not to worry about it, he’ll get Eddie in the morning. Head to Mall Right. PART FOUR: Stop the Burglar ALERT: Carnival Costumes! Once again you’ll lose the signal and need to go investigate. Head up to the 3rd floor. Inside Carnival Costumes, go to the far left. There’s the costume for the cop and the one for the robber. Wait, that’s a real robber! He’ll knock you down as he’s escaping. CALL: Gus tells you the thief is probably after the Quick-Charger gadget. He tells you to go to MacGuffin’s and stop moving so the lights turn off. You might be able to ambush the thief. Following his instructions, enter MacGuffin’s. You’ll hide in the corner and the lights will go out. The burglar will sneak up and you’ll surprise him. When you do, he’ll drop a BACK ROOM KEY. Pick it up and go to Good Deal Electronics on the same floor. Go to the locked Employees Only door at the far left of the room. Go into your backpack and use your ROBOT TOY. He’ll keep the light on for you. Now use your KEY and enter the room. Inside the backroom, you’ll see a familiar apartment background (hmm…) and a computer with a note on it. Click on the note and you’ll see it’s a New Store Application: CALL: Gus suggests you check out PrintFax (Mall Left, 3rd floor) As you get to the 3rd floor, the thief comes barrelling out in a security golf cart, rides down the escalators, and heads to the Atrium. CALL: Gus tells you there’s a scooter you can use to chase after him in the Manager’s Office.He sends you a list of possible passwords to the Notes app on your phone. The Manager’s Office is on the 2nd floor of the Mall Atrium. To get to the office, run up the escalators at the right-hand side of the Atrium. The thief will appear and run over you again if you hang out in the Atrium too long. Time to get that scooter! Enter the Manager’s Office. Click the control panel for the scooter. The password is FROST. Unfortunately, the scooter needs to be charged. But how can you possible CHARGE the scooter QUICKLY? Hm. Wait, a minute…get to MacGuffin’s! Inside MacGuffin’s, grab the QUICK-CHARGER. After all, you’re on official business. Go back to the Manager’s Office in the Atrium. Use the QUICK-CHARGER out of your backpack. Now jump on the scooter and exit the office. Take the down escalator to the first floor, go right to Mall Right, then turn around and go back into the Atrium. You’ll find out that the best way to catch the thief is to get behind the up escalator as he’s coming down. So, go to the far left of the Atrium. When he comes down in his golf cart, you’ll take off after him and he’ll crash. But wait, he’s a robot! You’ve been duped. CALL: Gus tells you that you really blew it. Thanks Gus. Go to Mall Right ALERT: PrintFax Print Shop! The live feed shows the thief photocopying something. Get to PrintFax, stat! Inside PrintFax click on the copy machine. Click Menu, then Reprint Last Scan, then the green Print button. It’s a copy of the Honus Wagner baseball card. CALL: Gus wonders where the real card is. Time to return to Slugger’s. In Slugger’s, click on the statue. Uh-oh. CALL: You tell Gus it looks like the safe fell out of the wall into the floor below. He tells you to get the blowtorch from behind the picture in the Manager’s Office to use to cut through the padlock on the New Store. Head to the Office pronto. Inside the Manager’s Office, click on the framed picture of the robot boy over the “employee of the month” sign. Grab the BLOWTORCH. Then head back to Mall Right. Go to the New Store front and equip the BLOWTORCH out of your backpack. Click enter to go into the New Store. Inside the New Store you find the thief. But he escapes up the wall before you can stop him. Jump up the ladder and click “go up” at the top. Air Vent Chase You’re inside an air vent. You see the thief, but you can’t get by a red barrier. Equip your BLOWTORCH again and click on the barrier to torch it. Continue right and then up the ladder until you’re in a room with Ventilation System A and Ventilation System B written on the wall behind you. You’ll start on the right side navigating through System B. Jump right, over the rotating fan, into the vent. Torch the barrier. Head right, drop down, and torch the next barrier. Continue right, up the ladder to the top where it says “danger: elevator/escalator drive mech.” You’ve caught up to the thief, but he takes off again. Use your blowtorch on the barrier above you, then jump up. Travel left across the top of the red barriers then blowtorch the barrier you’re standing on when you’re past the moving machinery below you. Drop down and you’ll catch up with the thief again, who bumps you off the platform. Go back through vent System B you just went through, but this time stop halfway up the ladder. You’ll see a beige barrier on your left. Torch it and step into the darkened vent shaft labelled “B”.halfway up the ladder in Vent System A. A fan will blow you up to the next level where you’ll find a switch with “A/C” on it. Torch it. The thief will tell you