Wrath of the Gods Page #12
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daughter, the crops withered and it became perpetual winter.
At length Hades was persuaded to surrender Persephone
for one half of every year, the spring and summer seasons
when flowers bloomed and the earth bore fruit once more.
The half-year that Persephone spends in the Underworld as
Hades’ queen coincides with the barren season.
The Sirens, meanwhile, had been punished with bird legs
for not thwarting the abduction, or they were given wings
to extend the scope of Demeter’s search for Persephone. In
later years they settled on a rock in the West, off the coast of
what is now called Italy. Here the sweetness of their singing,
together with the strains of the flute and lyre, lured sailors
to their doom. Those who heard the haunting melody lost
all thought of home and languished on the Sirens’ rock until
they died. Or they forgot their sailorly craft and shipwreck
ensued. When the Argonauts passed on their return from
Colchis (KOL-kis) with the Golden Fleece, Orpheus (ORE-fee-us)
saved his crewmates from this fate by his own singing and
plucking of the lyre. Some claim that he simply drowned out
the Sirens; other says that he sang more sweetly.
Forewarned of their musical reputation, Odysseus (oh-DISSee-
us) also saved his ships when passing the Sirens’ lair. He
plugged up the ears of his crew but, wishing to hear what all
the fuss was about, he left his own unplugged. He took the
precaution, though, of having himself tied to the mast. So he
couldn’t grab the tiller and make for the rocks when, true to
their reputation, the Sirens lured him on.
SAILOR:
Captain, sir, we’re about to pass the Siren. Her
song’s so sweet, it makes you lose your mind and
crash into the rocks… You take the tiller.
At this point you should select the beeswax in your
inventory and click it on yourself. This triggers an animation
of you sticking the wax in your ears. You click on the tiller,
which causes you to take hold of it. The ship begins to pass
the rock on which the Siren is sitting. Without wax in your
ears, you crash into some smaller rocks in the background;
the boat sinks and you wash up on Beach 2 (next page). With
wax in your ears, you float safely behind the Siren’s rock.
The scene transitions soon after the prow goes behind
the rock, so you don’t have all that much time to think of
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clicking on the Siren as you go past, either to try to take
her lyre or to get her to play her melody. If however you
do think to click on her, she plays a sequence of four notes
on the lyre. She repeats the pattern and you see the exact
sequence in which she plays the notes (the lyre’s strings
come up in the black below the screen and glow in sequence:
2-1-3-4). You will need to play this pattern to win the Golden
Fleece (page 65). (It turns out you can’t take the Siren’s lyre.)
Once past the Siren rocks you’re on open sea again. The
Sailor approaches, beaming. His lips move like he’s talking
enthusiastically, but there’s no sound. By clicking on your
head, you remove the wax from your ears. Suddenly you can
hear the sailor talk.
SAILOR:
Way to go! You did it. You made it through the
Rocks. You’re a hero!
BEACH. You find yourself ashore once again. The ship that
carried you safely past the Siren is anchored offshore. Or, if
you were shipwrecked, the scene opens with you washed up
on this beach.
Beach 2
BEACHFRONT HUT. If you walk down the beach to the
right, you find a beachfront taverna—just the place to
acquire something to knock out the Cyclops (page 69).
Taverna
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Be it for a hero of ancient times or her counterpart today,
there’s nothing quite like a day at the beach to work up
a thirst. A modern hero would know better than to drink
alcohol in such a situation, but wine was a popular drink in
ancient heroic times. To say that the Greeks of that era drank
it like water would not be too great an exaggeration. But
they also drank it with water, mixing in a goodly proportion
to dilute the intoxicating effect.
Fortunately that does not seem to be the practice in this
particular taverna, because it requires a large quantity of
undiluted intoxicant to put a Cyclops to sleep. The bartender
is wiping the bar with a towel and whistling. If you talk to
him:
BARTENDER:
Oh, you look a little worn out. How about a nice
cool bottle of retsina? It’s got a kick that would
fell an ox. That’ll be one gem.
If you pay the man, he hands you the bottle, you heft it and
take a big swig of Greek wine. You keel over backwards. He
moves the bottle and says:
BARTENDER:
Easy there, old buddy. You better take the rest
with you.
Then he goes back to whistling and wiping the bar. You click
on the bottle to take it, and it pings into your inventory.
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EDGE OF GLOWING FOREST. Near an impenetrable grove
you come upon King Aeëtes (ee-EE-teez), from the myth
of Jason and the Argonauts. Aeëtes ruled the barbarian
kingdom of Colchis (KOL-kis) on the frontier of the heroic
world. He and his people were not kindly disposed toward
strangers. When Jason arrived in quest of the Golden Fleece,
Aeëtes feigned hospitality but did what he could to cause
the hero’s demise. On an earlier occasion, however, Aeëtes
had extended a gracious hand to a visitor from Jason’s
home town. This may have been due to the newcomer’s
unorthodox mode of transportation. For he arrived on the
back of a golden-fleeced flying ram. The stranger’s name
was Phrixus (FRIK-sus) and he and his sister had been on the
point of being sacrificed when the ram carried them off. The
sister, whose name was Helle (HEL-ee), had fallen from the
ram’s back into the narrow strait which came to be called the
Hellespont (HEL-es-pont) in her memory. But Phrixus arrived
safely in Colchis, where he sacrificed the ram to the gods
and hung its fleece in a grove. Aeëtes gave him the hand of
one of his daughters in marriage.
Aeëtes must realize that you are on the same quest as Jason,
for he feigns hospitality:
AEËTES
Greetings, stranger! I’m the King of Colchis. And
in yonder grove is my fabulous Golden Fleece.
You’re welcome to the treasure, for many have
tried to take it—and all have failed.
Aeëtes
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GROVE. Entering the forest behind King Aeëtes, you emerge
in a small clearing where the Golden Fleece hangs from a
spike on a thorn tree. If you click on it, suddenly there’s a
roar and the dragon arrives, breathing fire.
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