Solution
of the Month
I just love those old time adventures.... Can't solve them for dirt, though! For all you folks out there who want to introduce your kids (grandkids, younger siblings, etc.) to Atari adventuring, check out our solution of the month. This is to HELP the little darlings, not to ruin it for them, so don't just let them read the answers.
Provided
by Nir Dary
In this adventure, your goal is to find and kill the evil vampire, Count Dracula. This is probably the most boring of the Adams Adventures because you have to do a lot of waiting for some things to happen, and exactly when they happen seems to be a random thing.
You start off in bed in Dracula's house. Get the sheets, then get up. Go North into the hallway, then West into the kitchen. Enter the dumb (waiter) and raise it, then go room. You are now in the pantry. Get the matches and the garlic, then return to the dumb waiter.
Lower the dumb twice, Now it's time to get the light source, so go Down the dungeon. Tie the sheets to the iron rings, then descend into the pit. Get the torch (it's there even though you can't see it), and climb again. you don't have to bother about the sheets again. Go back into the dumb and Raise dumb to get back to the kitchen.
When you will hear the bell ring "DING-DONG", This will tell you that the postman has delivered some mail to the house. Once you hear the bell, go to the front door. You will find a postcard with a note clipped to it. Read the postcard. Get the paper clip and drop the note.
Now, return to the kitchen, get into the dumb waiter, and lower it to the Work Room. Go into the room. Pick the lock on the closet door (with the paper clip, of course), open the door, and enter the closet. Drop the stake you're carrying, then get the vial and leave.
Back in the Work Room, close and re-lock the door, and drop the paper clip. Now go back up to the kitchen. Empty the vial (3 No-Doz tablets come out) then drop it. Take the tablets, Now you have to wait until sunset, but you must be careful here. Stop saying "wait" as soon as it starts to get dark outside, When you are starting to feel tired Eat a tablet. Then continue to wait until nightfall, at which time, light your torch.
Wait a little longer, then enter the oven. It's a solar oven, so you can never get in here during the day. Get the nailfile that's inside, and leave the oven. At this point, you have done all you can, so you might as well go back to bed. Remember to unlight the torch before going to sleep. This night you will be bitten, and there is nothing you can do about it.
The next morning, you will notice that the sheets are on the bed again. Get them, then get up. Tie the sheet to the bed, then get the sheet (loose end), open the window, go out the window, and drop the end of the sheet over the ledge.
Now climb down the sheet, go to the Window Box, then go through the window into the room. Drop the nail file here, Get the portrait of Dracula and drop it. This will reveal a secret passage. If you want to explore it, go ahead (light torch first). Just make sure you unlight the torch re trying to climb back up the sheets!
Well, here you have plenty of time to kill until the mailman brings a certain package. So, just mess around again until the bell rings. (But don't type: Wait!!!) At that point, go to the front door again.
Open the package. Inside are a bottle of blood and a pack of cigarettes. Get the cigarettes (make sure you say "pack"!). After that, go back down the sheets to the room with the secret passage. You should do this before night falls. Drop the pack of transylvanian cigarettes and take a cigarette, Don't forget to take the nail file.
Now wait for sunset the same way you did the night before. Once the sun sets, light your torch and go into the passage. Follow it along to the crypt. Light a cigarette, then smoke it. Dracula's (empty) coffin will appear (this is the only way to make the coffin appear).
Open the coffin and go inside. Use the file to break the bolt on the coffin, then get out again. Drop the lighted cigarette, and leave the passage. Now, take a second cigarette from the pack and just put out the torch and go to sleep.
Once again, you wake up in the bed, with the sheets. Get them, and tie them to the bed as you did the day before. Open the window and go down the sheets to the room with the secret passage. Drop the new cigarette here. Now go to the Kitchen (don't forget to unlight the torch) to the dumb waiter and from there to the Work Room. Use the clip to pick the lock on the closet door so you can get the stake. Also make sure you grab the mallet on your way out.
Now that you have the stake and the hammer, go up to the kitchen again, and from there to the bedroom and down the sheets to the secret passage. Light the torch, enter the passage, and go to the crypt. Light the cigarette Smoke the cigarette, and the coffin will appear again.
Open the coffin, go inside (yes, you must!), and apply the coup-de-grace to the vampire. TA-DA! You're a hero! (Hey, you're pretty good at this stuff. How are you with voodoo...)