it’s not over. Head back to the center Ventilation room and head left. The moving fan will keep you afloat while you torch the beige barrier into the System A vents. Head left then drop down the ladder. At the bottom, you’ll encounter the thief yet again. He’ll run up a ladder. There’s an “A/C” switch on your right and a barrier on your left. Torch the switch, then torch the barrier. Go left and torch the next barrier. Head up the ladder. When you get to the top, torch the barrier and drop down into the room. “Gotcha, you’re trapped now!” you’ll say. AGAIN, the burglar takes off. He jumps down, but you’ve torched the System A “A/C” so he crashes down and drops the Honus Wagner baseball card. You grab it and the two of you crash out of the large vent onto the Mall Atrium’s humungous fountain. Just when you think he’s going to run away again, Eddie comes by on the scooter and knocks you all silly. You all end up on the floor of the Atrium. Gus has called the real cops and they unveil the thief. Of course, it’s Dr. Hare! No, it’s really the print shop owner, as you’ve suspected since you saw his name on the new store application. Right? CONGRATULATIONS! You got the burglar, saved the priceless baseball card, earned the undying respect of Gus and the Manager and and got your island medallion! Bonus Quest: Find the Rare Sports Cards Scattered around the mall are 9 collectible cards – Canada’s best athletes from the ‘60’s! You’ve got to recover them. As you leave Slugger’s on the 2nd floor of Mall Right, follow this order: Slumbertown – Mall Right, 2nd floor – use the sleeping masks cabinet to the left of the exit to jump up to the mattresses on the next level. Use the blue mattress to jump up onto the big purple mattress that’s at an angle. When you reach the floor, you’ll run back and see the card on the upper platform. Sizzle Tanning – Mall Right, 1st floor – click on the control panel of the first tanning bed until its on the lightest setting, simmer. Then click on the tanning bed. Space Time Pizza – Mall Atrium, 2nd level on the right – click on the lump of dough closest to the oven and quickly click on the card behind it. “Saturn” – Mall Atrium, above the fountain – jump up the fountain and its on the middle planet, on one of “Saturn’s” rings Jolly Gifts – Left Mall, 1st floor – click on the exploding confetti can on the checkout counter Crawl Mart – Left Mall, 1st floor – in the piranha tank on the second level In the Now – Left Mall, 2nd floor – click on the large speaker to the left of the “Get in the Now” sign No Pain, No Gain – Left Mall, 2nd floor – far right of the room, the baseball shooter, the card is up on the rack of clothes, click on a baseball bat from the rack, then click on the shooter, now quickly run back and face the shooter just to the right of the rack. Hit the space-bar as the balls come at you and you’ll knock the card down. Finally, leave the mall through the security office, jump up to the top of the mall dome and the last card is on the top.

Zomberry Island

The Areas There are 16 areas on Zomberry Island, plus a bonus quest game that takes place in the sewers. More on that later. Main Street Fort Savini Tunnel Financial District – where you can enter the Berry Delicious Smoothie Shop Berry Delicious Smoothie Shop Shady Side – where you can enter the 147 Park Ave. Apartment Lobby and Dr. Romero’s Bunker 147 Park Ave. Apartment Lobby – where you can enter Dr. Romero’s Apartment, Joe Puddy’s Apartment, and Gamer Guy’s Apartment Dr. Romero’s Apartment Joe Puddy’s Apartment Gamer Guy’s Apartment Dr. Romero’s Bunker – where you can enter the Subway Chinatown – where you can enter the Karaoke Bar Karaoke Bar The Wharf – where you can enter the Survivalist’s Bunker and a Shipping Container Survivalist’s Bunker Shipping Container The Subway Overview In order to complete Zomberry Island, you must travel through the zombie-infested city of Eastman gathering clues as you meet citizens who have strangely not been infected. With clues in hand, you must then find Dr. Romero, deduce what caused the infection, get a sample of the offending item, manufacture a cure, and then use the cure on a horde of angry monsters, thus saving the day. Part One: The Tunnel Part Two: The Subway Part Three: The Apartment Part Four: The Bar Part Five: The Secret Bunker Part Six: The Shipping Container Part Seven: The Cure! Bonus Quest: Save the City (Again) Throughout the island, you’ll be encountering zombies. If they touch you, you’ll run away screaming. It could be worse, but it’s a hassle, so it’s best to just jump over them whenever you see them. (Note that during the Bonus Quest, the stakes are higher: touching a zombie makes you have to start over!) PART ONE: The Tunnel Coming out of your blimp, you land on Main Street, which on this island is a dark city street next to the entrance of a tunnel, barricaded by cars, signs, and anything not nailed down. A woman in a beret is there, Joe Puddy’s wife (from the comic book), and she tells