King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown, Episode 2: A Shield, A Chest, A Mirror, A Throne
000:00 Starting Soon ("Ataraxia" by Aaron Hodges-Boyle)
06:20 Beginning
14:00 Paying the Walnut Price
28:37 Poking Our Head Above the Clouds
40:32 Back on the Ground, Wandering Around
2:06:17 Reverting the Walnut, Coaxing the Goat
2:17:52 Brute Forcing the Hungry Woodcutter
2:27:14 Jumping the Bird
2:35:30 Quest for the Shield
2:46:50 Quest for the Chest
2:59:41 Quest for the Mirror
3:13:49 The Final Test: Crossing a Small Footbridge
3:15:02 Turning in the Quest
3:17:26 Greensleeves, Roll Credits, and Final Thoughts
It's famine and then feast this week!
First, I spend two hours achieving very little as I make repeated efforts to enter the various caves, assail the giant in the clouds, feed the hungry woodcutter and his wife, and coax the stubborn old goat.
Then, I get an idea about the goat that may or may not have been right (I'm not clear on if I could've coaxed the goat even if I stayed in the save where I paid off the troll), but which results in me figuring out the sequence... I think (is the idea that I had to feed the goat once so he knew I'd make good on the carrot, and *then* dangle a second carrot in front of him to get him to follow?). This turns out to have *nothing to do* with beating the game (paying the Troll with *any* of the treasures would cost me nothing but puzzle points!), but it reinvigorates me, leading to...
...a successful brute forcing of the Woodcutter quest, which *also* turns out to play no role in beating the game (I'm guessing the fiddle is an alternate way to overcome the leprechauns, but I already had the four-leafed clover!).
...me remembering that there are three "hard-coded" actions Graham can perform just in time to hop right up on a big bird and fly to the land of the leprechauns!
...me bumbling into the non-violent solution to the giant (and later learning that there *was* a slingshot somewhere, per my initial instincts)!
...me actually using nothing but my own brain to figure out the quest of the mirror!
So, in the last hour of the session, I go from "mapped the area; accomplished nothing" to "completed the quest with an okay-but-not-great number of points"!
Sir Graham is now King Graham, and I'm about to start King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne, one of only two King's Quest games that features a king going on a quest!
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*Intro Song*: "Ataraxia" by Aaron Hodges-Boyle. Aaron has an extensive catalog of "video game music to study or fall asleep to" on his Bandcamp page: https://aaronhodges-boyle.bandcamp.com/
This playthrough was originally broadcast live on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/58dreamstreet
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