GS WorldView, October 1999

Death in the Caribbean
 Hires picture-text adventure from MicroFun (1982, 1983)
 by Philip and Bob Hess
 illustrations by Barbara P. Lawrence



     Since the original documentation for Death in the Caribbean
was not available, I ended up referring to a walkthrough in order
to get past a snag. This doc is intended to supply information
(in hint form) which may have been included in the original game
package. 


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     Having heard local tales of a fabulous hoard of gold and gems
buried by pirates, you decide to turn your Caribbean vacation into
a treasure hunt. Barely two days into your search you discover a
mouldy journal hidden beneath the rotting floor of an abandoned hut.

     Carefully opening the journal, you find a badly rotted scrap
of paper which is mostly illegible. It seems to be a sheet from a
ship's log which was kept in pirate code; and, it looks like the
journal's keeper had cracked the cypher!

....

    CLEVER LAD
... M-CQCA -RW ...

    SO HE SETS ME TREASURE BOX LOCK FOR A MUSICAL 
... I- YC ICZI OC ZACRIBAC F-U --MP --A R OBIKMR- ...

    TO BURY IT
... Z- FBZE KZ ...

    IN FOG YOU COULD CUT WITH A SWORD
... Z- --T E-B M-B-W MBZ LKZY R IL-AW ...

....


     Alas, most of the journal itself has disintegrated; but,
you can make out a few jottings:

Cursed ghost kept stealing my stuff and burying it in the ...
next to the church. Amulet put an end to that!

... picked up from the rockslide. It plugged the hole fine.

Finding the wagon helped. Now I can carry more than four items
plus, of course, whatever I can wear.

... to jump across. Was close but I made it.

... Stupid thing was holding up a sign!

... looked right nice but didn't seem all that magical. Then I
remembered Aladdin and tried ...

... to a tree and the other end to the wagon ...

... that the quicksand made it too dangerous to get it. Seems as
if he was right.

... know the cave entrance is only good as an exit. Got to
get into the place some other way.

... to spill out the wine and let the fog fill it and cork it
again. ... and opened the bottle. Only way past the ...

... a crazy place.  W,N,W,N,N,E,S,E,... was route in. Got out
with W,N,E,S,W,N,...


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     Thanks to Sheree for a walkthough (from Apple II Text Files
at http://www.textfiles.com/apple/WALKTHROUGHS/death.caribbean ).

     Thanks to Asimov for supplying the disk images.
( ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/games/adventure/ )


Rubywand, 1999