you that her husband couldn’t get out before they collapsed the tunnels. Go left and you meet three police officers who tell you that there are hundreds of zombies on the other side of the tunnel and that no one is allowed through since the island is under quarantine. Talk to the third police officer, the one who tells you he’s “too close to retirement” and the chief will come over and ask if there’s anyone who’s brave enough to tangle with the zombies. That’s YOU! Talk to the chief and you find out that Dr. Romero was working on a cure, but that they lost touch with him. He had been sending video updates from his cell phone. Your mission, therefore, is to find Dr. Romero or his cell phone that contains all of his research. If you accept, he gives you a CLUE NOTEBOOK and a FLASHLIGHT and sends you into the tunnel. Jump on the hood of the school bus and enter the tunnel. Inside Fort Savini Tunnel, the first thing you need to do is go into your backpack and equip your FLASHLIGHT. You’ll have it equipped for the rest of the island. In the tunnel, you’ll be traveling from right to left. Head left and jump up onto the hood of a green truck, where you’ll see your first zombie! There’s a brief cut scene where you’re told that light bothers zombies, but your flashlight isn’t strong enough to affect them. Still, light equals zombie repellant is good to know. Jump over the first zombie, then continue heading left. Keep going left, jumping over zombies as you encounter them, until you reach a white truck with a red flashing light. Next to the truck is a set of CAR KEYS that go to a Dorf Bean car. Grab ‘em. Continue left, jumping over more zombies, until you reach a green car on the back of a flatbed truck. Further left, beyond the green car, is a swarm of zombies that you won’t be able to get by. BUT, this green car is a Dorf Bean car. So, use your CAR KEYS and unlock the car. Inside the car, you’ll see a steering wheel and dashboard. Honk the horn if you want, but what you really need to do is turn on the headlights, by clicking a button on the left. Click “close”. Back outside the car, you’ll see that the lights are shining too high up. Notice the lever at the rear of the green car, on the white truck? Click it to make the flatbed lower the car. Voila, instant zombie scatter. Go left and leave the tunnel. You’ll head into the Financial District. PART TWO: The Subway In the Financial District, you’ll find yourself in front of a large building under construction. It was the building Joe Puddy was working on when the zombie outbreak began. In fact, if you look up and to the left a bit, you can see his lunchbox. You need to get into that lunchbox to get an important item. Directly to your left are a couple of zombies. Go left, jumping over them, until you reach an orange striped construction sawhorse. Jump up on it, then jump up onto the first level of the building. From there, you’ll see a pile of concrete blocks. Using blocks like those that you find on each level as a platform, jump up from level to level until you reach the crane at the upper right of the building. Click to activate the crane. Moving the Steel Girders You’ll notice that each floor of the building is made up of steel girders. In order to reach the lunchbox, you need to remove the steel girder directly above it. Maneuver the crane until it’s on the girder, then click on it. Now that you’ve got the crane, move it to the top of the building where there’s an empty space in the floor. Click again to put the girder into the slot. Click “stop”. Now you can jump down to the lunchbox, but be careful. There’s a zombie there too! Click on the lunchbox. Puddy’s Lunchbox Use your mouse to move aside all of the trash and leftovers in Joe Puddy’s lunchbox until you uncover the SUBWAY PASS. Click to pick it up. Use the lunchbox as a platform to jump up to the right. Jump high to get over the pile of construction material. Back at street level, head left, and go into the Berry Delicious Smoothie Shop. There’s a rack with PAMPHLETS in it. Grab one. There’s a key piece of information in that pamphlet that will come in handy later. Exit the Smoothie Shop and go down into the Subway. There are zombies all over the platform, but they mostly stay to the right side. Jump left to avoid them and head to the subway gate. Use the SUBWAY PASS you just got from Joe’s lunchbox to open the gate. Go left. You’re on the end of the platform, with a dangling LIGHTBULB above you. Jump up and get it, then jump down onto the tracks and run left. You’ll come upon a dark subway train. There are zombies all over the place. At the front of the train, there are rocks on the tracks blocking the wheels. Click on the rocks and the train will roll forward. There’s an open hatch on the top of the train, but you can’t reach it yet. You work in the subway is done for now. Go back right and exit the subway back in the Financial District. PART THREE: The Apartment From the Financial District, run left until you reach an area called