RAVENLOFT: STONE PROPHET

        INTRODUCTION
        GENERAL HINTS
        OPENING SEQUENCE
        DESERT
        FORGOTTEN SHRINE OF NEFERTI
        VILLAGE OF MUHAR
        THE OBELISK
        TEMPLE OF SET
        RUINED TEMPLE OF HARVEST
        BURIAL CATACOMBS
        THE ANCIENT SPHINX
        ROYAL BURIAL HALL
        UNDERGROUND TEMPLE OF RA
        PHARAOH'S REST
        END GAME
        COPYRIGHT

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        INTRODUCTION

        This walkthrough assumes you have read the Stone Prophet manual and are
        familiar with operating the game's user interface. You should also have
        a reasonable knowledge of how best to equip your party of characters
        and how and when to use spells.

        This is not a detailed step by step set of instructions. The
        walkthrough does provide general hints and instruct you in what items
        to seek, and in which general locations. This will help you progress
        efficiently without spoiling the general experience of exploration and
        the adventure of finding the unexpected. There will be many buttons to
        push, pressure plates to step on and locks to open. I have rarely
        mentioned these explicitly. And, the walkthrough virtually ignores the
        ever present monsters in every location that you will have to clear out
        before safely exploring most locations. Everywhere you go you will find
        useful scrolls, weapons, health improving items, clothes, armor, etc.
        Collecting and using such items will be essential to progressing, but I
        only mention picking up especially significant items which will be
        absolutely necessary to complete the game successfully.

        Stone Prophet is not a linear game, so this walkthrough is only one
        order of events while many others will also lead to a successful game
        completion.
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        GENERAL HINTS

      1 This walkthrough assumes you either use the quick start party or
        create your own two characters: a magic user/fighter and a
        cleric/ranger.
      2 If you run low on water, clerics should cast the create water
        spell. It is a good idea to pray for the create water spell.
        Alternatively, there is a well to the north of Muhar.
      3 The little round green containers hold a yellow salve which when
        ingested cures poisoned or diseased characters. It is called
        Keoghtams Ointment.
      4 The periapts will slow harmful effects on your party members if you
        keep them in your inventory slots rather than in a sack or chest.
      5 There are several NPCs (non-player characters) available who can join
        you on your adventure. NPCs can be dismissed from the party and can
        be collected later from where you originally found them, provided
        they are not dismissed when dead. You will only be able to dismiss
        an NPC when you invite a fifth character to join your party. Your
        maximum party size is four.
        The Undead Paladin is a special case. She will leave of her own
        accord when you complete her particular quest. So I have left it to
        the end of the game to complete her quest. You can complete her
        quest at any time earlier once you have the skill, knowledge and
        equipment to do so.
        The available NPCs are listed here in my order of preference together
        with the location they can be found.

        <*> Undead Paladin - north-west of Burial Catacombs: Ground Floor
        <*> Jackalwere Cleric - north-center of Sphinx: Hall of Insight
            (V1.1 only)
        <*> Wemic Fighter - north-east of Obelisk in the desert
        <*> Troll Fighter - on the way to the far north of the desert
        <*> Ranger/Cleric - east of Neferti and north west of Set in the
            desert
        <*> Piotra the Thief - south-east of Muhar

      6 I found the cleric spell, Flame Blade, was incredibly useful and I
        used it almost constantly against all monsters. This works if you
        keep your cleric at the front of the party. I also found Summon
        Insects very useful, but they can hurt your party too.
      7 Pyre elementals can be easily killed using Lightning spells or, if
        you are protected against fire, just hack at them with conventional
        weapons.
      8 Use the Improved Detection spell to identify your best weapons.
      9 Magic users will not be able to cast spells if they wear non elven
        armor. There are some powerful cloaks of protection and elven chain
        mail to be found.
     10 Use the teleport tiles to travel quickly from place to place. They
        can usually be found at the entrance or just inside each location.
        Use the teleport spell (once you have found it) to travel quickly
        within a region or between regions. I found the teleport spell
        particularly useful in getting around awkward places.
     11 Wear the Helmet of True Seeing as much as possible once you have
        found it. This will enable you to detect illusionary walls and
        other illusions.
     12 Combine the pieces of the Seals in your inventory by clicking one
        piece on another. You need four pieces to complete each seal.

