Rescue princess Mara from Zarn's dungeon and bring her back to the Great Valley.

Primary walkthrough: Jacob Gunness via the Classic Adventures Solution Archive (file id 285), with August 2010 bug fixes by Jim Grimwood. Dorothy Millard's Spectrum walkthrough (Tipshop / her homepage) is a useful cross-check for optional farm food/coin and HELP/KISS variants at the nymph.

• Random attackers may appear - KILL them WITH BOW (or WITH SWORD later)
• Save often; combat can miss

Action	Risk
SWIM	Drowning
JUMP the chasm	Fall
Climb the volcano wall without the rope	Fall
ENTER HOVEL without wearing the ring	Witch
Linger with spider / slime / demons / Zarn	Timed death after a few turns
Meet the wolves without bow and arrows	Instant death

Gunness: characters appear at random and may kill you - KILL creature WITH BOW, and save often. Enemies listed in the route may also show in adjacent locations.

Code inspection of the random helper: elf and flying lizard scenic hits commonly use a 1/15 fatal roll per appearance; Korl warrior 1/20; many bow attacks miss on a 1/5 roll and must be retried. Not playthrough-verified.

Spider, slime monster, demons and Zarn arm a short countdown on entry (six turns in this binary). Clear them before it expires: KILL SPIDER WITH BOW, KILL MONSTER WITH BOW, KILL DEMONS WITH SWORD, KILL WIZARD/ZARN WITH SWORD. After the wolves injure you, wait/LOOK until the wood nymph heals you before moving on.

Gunness skips farmhouse food and the woodman's coin. Millard collects both; they are optional on this route. YS tips say kiss the nymph; Gunness uses LOOK until healed, moves south, then GET RING. TOUCH ROCK and RUB ROCK are treated as equivalent in tips. Tipshop's older Gunness mirror inserts an extra S, W before the return BLOW HORN; the CASA file (with Grimwood fixes) does not - this page follows CASA.

Command	Notes
S	You begin in a great valley; an old man gives you a bow and arrows
GET BOW
GET ARROWS
N
E
N
E
N

Command	Notes
GET LOG
W
S
S
S
S
S
GET HORN
N
E
S
PLACE LOG ACROSS CHASM
E
S
W
W
S
W

Command	Notes
GET ROPE
E
KILL SPIDER WITH BOW
N
CLIMB INTO BOAT
ROW BOAT
CLIMB OUT OF BOAT
N
N	walk around till you are attacked by wolves

Command	Notes
LOOK	until the nymph heals you
S	the nymph gives you a ring
GET RING	now, from the enchanted wood:
E
E
N

Command	Notes
BLOW HORN	the dragon takes you over the cliff
E
S
S
S
S

Command	Notes
WEAR RING
OPEN DOOR
ENTER HOVEL	the witch sees the ring and vanishes
GET KEY
E
W
N
N
N
N
E
N
N
E
U
U

Command	Notes
TIE ROPE TO ROCK
CLIMB DOWN ROPE
UNLOCK CHEST	with the key
OPEN CHEST
GET CRYSTALS
CLIMB UP ROPE
D
D
W
ENTER FORGE
GIVE CRYSTALS TO BLACKSMITH	he makes you a strong sword
GET SWORD
S
W
S
W
S
E

Command	Notes
TOUCH ROCK	this opens a passage into the wizard's stronghold
E
KILL DEMONS WITH SWORD
E
KILL WARRIOR WITH SWORD
E
D
KILL WIZARD WITH SWORD	awful violent game, huh? Anyway, now you've rescued the princess – time to return home

Command	Notes
U
S
W
W
N
W
BLOW HORN	the dragon picks you up again
W
W
W
S
S
S
CLIMB INTO BOAT
ROW BOAT
CLIMB OUT OF BOAT
N
W
S
W
W
W
N
N
W	returning with the princess, you win the game. Congratulations!