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The Curse of Monkey Island | Part 10

It's time, it's time, it's finale time. With diamond in hand I was finally able to complete a whopping big uncursed diamond ring.

I went back to Elaine to place the ring on her finger and break this curse at last.

Of course, if you might recall, she was winding up to punch Guybrush before the curse took hold and there was no stopping that.

I was debating whether to use this shot because I happened catch it at an awful frame, but I decided if I had to see it, I get to inflict it on you.

He was much more concerned about Elaine though.

Elaine, was understandably very confused, but Guybrush quickly explained she'd been cursed and he fixed it. Everything was going to be fine.

Just fiiiine.

Or not because LeChuck's undead army showed up and so we start Part V.

Kiss of the Spider Monkey.

This part is basically pure exposition. When we come back, Elaine is tied up and Guybrush is locked in a tram sort of cage thingy while LeChuck is ready and waiting to gloat.

We're back. Back to the Carnival of the Damned.

Where Guybrush escaped from in the first place after his failure to find Big Whoop in the previous game.

Big Whoop, as it turns out, is actually a portal to the demon nether world, and LeChuck plans to send Elaine through it to be granted immortality. By being undead, but I mean I guess that's one form. Sure, Elaine might hate him for it, but she'll come to understand the great gift of it all and the dating pool is remarkably small for the undead.

Sure, LeChuck, sure. No Minnie Goodsoup and Charles DeGoulash here.

Anyway, from this point on LeChuck is eager to talk and you can ask him about several things.

So the theme park: sailors are clearly looking for a family-oriented theme park after months at sea. So, they come here and ride the Great Monkey Mountain rollercoaster from the highest peak down into the lava providing a great supply of undead for his army. Fun and resourceful!

There are also more details about how it's run--dynamo monkelectrics. It's monkey powered. Ruthlessly trained monkeys are down in the depths of the place bound to machines of destruction and family entertainment.

And then there's a great deal about how LeChuck got the map to Big Whoop and what he did to Captain Marley--Elaine's grandfather--and his crew who originally found it, all relating back to the first two games, especially the second. But basically in retrieving each of the four pieces of the map that they'd torn up, he killed or destroyed them in various unpleasant ways.

You can also argue about who Elaine loves. Very eloquent. Does so love me. Does not. Does so, does not. Etc. They're very mature.

And you can have enough of his stories and vileness and stop listening.

Well, LeChuck had enough of his childishness (Like you're any better, LeChuck?) and came up with a fate befitting Guybrush's behaviour.

LeChuck and Elaine vanish. Guybrush seemingly does, but you still hear him and still have control. The door was unlocked so out I sent him.

La la la it's Guybrush the kid.

He walks off to another part of the theme park and knows he needs to rescue Elaine but it's hard to think. Head...foggy. He needs to clear his head.

It was time to get down to business. I didn't have a whole lot of my inventory left anymore, down to a little less than one screen's worth.

Though Murray's pasty arm remained.

Most of my stuff wasn't going to be useful except: the recipe book for a reminder of the Head-B-Clear recipe, after all he needs a clear head now, so that's what we gotta make, and the pan and the shaving cream--those will be useful.

I needed three ingredients: egg, the hair of the dog that bit ya, and pepper. Two of those could be found on this screen.

I also had people to talk to here: Dinghy Dog, Wharf Rat and... Murray on the shelf!

Naturally, I spoke with Murray first. "Are you dead yet? You look different."

He was pleased to find out Guybrush was also cursed too; they could join their cursed forces and rule the world together. Turned down again, sadly, I mean fortunately. He was still grossed out by his pasted up arm too.

Dinghy Dog runs a guessing game to guess the weight or age of the kid playing. If he can't guess one of them the player gets a prize. The weight option fails because he can guess that correctly.

Age however, we had a little advantage. He guessed "a fearsome little buccaneer" like him must be seven years old. Which of course is not correct and Guybrush was able to prove it with his SCUMM Actors Guild Membership Card. So I was able to pick a prize. Murray so wanted to be picked. I even tried--I always do--but Guybrush realized that would be a bad idea and Murray will just keep chattering while and demanding and pleading to be picked while you look at other prizes.

The only option that can be taken is an anchor. Murray was very offended by that and sulks for a while with more comments until going quiet. I'm sorry, Murray. I'd have taken you in a heartbeat if it let me.