Shady Side. If you look in your CLUE HANDBOOK in your backpack, you’ll see that Dr. Romero lives at apartments located at 147 Park Ave., the building right in front of you. The only way to get in is to jump up to the top of the apartment building and enter through the roof. BUT, there are zombies in almost every window and you won’t be able to get past them unless you can turn on the right apartment lights and scare them away. To the right of the entrance is a fuse box. Click on it. The Fuse Box Looking in the fuse box, all of the red lights represent zombies in the windows. All of the green lights mean the light is on in that apartment and there are no zombies. To create the right path to the top of the building, click on the fuses marked 2, 3, 8, and 9, so that they are “on” (they are showing their numbers). All of the others should be “off”. Click “close”. Go to the center staircase and jump directly up from window ledge to window ledge until you reach the top of the building. There’s a door at the left. Enter! You’re in the dingy, dark Apartment Lobby. Head left and you’ll see a door marked #7. You need to jump over the space where the top of the stairs are. It’s Dr. Romero’s apartment! Go left to his computer and click on the yellow sticky note. You’ll get new clues in your CLUE NOTEBOOK — in this case, that the good doctor’s user name is ‘doctor’ and his password is ‘awesome’. Go back to the lobby and head down the stairs. There be zombies here so be on the lookout. The next floor down on the right, you’ll find door #5: Joe Puddy’s apartment. Go in and look to the right. On the top of a tool cabinet is a pair of BOLT CUTTERS. Walk left into his kitchen, where you’ll find a note on his fridge. Click on it to get more important clues for your CLUE NOTEBOOK. Namely, Joe’s Heart Smart diet and what it consisted of. Back to the lobby and head down to the bottom level. At the left you’ll find Gamer Guy’s apartment, door #1. Once inside, Gamer Guy himself will invite you to “come chill”. How hospitable! Especially during a zombie apocalypse. Talk to Gamer Guy and you’ll find out he’s actually pretty happy, since all the zombie destruction means he has tons of time to play video games. In front o Gamer Guy is a stereo speaker. Grab the CAMERA on the top. (You can click on the TV to play a game called “Terror in the Garden”, but you don’t need to. It’s actually good practice for later when you’ll be attacked by a swarm of zombies and will need to shoot at them the same way you shoot at the mutated vegetables in this game, but you don’t need to get a specific score or anything.) Behind Gamer Guy is a trash can. Click on it. Gamer Guy’s Trash Can Like with Joe Puddy’s lunchbox, move the garbage out of the way with your mouse until you find the empty Valley Rain soda bottle. You’ll get more clues in your CLUE NOTEBOOK. In particular, you now know what the ingredients are of Gamer Guy’s soda. Exit Gamer Guy’s apartment, go up the stairs and exit the apartment lobby, then jump down the left side of the building. Head left to Chinatown. You want to go left from here, but there is a mass of zombies in the middle of the road. So, jump up onto the ledge above the doorway, then jump high left to land on the string of paper lanterns hanging across the street. Jump to the left back to street level, then enter the Karaoke Bar. PART FOUR: The Bar Inside the Karaoke Bar, you’ll find another horde of zombies on the dance floor. And they’re not even dancing! Jump up onto the stage to meet the super-funkadelic DJ Saturday Night. There’s goodies to be had on the table — a laptop and some more clues — but Saturday doesn’t want you to touch them unless you can get rid of these zombies. See what happens when yu shine your flashlight at the disco ball directly over the stage? Go right until you can see another disco ball. Shine your flashlight on it, scaring away the zombie in front of the switch for the “disco lights”. Click on the switch and the zombies will scatter. Back up on the stage, Saturday will tell you she doesn’t know why she didn’t turn into a zombie. Then she’ll leave. Click on the slip of paper to add more clues to your CLUE NOTEBOOK. In this case, it’s a receipt for a fruit that Saturday bought from Fred’s Fruits. You’ve got all the clues you need! Now click on the laptop. The Laptop Click on the ‘Find My Phone’ icon in the upper left. Then enter ‘doctor’ for the username and ‘awesome’ as the password. Ah ha! The map shows that Dr. Romero’s phone is in an area underneath Shady Side Apartments and over the subway cars. The door is locked. Click the ‘Unlock” button. Exit the bar, then jump high right back up onto the paper lantern wire. Go into your backpack and use the LIGHTBULB, lighting up all of the lanterns. When the zombies run away, drop down to the open manhole cover and go down. You’ll drop down on top of the subway car. Go down the hatch and head right to the subway car controls. Click on the panel to turn on the power, the click on