Topic: Barely Floating

[AndyfromVA]

I was doing fine until now but I'm stumped.

I freed the kids, filled up the leaf with water and shampoo and put it on the counter.  What now?

[Fitz]

Wait till the bantender crouches to look for something under the counter - and as soon as he does, talk to him. What'll happen is he'll

jump up, startled, hit his head and fall on the counter, beard-first -- and get shampoo in it.{/hide]

[Xiphias]

Please ignore -- how do I delete this post?  I just asked the question answered right above me. . . .

[selmiak]

I'm currently on the Bingo tournament but

The guy won't help me until he knows his kids are fine.

[CaptainD]

There's an extension cord on top of the speakers in the bar... I wonder what that could plug into? 

[frederic09]

Hi everyone,

I am stuck in the game, i don't know how to :

find the hacker's drink

I have access :

to the Computer room (but i havn't the login/password yet)

I have in my inventory :

the gaz mask

Barbara

the 3 pills

the cane

[Fitz]

You need to

collect quite a few items and do quite a few things to get there. Firstly, you need coconuts (in the big crate on the lower deck where the coldroom, the prison cell and the German guy are) and duct tape (for the life of mine, I can't remember where that was... Igon, perhaps?). You'll need those two things to

give Barbara bigger boobs and... wear her. Use coconuts and the tape on Barbara, go in front of the brewery and use the costume on the door. Once there, go to the left and turn the valve, so that the leak changes direction. Now go talk to the German. He'll start following you. Run away towards the leak. If he stops following, call him again. The goal is to get him stuck between the two containers with his BACK, not his face, facing the screen. The leak is sticky will get him stuck there permanently. When that happens, grab his underpants amd go check out the funnels.

Now you are pretty close - but not quite there yet. You have to

go to the bar and soak the underpants in the puddle in the top left corner. Go to Igon and use them on Igon. He'll tell you what drink it is. Now, go to the brewery and find the funnel for the drink he named. Look at the pills in your pocket. One of them will get whoever takes it severely stoned. Throw it into the funnel. Go back to the bar -- and you'll see it's working. Go talk to the hacker

[frederic09]

thanks, but...

i can't use the pants on the puddle, i have to calm down the hacker a little bit.

Do you have an idea about to solve the problem ?

[CaptainD]

If you can make the hacker more popular, he will calm down a bit...  without wanting to say too much, try playing around with the jukebox a bit and see what happens...

[frederic09]

Wierd i was using it a lot of time, but after a lots of attempt it worked.

Thanks.

[CaptainD]

I think the timing is a little fiddly on that puzzle.  Glad you've got past it!

[AndyfromVA]

Stuck again.

I have the telescope with the captain's image burned on it, but I can't do anything with it.  Also, I think I'm supposed to use Karaoke to get the lamp from the three brothers but I tried mentioning the things they liked and disliked and they still won't let me have the lamp.

[frederic09]

Andy, you're on the right path. It took me 4 hours to find the logic.

You have to influence the brother, so he will answer the question "correctly". Reread the religion part for each brother, and adapt the answer (yes/no) in consequence next time you're doing the Karaoke

[Fitz]

That's a tricky one indeed. Had me stuck for a while, too, and I'm not quite sure how I made it through that one. A bit of knowledge, a bit of analyzing what each said, a bit of luck, I guess. But here's what little I figured out:

The basics (which I guess you've figured out:

Tahwid likes black and white movies. The black and white picture is a symbol of that. He dislikes alcohol - symbolized by the hacker's glass and the bottles on the counter.
Bahwid likes fish (the swordfish over the counter) and dislikes captivity (the chain on the jukebox).
Mahwid likes the sun (spotlights or the flashlight) and dislikes monsters (the octopus).

You need to click on the items liked/disliked by the one who's answering the question. There will be 4 questions and you have to get them all right. The questions repeat in different tries, but there's always a different set. Some that I managed to figure out:

T asking M about gods - lights
B - M: middle road - black and white picture
T - B: hell - chain
B - M: hell - octopus
B - M: one god - lights
T - B: inaction - fish
M - T: no gods at all - alcohol
B - T: non-being - alcohol
M - B: inaction - chain
T - M: reincarnation - octopus
T - M: non-being - flash
M - B: one god - fish
T - B: one god - chain
B - T: hell - aclohol
T - B: non-being - fish
T - B: inaction - fish
T - M: hell - octopus
T - M: rebirth - octopus
T - M: non-being - light
M - T: serving god - picture
B - M: no gods - light
T - B: serving god - chain
T - B: inaction - fish

Not sure if everything in that list is absolutely correct. Some were pretty logical, but some were wild guesses that just happened to work.

[AndyfromVA]

Thanks, Fredric09 and Fitz.  I don't know that I ever would have been able to figure it out on my own.

[CaptainD]

Fitz - there is a definite logic, you just have to

make the brothers agree with each other

.  (Well yeah, that sounds a whole lot easier than it is in practice, but it's definitely logical not random.)

[Fitz]

CaptainD:

Yeah, I figured that much. It's not that I was totally oblivious as to how it works.

I also knew right away that the items I mentioned were a reference to the brothers' likes and dislikes. But when I first started singing, I didn't even click them, because I thought they'd be needed later -- and clicked the brothers and other people instead. But it's like with, say, the rhyming sword fights in Monkey Island (at least the 3rd one had them, can't remember the earlier ones) - you just have to try stuff a bunch of times.

On a side note - gotta love how much thought and creativity went into this!

[CaptainD]

I also knew right away that the items I mentioned were a reference to the brothers' likes and dislikes. But when I first started singing, I didn't even click them, because I thought they'd be needed later -- and clicked the brothers and other people instead. But it's like with, say, the rhyming sword fights in Monkey Island (at least the 3rd one had them, can't remember the earlier ones) - you just have to try stuff a bunch of times.
On a side note - gotta love how much thought and creativity went into this!

I absolutely agree - loved this puzzle once I figured it out (which, unusually for me, was quite quickly!    Many puzzles in SoMI I worked out by accident though.  It was a great moment when I finally worked out how to defeat the Sword Master!

Also, sorry if it appeared that I was belittling your puzzle-solving abilities - that really was not my intention! 

[Frodo]

I'm stuck near the end of the game.   

I rescued the family from the brig, and they're waiting in the lifeboat.

But

The lifeboat is locked in place.  I need to get back upstairs to get the key to unlock it.  But he won't go back upstairs cos of the guards, and I can't find another way up.

I have in my inventory

Meat hook from the meat locker, 3 pills, gas mask, Barbara, and cane.

[CaptainD]

Maybe you can somehow get back into your cabin... that glass doesn't look all that strong...