Then I had a chat with Wharf Rat who runs "Blow the Man Down." A lemon meringue pie is fired from the cannon at the guy in the window. You can ask what meringue is and get told it's whipped from egg whites or something. And he grumbles about Dinghy Dog: "I'm not allowed to associate with His Highness The Great and Mighty Dinghy Dog" and also gives a clue about not messing him or regretting it.

So of course I was gonna mess with Dinghy Dog by continually prodding him until he lost patience and bit Guybrush.

And Guybrush snagged some hair off his suit. One ingredient down.

As for the egg, I needed a way to get one of the pies and the Wharf Rat wouldn't just let me take one.

So, I needed to get rid of the guy who was the target for the cannon. I filled my pie plate with the shaving cream and stuck the anchor in there and then added the whole thing to the pie stack. In the easier mode you can just add the anchor to the pie stack.

Then ask the Wharf Rat to fire the cannon and threaten him with the prospect of LeChuck finding out he's got unhappy kids running around here and that got him.

The poor window guy got knocked right out.

But that left the place empty for Guybrush to go in and taunt the Wharf Rat until he fired a pie at me too.

Egg acquired.

I just needed the pepper which is in the next screen where there's a guy selling snowcones. All manner of flavours of snowcones.

The list goes on for an impressive length with a lot of rhyming. I kiiind of wish I had it memorized just for kicks. It can be quite rhythmic!

He also had a pepper shaker on the counter which I could simply grab.

I ordered a regular snowcone and added all the ingredients on top of it. Delicious... It made a disgusting snowcone, but eating it, I'm sorry Guybrush, worked and he was restored to his clear-headed adult self.

Which brought me to the sixth and final part of the game.

Guybrush Kicks Butt Once Again.

This final part takes place on the roller coaster. It passes by four different diorama areas, 3 of which are based on past events of the series. You have a chance to hop out of the coaster to look around each one and get needed items. Periodically LeChuck will show up and there's a brief bit of conversation before he winds up with some fire to shoot at you and Guybrush leaps back into the passing coaster.

Through those bits of conversation, you find out Elaine got away and must have fiddled with the controls, and therefore the coaster keeps circling instead of plunging Guybrush into the lava stream. Go Elaine go.

So sections:

Monkey Island:

A little diorama of Herman Toothrot, the hung first mate, and the three-headed monkey. This is, of course, from The Secret of Monkey Island. A piece of rope can be grabbed here.

Captain Marley, his crew and their ship.

This was also one of the times I ran into LeChuck. Or he ran into me. Before that I was able to snag a keg of rum and do a little examining of things.

LeChuck's torture chamber in reference to Monkey Island 2.

Guybrush thought there was an animatronic Wally, only to realize it really is Wally. The poor guy really can't catch a break, but Guybrush apologized for leaving him to blow up in LeChuck's castle last time, and he promises this time he'll come back for him. As soon he defeats LeChuck, saves Elaine, sets all the monkeys free... and rides the Madly Rotating Buccaneer anyway.

I was also able to flip open the lantern and grab some oil.

And finally a snowy area, featuring a path leading up to "every sailor's worst nightmare. The 'Giant, Snowy Ape.'

This is the spot I ultimately needed, specifically for the Snowy Ape's arm that forms a perfect holding spot.

I had to set a trap for LeChuck. Use oil on the rope and attach the rope to the keg of rum. Put the whole thing in the Ape's arm and the oil-soaked rope would dangle down to the lower area. Then I had to wait around for LeChuck who always feels like he takes longer to show up when I actually want him.

I remember getting kind of stuck in this part the first time and needing a bit of a nudge from dad.

But while he's winding up his fire launching, blow some pepper at him to make him sneeze. Sneezey fire plus oiled rope is a fun combination featuring a burst of excitement!

Guybrush got out of there. LeChuck was less lucky.

Kaboom.

And what's a theme park without fireworks?

And LeChuck is defeated. Again. Eat explosion, demon zombie pirate.

Then we fade out to Guybrush and Elaine, newly married and setting sail.

Kind of love the suit look for Guybrush I have to admit. Okay, it's the long tail coat. I like 'em long.

Sail away, waved off by my former crew, a chicken and Lemonhead. The crew may have mutinied but it's nice they remain friendly. Or maybe they're glad to see him gone... I'll go with friendly.

And of course there's a final word from Murray:

He SHALL RETURN. (and spoiler alert: he does.)