the lever to make the car go. Once it stops, exit the car and jump straight up the ladder above you to a platform. Go right to the Secret Bunker door. Click on it to enter. PART FIVE: The Secret Bunker Inside Dr. Romero’s Secret Bunker, you’ll see that Romero himself is here, inside a cage, and he’s a zombie! Jump down to the bottom level and head left to the red phone. From your CLUE NOTEBOOK, you’ll see that you have Romero’s phone number. Click on the red phone and dial 555-3946. ROMERO’S CELL PHONE will ring and pop out of the cage. Go grab it as well as the receipt from the Smoothie Shop next to it — the last of the important clues for your CLUE NOTEBOOK. Go into your backpack and use the CELL PHONE. The four videos will show you that the cause of the zombie infestation is pesticides on fruit! But which fruit? Thankfully, you’ve got all the clues you need. Go left to the white board and click on it. From the whiteboard you can access your CLUE NOTEBOOK. Check off all of the fruit that you know Dr. Romero, Joe Puddy, DJ Saturday Night, and Gamer Guy ingested: Joe’s Heart Smart Diet – blueberries, bananas, strawberries DJ Saturday Night’s fruit shopping – raspberries, strawberries, bananas Gamer Guy’s soda – blackberries, cranberries, strawberries Dr. Romero’s smoothie – raspberries, blueberries, cranberries, blackberries Since Joe and Romero turned into zombies and none of the others did, you can see that the culprit is…blueberries! Now you’ve got to figure out what to do about it. Close the white board. A cup of COFFEE will come out of the machine at the left. Don’t ask why, just grab it. Exit the Secret Bunker, by jumping up the fruit crates and jumping up to the left. That exit will take you back to Shady Side. Head left from the construction pit, through Chinatown, until you reach the Wharf. PART SIX: The Shipping Container The gate to the Wharf is locked. Use the BOLT CUTTERS you got from Puddy’s apartment. Enter, then go right. Jump over the zombies, heading right until you find a shipping container with a brown tarp over it. Click to enter. Inside you’ll find that a Survivalist has been living here. For quite awhile as a matter of fact. Talk to the Survivalist and he’ll tell you that he can help you climb the shipping containers by shining a spotlight and shooing away the zombies that block your path. He’ll leave after you talk to him. Exit the container and jump up onto its top, where the Survivalist is with the spotlight. Talk to him again to find out he could sure use a cup of COFFEE. Oh wait, you’ve got one in your backpack! Give it to him and he’ll give a very important KEY CARD. From the container with the Survivalist jump up, first to the left. Basically, just follow where the spotlight is leading you. You’ll jump diagonally left up the containers and eventually back towards the right to a crane. If you fall, just start over, the spotlight will re-start with you. At the crane, use the KEY CARD. You’ll see a computer screen that will ask you which container you want to access. There’s a scroll bar in the middle of the screen. Use it to find the entry for October 22nd that originated from Cleveland (you know that from the Smoothie Shop PAMPHLET that told you blueberries are from Cleveland!) and that contains blueberries. It’s fairly easy to find, since it’s the only entry that will highlight when you mouse over it. Click on it to start the crane. The Cargo Crane Using your mouse, maneuver the crane left and right as the block of shipping containers come at you, trying to get the crane through spaces between the containers. It’s a bit tricky, because it can be difficult to tell if the crane is going to fit, but with a few tries you should be able to get it. Make it safely past enough containers and you’ll reach one that is highlighted. Click on it. Outside the crane, jump down to the green shipping container. Go into your backpack and equip your CAMERA. Then click enter. Inside you’ll find a big fat zombie coming at you. You see the camera icon in the bottom left of the screen? Click on it. The camera flash will momentarily stun the zombie. Jump over him to the big pile of BLUEBERRIES in the center of the room. Click on it to get a sample. Exit the container, head left back to the entrance of the Wharf and use the Subway entrance here. When you reach the subway gate, use your SUBWAY PASS again. Head right until you reach the subway cars. As always, jump over any zombies you encounter. Jump up on the platform to the right of the subway cars. From there, jump up onto the top of the cars. Now you can reach the ladder to get back to Dr. Romero’s Secret Bunker. PART SEVEN: The Cure! Back inside the bunker, you’ll find a computer at the bottom of the room, next to the cage where Romero is. Use the BLUEBERRIES and the computer will process them to find an antidote. This is an old computer, so you need to use your mouse to turn a crank. When you’ve turned it enough times, you’ll get a MEDICAL GUN WITH ANTIDOTE. Use the gun on