Wrath of the Gods Page #12

Synopsis: An American sailor falls in love with a fisherman's daughter and convinces her that Jesus is more powerful than the gods who have cursed her.
 
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Year:
1914
56 min
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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

63

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.

64

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

65

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.

We left off the tale of the hero Jason at the point where

Medea (meh-DEE-uh) of Colchis (KOL-kis) helped him harness

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Joel Skidmore

Joel Skidmore has been interested in Greek mythology since his kindergarten teacher explained the flying horse symbol of the gas station on the corner. Joel studied English literature at Yale University and has since worked as a newspaper reporter, locomotive engineer, writer, and computer programmer. He co-designed the Greek mythology adventure game Wrath of the Gods. more…

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