Road to India

By Randy Sluganski

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Scene 1--Dream Sequence

• You are in front of the Taj Mahal. You need to solve the floating tile puzzle to enter but cannot do so until you find the missing piece of tile.
• Turn to your right and go forward until you find a flute on the ground.
• Take the flute and return to the front of the Taj Mahal.
• Take the left staircase and go as far as you can on the mezzanine. Take the rope on the floor.
• Now go in the opposite direction until you see an orange tree.
• Put the rope at the base of the tree and use the flute on it.
• Climb the rope and take the orange.
• Go back to where the monkey was and give him the orange. He will drop the tile. Take the tile and return to the front entrance of the Taj Mahal.
• Click on the tile puzzle. The tiles must be rearranged in a logical pattern that you will recognize once you begin to move them around.
• Enter the Taj Mahal.

Scene 2--Outside Your Girlfriend's House in India

• You are in front of your girlfriend's house. Her mother is crying. Speak to her until she leaves.
• Take the stick on the ground and some grass from the flowerpot next to the door.
• Turn left and walk to the end of the street, where you will see a street urchin begging for change.
• Ask him if he has change for an American dollar.
• Turn right and go to the movie theater. Use your change on the gum machine to get a piece of bubble gum.
• Return to your girlfriend's house, to the right of the front entrance is an iron gate. On the other side of the gate is a key you cannot reach.
• Combine the gum and the stick in your inventory and use this new item to get the key.
• Now use the key to open the gate and then enter the yard.
• Go to the center of the yard and take the photo that is on the altar.
• Go back to the street urchin and exhaust all conversations.
• Turn left and go to the end of the street until you reach the cow.
• Give the grass from your inventory to the cow so it will wander off to wherever it is that cows go to congregate.
• Now go to the end of the street until you see the ATM.
• Use your ATM card on the machine to get cash.
• Retrace your steps back up the street until you see a beggar standing at an alleyway.
• Walk past the beggar. Ignore the old beggar for now and go into the alley.
• Take the coat hanger that is mixed in a pile of garbage on the ground.
• Exit the alley and go to the store across the road that has a magazine in the window.
• Click on the car magazine in the window and then click on the store door.
• Try using the coat hanger on the door.
• Go back to the street urchin and, after you have exhausted all conversation, give him your money.
• After he gets the magazine, go talk to the beggar and then follow him into the alley.

Scene 3--Dream Sequence Continued

• You awaken in a jail cell. Click on the bed and take the banana underneath.
• Click on the window bars and then and use the banana on the monkey.
• After the monkey eats the banana, take the peel.
• Click on the window in the jail door and then use the banana peel on the window.
• Click on the bed. The noise will attract the guard who will then slip on the banana peel.
• Talk to the monkey and by clicking in the following order: Eek, Gnee, HooHooHoo, Gnee, WaHeeHee (as if you had to be told that!).
• After the monkey gives you the key, use it to leave the cell.
• Take the machete next to the guard's unconscious body.
• Through the door you will find yourself in a small but easily navigated maze.
• All you need do is sneak behind the guards and knock them out. The trick is to not let them see you approaching.
• You can use your machete on all of the guards except for the one underneath a window. To knock him out, take the vase you will find at the top of one of the stairs, then click on the window above the guard and then click on the guard. One of the guards will have a key; you need to take it.
• Once you have defeated all of the guards, exit the maze by using your key on the locked door.
• You are inside the Taj Mahal; take the map you will find and then exit out the front door to where you began the game.
• Return to the elephant. Use your machete to cut the restraining rope and then climb on the elephant to rumble your way to freedom.

Scene 4--Back Alleys of New Delhi

• After you awaken, exhaust all conversation with the street beggar.
• Turn right and take the right side of the fork. Go to the end of the alley and turn right again.
• Take the business card and the medallion located in the trash on the ground.
• Go back to the fork and take the other path. Walk two screens past the sleeping beggar (you will notice he has your wallet). Look very carefully on the ground around your feet to find a feather. Use the feather on the sleeping beggar and then take your wallet back.
• Go into the alley right past the beggar. There is a large courtyard in front of you. Go to the far right and enter the only door you can open.
• Speak with the elderly woman until you have exhausted all conversation.
• Go back to the dirty mattress where you were sleeping and speak with the street urchin until he asks for money. Give him your money and then speak to him again.
• Go back to the house in the courtyard and take the bill on the desk.
• Exit the courtyard and go to the end of the long alley, where you should have seen a rickshaw driver.
• Give him the bill.