Dr. Romero to cure him. You’re almost done! Zombies are trying to break in! Jump back up to the entrance and click on the wooden boards to nail them in front of the door. Then go back down and process the antidote again, turning the crank before the zombies bust in. You’ll get another MEDICAL GUN. Shoot the Zombies Just like the “Terror in the Garden” game in the Gamer Guy’s apartment, use your mouse to shoot antidote at the zombies to cure them. The trick to his game is to scroll back and forth to make sure zombies aren’t getting close to you. So once you’ve taken care of a group of zombies, quickly scroll left or right to see if you can find another group. When you’ve cured enough Eastman citizens, you’ve done it. You’ve saved the town! (And yourself!) BONUS QUEST: Save the City (Again) In their infinite wisdom, the leaders of Eastman decide to dump the contaminated blueberries down the drain and into their own sewers. Nothing could go wrong with that, right? Of course it could. Zombified sewer rats carry off the Survivalist. More important, sludge from the infected berries is going to hit the city’s water supply, causing an even worse infestation then the first one. Your job is to rescue the Survivalist and spray antidote into the three city water pumps. From the secret bunker, exit out the left-hand side. At the construction pit, there’s a sewer entrance. Go down. At the bottom of the ladder is a zombie rat. Jump over him and then push the crate out of the way. Then jump down. The sewers are a maze of tunnels and pits with zombified rats, but there’s no time limit. The first water pump is located at the upper right of the room. When you reach it, use your SUPER-STRONG ANTIDOTE. Once you do, a zombie will come out of the dark at you. If he touches you, you’ll have to start over. Quickly, click on the water pump to spray it and chase it away. From the first pump, drop down heading to the bottom right. There you’ll find the third pump. Repeat the process with the SUPER-STRONG ANTIDOTE. The final pump is at the far left of the room on the bottom. The room isn’t too tricky to navigate, it just has a few dead-ends. Once you’ve dosed all three of the water pumps, you’ve saved the city (again)!

Friday, May 24, 2013

charlie and the chocolate factory

The Areas There are 13 areas on the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory map, plus a bonus quest game. Four before you reach the inside of the factory and nine that you travel to from a central Maze Room once you’ve got your golden ticket and you’re inside. Main Street Corner Shop Tenements Factory Courtyard Maze Room (From the Factory Maze Room you can reach:) The Chocolate Room & the Fudge Room The Inventing Room & the Juicing Room The Nut Room & the Incinerator The Television Room & the Bubblegum Room Bonus Quest Room: The Skies Over the Factory Overview In order to complete Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, you must first get into the factory, then you must rescue four children who have gotten themselves into trouble inside the factory’s fantastical machinery. Part One: Find a Golden Ticket Part Two: Rescue Augustus Gloop Part Three: Rescue Mike Teevee Part Four: Rescue Violet Beauregarde Part Five: Rescue Veruca Salt Part Six: Rescue Charlie Bucket Bonus Quest: Rescue the Recipes (That’s a lot of rescuing!) PART ONE: Get Find a Golden Ticket Coming out of your blimp, you land on Main Street, which on this island is an old street in what is probably London. You’re outside the gates of Willy Wonka’s famous chocolate factory. The locals who are milling around outside the gates tell you that some lucky kids are getting to go into the factory tomorrow. The only way to get inside is with a golden ticket, hidden inside Wonka Bars. Four people have found golden tickets and there’s one left. Sounds like you need to find one of those tickets! Just off of Main Street is a Corner Shop. Inside the clerk will tell you to scram unless you have some money. So…go left until you reach the area called the Tenements. In the middle of the area is an old dilapidated shack. Click on the door to knock and you’ll see the Bucket family hiding. They think you’re the debt collector and they don’t want to be found. Head left until you find the row of three pay phones. Click on the far left phone to find a SILVER COIN in the coin return. Guess what? You’ve got some money! Head right and you’ll see Charlie Bucket himself leave the shack and head towards Main Street. Follow him right, then go back into the Corner Shop. Now that you’ve got a SILVER COIN, you can buy Charlie a Wonka Bar. Cuz’ you’re nice like that. Go into your backpack and Use your SILVER COIN to buy a Wonka Bar. Charlie will ask you to open it for him. Using your mouse, click on the top of the wrapper and drag down. Do that again with the foil. What’s that inside? It’s a GOLDEN TICKET! At least Charlie can now get into the factory. Some kids come inside and offer you cash money for the ticket, then block the way