Then credits with a bit more grumping from Murray at the start.

And finally a last scene sometime in the future with narration from a kid and his dad enjoying the theme park, but his dad tells of a story of the man who built this place being buried here and it's said his frozen body remains somewhere in the tunnels beneath the amusement park. Then it ends with a brief ominous bit of LeChuck's theme.

The End.

Happy end. Ominous end. Gotta leave room for more!

Final Words

This would normally be a final thoughts area, but I've played the game before. Many, many, times.

I will say, this last chunk of game--part 5 and 6--are my least favourite of the game. It's not that I dislike them or anything so extreme, but once I hit the point where I'm ready to uncurse Elaine I always feel a bit of a letdown after everything else. They had run into budget issues and such by the end and some stuff got cut and I feel like that can be felt. I've always thought the ending itself felt pretty abrupt too, but honestly I feel that for most of the series.

That aside, it's just such a comfort food game. I didn't remember to try as much or go for lesser used conversation options as much as I originally intended, so maybe, just maybe there are still a few tidbits of newness or much less familiar bits in there somewhere...for the inevitable future play.

Thank you for reading! If this was your first experience with the game... maybe not the best first go--go play it! If you've played it before, replay it! Play it!

I hope you enjoyed even with the gaps, or if you're someone in the future reading this I hope you enjoyed, gap-free!

Farewell for now Guybrush.

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thewatercolours · 1 year

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I don't think I appreciated the intricacies of variation that exist in this song until I watched the notes play out on the screen in front of me, with no lyrics to distract me. Well done, Michael Land! This is addictive listening.

Blast you, @captmickey - these fics are getting me back in Curse appreciation mode.

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Find the Word WIP Game

Tagged by @rosieposiepuddingnpie <3

My words: draw, new, part, chance, narrow

Draw - from Road to Ruin

“They’re Hales!” she shouts. She draws her bow and points it down at him. The tip of the arrow drips with a mixture of wolfsbane, a drop falls to his bare stomach exposed by his shirt riding up and burns his skin like acid. “They’re Hales!”

New - from Colour Me In

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Part - from Colour Me In

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Chance - from Golden Boy

He pushes himself up and starts again. His lungs burn from the cold air but he doesn’t give his body a chance to breathe because if he does, he’ll start to think.

Narrow - from Golden Boy

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tagging @myulalie @ohhalefire @exlibrisfangirl (for if you get bored while you’re recovering). your words are: burn, rough, sense, drain, flush

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for-her-isisanea · 10 months

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A sketch i did of a CMI Fairlight, this is almost a couple years old-- i've been sitting on it for quite a while.

maybe i'll just post my work here instead of my main blog because i just feel so nervous posting anything after being so dormant for years.

buuuuuuuuuut i've gotta get the ball rolling, so !

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swanseauniversallyspeaking · 10 days

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arcanetrivia · 8 months

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theadventurerslog · 2 months

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The Curse of Monkey Island | Part 9

Long gap here, sorry. Last time I ended, it was time to explore a new area of the island to find out what was going on with the volcano and generally get more stuff I'd need, and right away I was met with a feast, but no people.

I was able to grab a mug, auger and a big block of tofu: what every adventurer needs.

Then I carried on through the arch toward the volcano to meet a man in a lemon mask.

It's Lemon Head.

He was part of the Monkey Island cannibals who Guybrush had met back in The Secret of Monkey Island. They moved away after the carnival settled onto the island. Constant noise and tourists, go to where a cannibal felt unsafe to walk alone. And pretty sure the midway games were rigged. So they moved here.

They also don't eat people anymore.

They underwent a 'paradigm shift in their belief system' several years back. There are several replies to this but one that is always irresistible.

"Pair of dimes?"

The associated protesting text changes every time you hover over that option. How could you not choose it?

Aside from irritating Lemonhead--always fun minus the threats to eat me--the main point of interest here is the volcano. When they first arrived the volcano, Mt. Acidophilus, was regularly erupting, belching up lava, gross. They tried all kinds of sacrifices to try to appease Sherman the Volcano God until one day they tried brie and thing got real bad. Sherman is lactose intolerant and seems to have a very touchy stomach in general--fatty foods can give terrible indigestion too. So they have him on a strict diet of fruits and vegetables.