Scene 5--The Thugs' House

• You are outside the walls of a large house.
• Take the rope from the ground.
• Follow the path until you find a branch in the bushes.
• Go forward until you find a crack in the wall.
• Combine the rope and the branch and use them on the crack.
• Once you are on the other side of the wall, walk forward to the tool shed.
• Enter the tool shed and take the screwdriver, the pliers, and the wooden box.
• Leave the shed and go to the back door of the house.
• Use the wooden box on the bottom of the door and then click on the alarm system.
• Use the screwdriver on the alarm system. Then use the pliers on the exposed wires to disarm the alarm.
• Open the dining room window and climb into the house.
• Leave the dining room and go to the library on the same floor.
• Find and click on the puzzle box on the table. All you need to do to solve this puzzle is to click on all of the pieces that will slide out of the box. Once you have clicked on every movable piece, the box will open and you will find a key inside. Leave the library and go up the stairs.
• Turn left at the top of the stairs. Use your key to enter the nearest room.
• Exhaust all conversation with the woman in the room and then its lights out again.

Scene 6--Dream Sequence Continued

• You are inside Kali's temple.
• Take the stained glass windows that are on the walls--there are three on each side.
• Exit this room and go down the stairs.
• Take the door handle.
• Go to the window.
• On this window use only your stained glass windows that have eyes facing forward. When done correctly a beam of light will come through the window and open up a staircase in the middle of the room.
• Go down the staircase into the labyrinth.
• There are two ways find the exit from the labyrinth: you can follow the sound of the wind chimes, or if you wait long enough, a rat will appear. The rat will lead you through the doorways and always disappears through the next doorway that you need to go through. If you do take a wrong door, you must start again from the bottom of the steps. The labyrinth is very short, so don't despair if you need to start over.
• Once you have reached the exit, touch the wall to go through.
• A floating lady is now on the floor trigger in the main room, but the bridge is out.
• Get out of the labyrinth and back into the corridor leading to the main room.
• To the right is a torture room. Enter the room and take the chain from the back of the chair.
• Go back to the main room and while in front of the bridge, combine the door handle and the chain and then use this item on the lever on the other side of the ravine.
• Now that the fire is out you can walk across the bridge.

Scene 7--Trapped in the Thugs' House

• You are trapped inside a closet.
• Look around until you find the box of matches.
• Take the matches. Click on the box to get one match and the use this match on the box.
• Now that you can see, take the rag and the oil.
• Combine the rag and the oil and then use the lit match on the rag.
• Click on the closet lock and then click on both sides to get out of the closet.
• Go up the stairs and then use the screwdriver to remove the door hinges.
• Go to the library door and speak to the woman on the other side.
• Go upstairs and enter the room on the right.
• Take the keys on the desk.
• Now go to the room across the hall.
• Take the CD player from the night table.
• Click on the painting on the wall to reveal a safe.
• Use the key in your inventory on the safe and take the disc that is inside.
• Return to where you were speaking with the woman before you were knocked out.
• Combine the CD player and the disc. Now click the CD player on the woman. Exhaust all conversation with her.

Scene 8--The Temple of Kali; Dreams Become Reality

• From the back of the house, go to the garage.
• Use the key in your inventory to enter the garage.
• Take the remote control starter from the workbench.
• Take the cricket bat from the floor and then exit the garage.
• Go to the garage window. Click on the window and then use the remote control starter on the car.
• After the guard has passed out from the fumes, go into the garage and take his keycard.
• Exit the garage and follow the path past the gazebo until you see a statue of Kali.
• Use the keycard on the statue to disarm the alarm system.
• Go down the secret steps.
• Use the cricket bat on the sleeping guard and then take his machete.
• Go up the stairs the guard was protecting and use the machete on the window.
• Once inside the room, take the middle stairs.
• Go forward until you find your girlfriend on the altar.
• Click on your girlfriend.
• Exhaust all conversations with Dharmesh.