out. You tell Charlie you’ll clear a path for him to run away. To get the thugs away from the door, simply walk towards them and push them out of the way. Then exit the shop. Game: Protect Charlie To protect Charlie from the townsfolk, use your mouse to click on the wastebaskets and fruit crates to knock them over as they chase after you. It’s possible to click on the snow on the shop awnings too, but just clicking on the crates and trash cans should do the trick. After you rescue Charlie, you get a reward: a sixth GOLDEN TICKET floats out of the factory! The wind carries it over everyone’s heads before it blows off to the left. Follow it to the Tenements. As the ticket floats around the room, jump after it. At first it will go left, but then it will eventually land at the very top of the room where you can grab it. In the middle of the room is a clothesline that you can bounce off of to jump really high if you’re having trouble reaching the roof level. Hurrah, you’ve now got your own GOLDEN TICKET! Go back to Main Street to the factory gates and click Enter. You’re in the Factory Courtyard where you’ll meet all the obnoxious kids who won their own golden tickets as well as their parents. (You and Charlie seem to be the only likable ones in the bunch.) Wonka himself comes out to greet everyone. Head right to enter the factory. I mentioned that you and Charlie are the only well-behaved kids in the group? Once inside, all of the other kids take off (to get into trouble). Wonka says he’ll take Charlie if you can find the other brats…I mean, kids. But first, he asks you to find his cane. Just head left to pick it up. You won’t need it again, but you can equip it out of your backpack just to look stylish. Head right and then jump down the strange vertical hallway. The Maze Room, the Room Selector, and the Blue Hand You’ve entered the Maze Room, the central hub room in Wonka’s factory. From here you can reach four other rooms: the Chocolate Room, the Inventing Room, the Nut Room, and the Television Room. In the center of the room is a room selector device. Click on one of the four words — Chocolate, Television, Inventing, Nut — to travel to any of the four rooms. Once you’ve clicked on a word, notice the blue hand. It will point either left or right. If you go in that direction you’ll drop down a vertical hallway and land in an identical room to the one you just left. The trick is to look at the blue hand and go in the direction it points. After you’ve passed through the room a certain number of times, you’ll eventually reach the doorway to the room you want to travel to. (Unlike many previous Poptropica Islands, you can do the four rooms in any order.) PART TWO: Rescue Augustus Gloop Click “Chocolate” on the room selector, then head in the direction of the blue hand until you reach the entrance to the Chocolate Room. Enter. Inside you’ll find the rather rotund Augustus Gloop. Very quickly, Gloop’s gluttony gets the better of him and he gets sucked up one of the tubes coming out of the river of chocolate. Rescuing him is pretty straightforward: click on the valves to release more liquid chocolate that pushes Gloop out of the top. First click on the green valve closest to you. Then jump up the pipes to the upper right of the room to click on the second green valve. Finally, cross to the left of the room to click on the final valve rocketing Gloop into the next room. Wonka’s rhyming servants the Oompa-Loompas will escort Mrs. Gloop out. Follow them into the Fudge Room. In the Fudge Room, Gloop starts out inside a vat. Once you release Gloop from the vat a conveyor belt will carry him down to the bottom of the room. BUT you have to make it safe for Gloop by stopping all the dangerous stomping and flame-throwing devices. Here’s the order you need to do it in: click the green valve on the vat to release Gloop drop down one level and run left, jump up to the platform and click the green button to stop the smasher drop down another level, press the blue flame button, then press the red button on the platform to the right (hint: you just need to be able to see the buttons, you don’t have to be on the same level as them) drop down to the bottom level, press the far left orange button, then press the right button, alternating back and forth until Gloop has safely passed through Congratulations, you’ve saved Augustus Gloop! Exit out through the Hallways door. PART THREE: Rescue Mike Teevee Back in the Maze Room, select “Television” and follow the blue hands until you reach the Television Room door. Enter. Mike Teevee gets zapped and ends up inside a giant TV. Head left and talk to the Oompa-Loompa who tells you to adjust the rabbit ear antennae. Click on the antennae to move them. Position the left ear to about the 10 o’clock position (as if they were hands on a clock) and the right one to about the 11 o’clock position. As you move them Mike will come into focus. When it’s clear enough the Oompa Loompa will take off with Mike. Head left and enter