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OPENING SEQUENCE

Sent to investigate a problem in the hither to unknown land of Har'Akur, your
party of adventurers encounters a dying woman. She speaks of her brother Poitra
and the importance of her dagger to her family. As she dies, you become aware
of a wall of fiery heat trapping you inside the desert of Har'Akar.
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 DESERT

Pick up the dead woman's Vistani dagger. Head north-east to the lone tent, go
inside and speak with the woman (Min Deir). She draws a diagram indicating you
should travel east to a well. Do so and enter the well.
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 FORGOTTEN SHRINE OF NEFERTI

Talk to the injured woman (Sennef) near the entrance. Sennef wants you to take
her to her village of Muhar. Accept her request and she will join your party.
Leave the Forgotten Shrine of Neferti and go north to Muhar.
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 MUHAR

Enter the village. Visit the old beggar, the hostile village leader, the
hostile family, the friendly boy and Piotra. Give Piotra the Vistani dagger and
have him join your party. If you find the attributes of a thief character
useful, you may keep him for a while. However, he is a limited character
compared with the other NPCs. Also visit the woman whose husband has left her
and taken all their supplies. You will find supplies, spells and clues in the
other tents.
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 DESERT

Now you need to get build up some experience and/or get some help before you
can easily cope with exploring further the Forgotten Shrine of Nefert i .
Wander extensively around the desert, killing desert zombies and giant vultures
with regular weapons and dust devils with flame and fire spells. It is probably
better to avoid any other monsters at this stage, so run away if anything else
approaches you. You should also meet some non-player characters (NPCs). Invite
the Troll and/or the Wemic to join you. Find the dying man, north of Muhar, and
take the sack of supplies back to his wife in Muhar.

Now you should return south to the Forgotten Shrine of Neferti.
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FORGOTTEN SHRINE OF NEFERTI

Pick up the key in the north-east area. Get the eye in the south-east area. You
may need to click a button to close the pit so you can get to the eye. Get the
key in the south-west area. Collect the Seal piece in the south-west corner.
Get the second eye in the north-west area. Fall through a pit further north and
collect the Helm of Telepathy. Return up the stairs to the north and push the
button to close the pit. Pick up the Helm of Brilliance. Wear this helm instead
of casting light spells. Return to Min Deir. wear the Helm of Telepathy and
make sure the eyes are in the inventory slots, not inside a container. Talk to
Min Deir. She will join your party. (Drop Piotra if you need to, otherwise drop
the Wemic or Troll.) Go to the Obelisk in the central part of the desert.
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OBELISK

The main objective here is to find all eight scraps of paper (four blue edged
and four red edged) so that you can read the inscription on the first level.
This is a translation of the inscription:

"Hot gales the sands arise. Flesh corrupts and falls away. These are the signs
of their coming. The wrath of Ankhepot burns the land. Who hopes to rule must
lure the evil to him. In the Ancient Burial Hall the Guardian of the Gate of
the Dead awaits. She shall judge them by deeds both good and bad. Her son the
sweet lute did play. This gentle music the ghost awaits. To the priest, the
mystic urn is given. The Temple of Harvest shall be restored. Beyond the Gate
of the Dead, he awaits. The soul of the stranger knows the way. Master of the
Winged Wind. Three signals the whistle sounds, summoning forth the falcon. The
eight tears shall fall. Ra weeps and the stone shatters, a fragment of the seal
revealed. They capture the sun and in a coffer hold the might of Ra. By its
light, the soul and the seal are freed. Two seals, each in four pieces lie.
Piece
to piece, the seals rejoined two gates are opened. Into conflict, the foes are
led: Ankhepot and the other. When falls the wall of Ra, two gates be opened.
The way home."

You must also find a Seal piece on lower level 3. Just east of the center of
this level is a rectangular room, with three entrances from the north, running
east to west. The Seal piece is in this room.

Leave the Obelisk and go to the Temple of Set to the south-east.
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 TEMPLE OF SET

Go upstairs. Get six snake idols from upper level 1. Go upstairs. Get the Helm
of True Seeing from upper level 2. Have one of your party wear it. Get another
three snake idols from upper level 2. Go down to the temple grounds. Use the
snake idols to open the locked rooms. Get the Magic Watering Urn and the Seal
piece.