Another ritual offering was about to happen but they were waiting for an emissary from another village who is very late now, but had better be a vegetarian and non-cannibals are forbidden from witnessing it.

I needed a way to see their ceremony and they were waiting for their vegetarian emissary.

Tofu time!

The chisel or the auger can be used on the block of tofu to make a mask, which you then put on for the glory of a giant block of tofu over Guybrush's head.

"Ick."

But it worked and I was allowed into the ceremony.

"God of the Volcano who resides in Mount Acidophilous... Accept this sacrifice we make unto you... in the form of flesh with high amounts of fiber and wholesome cellulose... free of all fat and trans-fatty acids... so that it might nourish you and bring your favor upon our humble village... and not upset nor agitate your Ulcertive Caldera... Okay boys... toss 'im in! You've been a wonderful audience! Thank you and good night!"

Then they hang out roasting marshmallows and I was free to do things.

I'm sorry for this, Sherman. I tossed a bit of the nacho cheese into the volcano.

"You fool! You've given cheese to a lactose intolerant volcano god! Do you know what that means? You've brought about the Coming of the Divine Dysentery!"

Yeah... as a fellow in lactose intolerance, I'm sorry, buddy, but you gotta do what you gotta do.

The volcano erupted.

And that got the lava flowing under the barbecue at the hotel.

And now there's just lava running through its paths on Blood Island and it is cool looking!

Goodsoup, was of course thrilled and the tourists will come pouring back.

It was time for me to get that tar replacement for Haggis.

I dumped my cheese into the pot and once melted it looked like just like yellow tar. Guybrush dragged it back and Haggis approved: "The consistency of tar... but with a tangy pepper taste!"

And I got the slippery greasy hand lotion.

We were told by Goodsoup that there used to be a ferry that crossed over to Skull Island where a diamond could be found, but it stopped coming after the lighthouse went out.

I had the mirror I took from the hotel, so I went back to the lighthouse to put that back in place.

I still needed a light source.

I'm not sure if I remembered to mention getting the tip jar from the hotel, but it was something I was able to grab once Goodsoup was cure of his hangover--Guybrush was totally taking it to fill it with tips. There were also fireflies in the clearing where Elaine is, so that's light, but they were going to enter an empty jar.

There was a barrel of sugar water at the windmill. The door was still locked. Umbrella to the rescue.

I used it to hook onto one of the windmill blades and was carried to the top where the barrel was. I filled the jar with sugar water and was able to walk back down.

With the jar of sugar water I was able to catch some fireflies.

There are two mistakes that can be made with the fireflies: no putting the lid on the jar, so they simply leave again, or not poking holes in the lid (chisel again! or auger) before putting it on and then they die...

While I was there anyway, I used the hand lotion to get the ring off Elaine's finger. The cursed ring explodes into nothing and now I just needed the complete diamond ring.

I brought the light back to the lighhouse and with a mirror and fireflies the restoration was complete.

I returned to the little beach bay area to meet The Lost Welshman.

He was, well, lost out in the mist and refused to make a return trip to Skull Island without a compass.

If a reminder is needed the encyclopedia was one of the items that was kept from Puerto Pollo with the still legible entry:

"A compass is a magnetized bit of metal, floating in a solution."

I needed to make a compass which I had all the materials for:

Fill cup with the sea water Use Big Whoop magnet with the needle to magnetize it Stick the magnetized needle in the cork Put the needle cork in the mug o' water.

One working compass and good enough for The Lost Welshman.

He sailed me over to the dread Skull Island...

"Even the bravest of men must dread the horror of this place. Steel your courage boy! Now! Before you gaze upon the terrible, horrible face of... SKULL ISLAND!"

A very dramatic scene to which Guybrush can only exclaim, "That's a duck! It looks like a great big, enormous duck! It should be called Duck Island!"

The Lost Welshman says you need to squint and turn your head a bit and oohhh so scary.

Guybrush: "If you squint and turn your head it looks like a bunny."

This exchange lives in my head.

Anyway, the not-so-scariness of this island aside, he did warn us to beware of King Andre, the greatest smuggler in the world. He runs the smuggling ring here and is as ruthless as he is bald. They make their home in the glowing cave that could be seen from the shore.

Little bit of story-time. My memory is a bit fuzzy on this, but from what I can recall I had caught a brief look of and heard a bit of the The Lost Welshman when my parents were playing. Then also at around that time dad had, but in a hard to tell if he was being serious, sort of ominous, sort of joking sort of way, had made a comment about Guybrush dying, gasp.