the Bubblegum Room. Mike’s been shrunk so you need to stretch him back out. Click on the monitor. Game: Stretch Mike Teevee Position your mouse near the power scale at the upper left of the screen. Start by clicking near the top of the scale to stretch Mike. As he shrinks back down, you’ll see a glowing outline that you’re trying to match. It’s not too tricky, you just have to keep stretching him until his shape roughly matches the outline. Once you do, you’ve saved him! Exit the room back to the Hallways. PART FOUR: Rescue Violet Beauregarde Select “Inventing” on the room selector and follow the blue hand. Enter the Inventing Room. Jump on any of the buttons on the giant gum ball machine to release a gumball. Violet Beauregarde will grab it. Since it’s still in the experimental stage, Violet will turn purple and blow up like a balloon. The Oompa-Loompas will then roll her to the Juicing Room. Follow them. In the Juicing Room, you’ll see how the machinery takes different fruit and smashes it to get the juice. You’ll need to do the same to Violet, but she needs to be in the right location on the juicing conveyor belt. Click on the control device. Now move the colors until they’re in this order: Orange —- Yellow Blue ——- Red One tip is that the final positions are where the arrows are pointing, not the spots off of the square. Once they’re in the correct order, click the button to make it go. The device will squeeze just enough juice out of poor Violet. Another bratty kid saved! Head back to the Maze Room through the Hallways door. PART FIVE: Rescue Veruca Salt Select “Nut” on the room selector and follow the blue hands. Enter the Nut Room. Wonka explains that squirrels are trained to get nuts out of walnuts. Go left and pick up a WALNUT. Veruca Salt and her dad will get thrown down the garbage chute. You’ll jump in after them into the… Incinerator Room! A conveyor belt will slowly carry the dazed Veruca and her father towards the incinerator. You have to shut down all of the generators to turn it off before it’s too late. Follow these steps: Jump down to the bottom of the room. Jump over the trash can. Grab the FIZZY LIFTING DRINK. Then push the trash can left until it blocks the black hole in the wall. That will stop a squirrel from coming out. At the far left is a generator control. Click the lever to stop Generator #1. Jump up to the top of the room to the thing marked A.B.C. Gum Disposal. Click on the chain. A giant ball of gum will drop down. Push it right to clog up the fan. When you see it, grab the WHIPPED CREAM. Go back to the gum dispenser and click the handle again. Push this second ball of gum, rolling it to the right until it drops down in front of another squirrel hole. Click the lever to stop Generator #2. The backup generator will kick in — namely a squirrel on a treadmill. Use your WALNUT to distract him. You’ve done it! You’ve saved Veruca and her dad. To exit the room, stand under the exit tube and use your FIZZY LIFTING DRINK to float up. Click on the exit button. PART SIX: Rescue Charlie Bucket Select “Chocolate” one more time on the room selector and return to the Chocolate Room. Now that you’ve rescued all of the misbehaving kids, Charlie himself gets in trouble. He falls in the chocolate river and is swept away. Wonka gives you a choice of rescuing Charlie or get the keys to the factory. Of course you rescue Charlie! Game: Whipped Cream Platforms The goal is to jump across the room to the right without falling into the chocolate river. The trick is that you need to use your mouse to create platforms to jump on. And you have to move fairly quickly, since the whipped cream platforms will dissolve and some of the objects you land on in the river will sink. There’s no special tip, other than to make the platforms as long as you can to give yourself as much space as possible. Once you reach the end, you’ll find Charlie. Yah, you’ve saved the day! While Charlie gets the keys to the factory, you get a lifetime supply of (imaginary) chocolate and Wonka and Charles’ undying gratitude. BONUS QUEST: Rescue the Recipes Little did you know that three of Wonka’s enemies were busy stealing Wonka’s prized secret recipes while you were rescuing the golden ticket winners. Wonka asks you to get them back. Click on the glass elevator to start the bonus quest game. Game: The Great Glass Elevator Chase The object of this game is to use the exhaust from the glass elevator to knock the three biplanes out of the sky. It takes three direct hits to take down a plane. The trick is that you need to refuel your sparkly exhaust. Oh and you only have 40 seconds to knock down each plane. It’s not too hard, but the trick is to stay on the tails of the planes. Don’t go looking for sparkle fuel, it will eat up too much time. Follow the planes as closely as possible, veering off to grab sparkle fuel that’s close. When the plane turns around, hit the space bar to shoot in front of them and drop the exhaust. Knock all three out of the sky and you win!