Leave the Temple of Set and go north-west to the Ruined Temple of Harvest.
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 RUINED TEMPLE OF HARVEST

Get the Mask of Hathor and have a member of your party wear it. Go to the
kitten and speak with him. Take the key, then use it to enter the nearby area.
Take the feline figurine. Use the key to open the doors that run through the
center of the temple northwards to the old man. Talk with him then hand over
the Magic Watering Urn.

The old man should have with him the small child who ran away when you visited
the hostile family in Muhar. Have the child accompany you (drop the Troll or
Wemic and pick him up again later, if necessary) and return to Muhar.
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MUHAR

Visit the hostile family's tent to return the child to her parents. Talk to the
father. Visit the hostile leader's tent. Return to the Ruined Temple of Harvest.
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RUINED TEMPLE OF HARVEST

Return to the area where you met the old man and child. Pick up all the air
pores you can. Press the button on the other side of the wall behind the old
man (to the south) and find the steps to the level below. Offer the feline
statue to the statue with the gray markings. Go through the door that opened
and get the Secret of the Sphinx scroll, the lioness and jackal figurines.
Continue as follows:

Give the jackal to the statue with red markings and get the falcon from the new
area. Give the lioness to the statue with beige markings and get the Coffer of
Ra and large chain from the new area. Give the falcon to the statue with pink
markings and get the scroll of retirement from the new area.

Go to the south-east area, step on two pressure plates to open the far
south-east corner and collect the vulture figurine. Offer the vulture figurine
to the statue with turquoise markings. Have each party member ingest an air
spore then enter the green area. Find the golden statue. Talk to him then use
the Coffer of Ra. Pick up the Seal piece. Collect the scorpion figurine.

Offer the scorpion to the statue with green markings. Ingest more air spores,
if necessary, and before entering this green area.
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 DESERT

Your party should now have enough skill and experience to tackle some of the
more difficult monsters. Leave the Ruined Temple of Harvest and head to the far
north where you will encounter the friendly Troll, if he isn't in your party
already. Have the troll join you in place of Piotra the thief, if needed.

Keep traveling north until you reach the face carved into the wall.
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BURIAL CATACOMBS

Enter the mouth and go down the corridor immediately to the left and find a Fly
spell scroll behind an illusionary wall. Leave through the mouth, then cast
Jump or Fly and enter the eye on the right. Get the Calcite Wishing Cup, then
leave. Jump or fly into the other eye. Get the Gold Circle Key. Leave and enter
the mouth again. Get the Silver Circle Key and Telchen's Lute. Get the Wemic
and Troll suits of armor for the Wemic and Troll if you plan to use them in
your party now or later. Have the Undead Paladin join your party. Go downstairs
and get the Seal piece from the lower excavation. Leave the Burial Catacombs.

Go south to the Sphinx.
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THE ANCIENT SPHINX

Read the scroll 'The Secret of the Sphinx'. Then approach the Sphinx carved
into the wall.

Keep following the stairways until you find the laughing statue. Refer to the
map if necessary. Click the Calcite Wishing Cup on the statue. I recommend
picking fire resistance.

Go downstairs to the Labyrinth of the Magi.

Get the crocodile figurine. Offer it to the statue with gold markings. Get the
ram and frog figurines.

Offer the ram figurine to the statue with purple markings. Offer the frog
figurine to the statue with beige markings and get the scarab figurine.

Give the scarab figurine to the statue with blue markings. Get the Teleport
spell scroll and the gold key with a black gem. Open the doors with the gold
key with the black gem and get the Gold Whistle. Get the Knock spell scroll.
The Knock spell can be used to open most locked doors and will save you having
to find many keys from now on.

Head upstairs to the Hall of Insight. Explore thoroughly. Have the Jackalwere
join your party.

Leave the Ancient Sphinx.
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 DESERT

Find the ghost just north of Muhar and use Telchen's Lute. Talk to the ghost.

Go east to the stone statue of a man and use the large chain. Enter the Royal
Burial Hall.
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ROYAL BURIAL HALL

There are four teleports on each wall, north, south, east and west.

Take the north teleport and get the Iron Circle Key.

Take the south teleport and get the Demon Key.

Take the west teleport and get the Dragon Tooth Key.

