                    Flunky - Partial Solution (Don Priestley)



Look below to come very near to solving Don Priestley's royal arcade

adventure, can anyone out there help ????



Here's the (partial)solution.



THE OBJECT OF THE GAME



The plot, as I remember it, had something to do with you being a mad

keen autograph hunter who had taken a job at the

palace in order to get the autographs off of all the royal family.

You're carrying you're autograph book at the start of the

game (it's the red thing with a big A on the front) and you must put it

in front of each royal family member after

completing the task(s) that they set out for you.



LIGHTING THE FIRES



What you're asked to do at the start of the game, simply walk up to the

empty fireplaces while carrying the matchbox

(which you have in your possesion at the start of the game). You start

in a corridor that contains three doors, Andy and

Fergy are behind the first door, Charles and Di the second, and the

Queen the third. You can enter the the first two

doors in any order but you can't leave until you have lit the fires

(there are two fires in both the couple's rooms and one in

the Queens) and completed the tasks given to you. You cannot enter the

Queen's room until you have completed all the

tasks set by her sons and their (ex)wives.

N.B. `Flunky' is a *VERY* fiddly game, and timing is all important.

You're advised to make heavy use of the `Save'

feature on your emulator in order to carry out the tasks set out below.



THE GUARDS



The guards will occasionally try to shoot you after you've completed

certain tasks in the game, if you're in Andy's and

Fergy's apartment simply hide in the secret passage to get rid of the

guard. If you're in Charles and Di's pad you'll need to

outrun the guard or keep avoiding his gun blasts (he'll give up after

about four shots).



ANDY



Wants a boat to play with in the bath, DON'T give him the purple boat as

he'll get the guard to shoot you. Get the remote

control from the table next to Fergy then go to the room at the far

right of the apartment that has a small arrow painted on

the wall, the wall should slide back to reveal a secret panel. Now go

left to the room that has `pictures' of two boats and

a helicopter on the wall, whilst still carrying the remote cotrol, press

fire, the helicopter will take off from wall. Now,

attempt to position the chopper over the small boat on the left side of

the wall, it _should_ pick the boat up and bring it

down to ground level. Pick up the boat and enter the secret passage.

Keep following the passage until you come to a

lever which you should raise to it's highest point (by constantly

pressing the forward key), now go down until you come

to a room with some green `water' in it. Go left and you'll find a room

with a skeleton and an open portcullis in it, go

through it (it will immediatly shut behind you) and you should find a

boat, part submerged in the water, pick it up and put

it in the middle of the green stream. Now walk up to the skeleton and

keep pressing the forward key, you'll start to `yank

it' and the portcullis will begin to rise, yank 13 times and quickly go

back through the portcullis (it's hard but it CAN be

done) then go left to another room with a green stream in it. There's a

bomb in this stream pick it up and pocket if for

later, then put the small boat that you got off the wall in the middle

of the stream it should drive off to the right pushing the

boat that you moved previously to the accesable room on the right. So

get the boat and retrace your steps back to Andy.



FERGY



Has lost her freckles, you'll need the box of red make-up (on the towel

rail next to Andy) and the bomb (mentioned

previously). Put the make-up on the floor opposite Fergy and the bomb as

close as you possibly can to the fire, it should

turn red. Now get the matches and walk up to the bomb as if you were

lighting a fire, the bomb will start to flash, now

quickly drop the bomb in the makeup and put the makeup on the table next

to Fergy, it should explode all over her face.

N.B. This will not work if Fergy is covering her face with the mirror at

the time, you have to judge it perfectly.



CHARLES



Has lost his polo balls which can be found bouncing around in the three

rooms next to him, get the springs (found in same

room as Charles) and bounce the balls back into Chaz's room one by one.

Once you've done this Charles will ask you to

place the balls, put them as near to his horse as possible trying to

keep them roughly central, he'll hit them all out of the

room (he'll occasionally mis-swing but that's just a random factor - be

patient). Finally, Charles will hit all the balls into the

guard, who'll come straight after you, so get ready to run !!



DIANA



Has lost her hair, get the gun from the table next to her and take it to

the room with Charles in, walk to the bottom of the

screen and shoot (stand still whilst holding the gun then press either

the left or right key to fire the gun) at the creature

sitting on the mantle-piece, it should come to life and start flying

round the room. You now need to get this creature to sit

on Di's head, keep shooting it's left wing in order to get it to move

right through the rooms that had previously contained

Charle's balls, then shoot it in the middle of it's body when it's

directly over Di's head. The guard will, unfortunately, try to

shoot you every time you shoot the gun in Di's room so you'll need to be

very careful. If you do it right you should only

have to fire the gun in Di's room twice.



THE QUEEN



Want's her Corgi's back, a sausage can be found in the kitchen (if you

avoid the cook) which the dogs will eat, but

nothing seems to happen when they do so. You seem to be able to get an

almost infinte number of sausages (a new one

appears in the kitchen every time the dogs eat one) but I've fed the

dogs 20 sauasages and nothing appears to happen.

Does anyone have any ideas ????? 



Typed (and solved) by Ian (phian@btinternet.com) Originally displayed

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