I have no idea how far I'd seen into the game at this point, but definitely hadn't gotten to the fake death of spiked hangover cure. I was probably still back at Puerto Pollo. Regardless, dark, very death-like ominous figure plus that comment stuck with me, and very reasonably, I expected them to be connected!

It wasn't a letdown per se, but you can imagine my surprise when I did eventually reach this point and was met with this life-jacketed, sandwich eating, bit cranky but okay fellow and he simply took me to Skull Island while the 'death' wasn't a death after all. I suppose don't judge a book by a barely seen cover? It's some misunderstanding that has stuck with me ever since.

Anyhoo, I needed a way to get into the smuggler's cave and the only was up to cliffs at the top, where I found a man, LaFoot, and a dumbwaiter.

Beautiful view up there.

LaFoot was only filling in for someone else and didn't exactly know what he was doing but offered to let me use the dumbwaiter despite how rickety it seemed and not being built for much. It wasn't like there were many options though, so it was time to take the plunge.

Literally.

While Guybrush falls there's the opportunity to use items, or let him fall all the way down to the rocks, but he's fiiine, lovable cartoon character and all. To get down safely you need to use the umbrella while plummeting which will let him float gently down to the smuggler's cave entrance.

Where I met King Andre and his assistant, Cruff.

Andre is voiced by Dave Fennoy who also voiced the pawn shoppe owner in King's Quest VI. As I recall I commented then that he'd voiced someone in this game, and here he is. And Danny Delk, who voices Murray, was King Otar in King's Quest VII.

They have a whole James Bond villain type exchange culminating in Guybrush asking if he expects him to talk and

"No, Mister Threepwood! I expect you to buy!"

And

"Is it madness to sit in a cave at the top of a deserted island accumulating vast amounts of gold and jewels and stuffed animals... stockpiling plunder from across the entire Caribbean and passing the savings on to you? Is that madness? Or GENIUS?!?"

All through the conversation options, periodically LaFoot would open the door to say various things and get yelled at for letting the wind in and risking the candles blowing out.

Then we got down to business and I had the chance to ask about merchandise which opens up a completely optional fun item.

I got a little LeChuckie doll toy. He paces back and forth spouting off the usual sort of cutesy toy sayings before ending each round with something threatening and nasty. It's great.

And he was aaall mine. "I'll be haunting ye into the hereafter!"

Then we got down to business. I needed to buy the diamond and I had a whole lotta money. Unfortunately, he wanted an awful lot of money. However, he and Cruff are fond of poker and were willing to play a hand for the diamond.

You do need to have some money for the buy in and that where the whole lotta money from the life insurance comes in.

Once started you're given a pretty crappy hand: two of spades, three of hearts, four of clubs, eight of clubs and king of diamonds. You can keep losing and keep trying with the cards getting sillier and sillier. You can also add some card like things to your hand as well resulting in things like "a squadron of demon-trolls, a High Priestess of Darkness... and, uh, Stan, Lord High King of Life Insurance Needs."

Ultimately though, it was time to win with a five of a kind: the five death tarot cards. Even they couldn't beat five of a kind. ....But could Guybrush beat a pair? A pair of murderous smugglers?

As things started to look bad, LaFoot opened the door again letting in a gust of wind and blew out the candles. Chaos ensued. Andre and Cruff tried to attack Guybrush but it was too dark to see what they were doing and they ended up fighting each other instead.

Guybrush made his escape and got back to the ferryman, though he had one last thing to do before leaving which was dropping LaFoot down the dumbwaiter... Bit of grudge holding there. I'm sure LaFoot was fine too...

Once back on Blood Island the Ferryman decided it was time to pursue other opportunities. He heard there was still an opening for a chef on Scabb island (another Monkey Island 2 throwback) and sails off. Except, oops, Guybrush forgot to tell him the magnetized pin would only hold its compass-like properties for a short time. Oops. Oh well!

And with another task complete it was time for another scene at Monkey Island which opens on a roller coaster through the giant monkey head.

The riders are plunged into lava, coming out as skeletons on the other end, more recruits for LeChuck's undead army.

And we see Dinghy Dog reporting to LeChuck that he's found them! They're on Blood Island.

Not looking good for Guybrush and Elaine and next time we'll see how that goes.

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