Take the east teleport and get the Thorn Key. Make sure you pick up a Seal
piece in the south-center of the north-west quadrant.

Use the Thorn Key to open the lock opposite the stairs. Walk into the picture
of the Guardian of the Dead and enter the world of the dead.

Leave the Burial Hall of the Dead.
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DESERT

Go south until you reach the pair of hands reaching out of the sand. Walk
through the hands going south to the rock. Turn east at the rock and walk
toward another rock. Then turn south and walk into the Temple of Ra.
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 UNDERGROUND TEMPLE OF RA

Find the eight tears of Ra (five on the upper level and three on the lower).
Find the pictures of the hand maidens in the west central area of the Temple
Grounds. Place one tear on each of the pictures of the hand maidens. Get the
Seal piece. You should now have the complete Heirophant Seal. Place the seal in
the circle of the pattern on the wall near Heirophant's mummy. Leave the temple
of Ra.

Travel to Pharaoh's Rest in the far north-east of the desert.
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PHARAOH'S REST

First it is a good idea to become invisible to avoid being attacked by the
Stone Golems. Use the dust of disappearance so you can attack the Stone Golems
without them attacking you. They can be destroyed by +3 weapons. Alternatively,
use the Fly spell to avoid the Stone Golems

Very carefully, as you must do this in exactly the right order, locate seven
pressure plates on the floor. Step on them in this order: south-west, west,
north-west, north-east, north-east-east, east, south-east, or in other words
clockwise starting from 7 o'clock. On the map of Pharaoh's Rest: Tomb of
Ankepot I have numbered the locations of the pressure plates in the order they
should be stepped on.

When you do this correctly, the way north will open. Go north and head
downstairs and fetch the Mallet and Iron Shield Key. Return upstairs.

Return south and go upstairs (the stairs are toward the north-west of the
southern area). Open all the doors with the Iron Shield Key or the Knock spell.
Get the Gold Ankh Key. Wear the Mask of Hathor. Use the Gold Whistle on the
picture of the falcon. Put the heart in the inventory. Return downstairs. Make
your way further north, opening the door to the north with the Gold Ankh Key.
Keep going north until you find a picture of a man on the doors to the north.
Put the heart in the hole in this picture. Get the last Seal piece.

After combining all the Seal pieces, you should now have the complete Ankhepot
Seal in your inventory. Return south and place the Ankhepot Seal on the
circular pattern on the wall. There should now be a one-way teleport between
Pharaoh's Rest and the Temple of Ra. Don't go through the teleport yet.

You need to create a safe and easy between the north area and the one-way
teleport. I recommend opening all the doors in the corridor on the west side by
pushing all the buttons and/or using the Knock spell. Alternatively, preferably
if you are fire resistant, plan on using the east most corridor.

Return to the Gong and hit it with the Mallet. Go south then west or east
toward your safe corridor making sure Ankhepot is following you. He must be
three or four squares behind your party or he will stop following. This will
make it very easy for him to attack and kill your entire party, so you will
probably have to quick save and restore several times during this sequence.
Also you may have to cast Fly if the stone golems get in your way as your
invisibility spell will keep failing. If you lose Ankhepot by getting too far
ahead of him, use a wand of enemy detection to locate him again and retrace
your steps accordingly. Once you have led Ankhepot down the north-south
corridor, head east (or west) then south toward the one-way Temple of Ra
teleport. If you are flying you must come down to the ground before you can
enter the teleport. Make sure Ankhepot is behind you, then enter the teleport.
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UNDERGROUND TEMPLE OF RA

If you were successful, the scene should change to a fight between Ankhepot and
Heirophant. Leave the Temple of Ra as soon as you can.

Return to the Temple of Set.
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TEMPLE OF SET

Go down to the Dungeon of Set via a pit or the stairs down. When you encounter
Senmet, kill him then use the Scroll of Retirement.

The Undead Paladin will leave permanently now, so you can collect one of the
other NPCs to join your party.
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END GAME

Return to the area above the Temple of Ra and go east into the now safe Wall of
Ra. Explore the red zone until you find a red scroll, the Scroll of Return . It
will appear as a yellow dot on the automap. Use the Scroll of Return. Enjoy the
closing sequences!
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This walkthrough is copyright 1995 by Diana Griffiths. All rights reserved.


