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Bloodbones solution

Word of caution: fights are difficult to the point of being imbalanced in this book. There also is a lot of skill and luck tests where your life is at stake. You are going to need as high scores as possible.

Charge one of the pirates: this will make the fight easier.
Fight the half ogre (don’t run away).
After the following scene, go to the gambling pits.
Visit the Amazing Armano (where you can win 10 gold and regain 1 luck). If you are stuck, the solution is: 121.
Go to the arrow of providence.
Be lucky! write down DNALSI.
Leave the gambling pits and disregard the message: it’s just a trap.
Add 2 hours and go to the markets.
Check the more exotic wares in the Port of Crabs.
Buy the shark’s teeth bracelet (it has 38 teeth) and the ivory lion charm for a total of 13 gold pieces. At your option, the potion of giant strenght can be a valid purchase. The rest is useless. Leave the talismonger.
You have the ivory lion charm. Write down the directions for Madame Galbo. She has something useful for you.
It’s up to you if you want to shop for more practical objects. Consider that from now on for the entire duration of the book you will only need 6 gold pieces for clues/objects that are crucial for the plot, so if you have a lot of money, equipping yourself for combat is a good idea. As I said, fights tend to be quite difficult in this book. The poison antidote is also a good choice.
Leave the markets and add 1 hour.
Follow the man.
Go back the way you have come.
Win the fight.
Whether you’re lucky or not, fight Crivens and win.
Keep the doubloon and the dagger. You have the world DNALSI.
Enter the shop.
Offer 2 gold pieces and get information: Bone Island lies 370 leagues East of the Port of Crabs.
Time to look for the pirates’ secret base.
You don’t have the word REGNAD.
It’s time to visit Mandrake’s Lane
Pay 4 gold pieces Madame Galbo and ask for the special compound, then leave Madame Galbo’s shop.
Add 1 hour and Go to the ruined promontory.
Investigate the light.
Win the fight.
Add the word ENUTROF and return to the lighthouse.
Remember well the password Crossbones and then leave Mallan Point.
Add 1 hour and go to the cemetery.
You have none of these words.
You have the crab doubloon.
Be lucky!
You know the password from your visit to the Lighthouse.
There’s still plenty of time, so go left.
Search.
Be lucky! You’re going to need this jewel in the end. Remember the number of its sides, too. Add 1 hour and go back.
Attack the beast.
Open the door.
It’s taken 8 hours or less.
You have the shark’s teeth bracelet. How many teeth did I say it has?
Open the door marked Captain.
You may open the globe but you’ll have no need for its content.
Open the chest (you’ll need the rum later, so don’t drink it).
Examine the ship in a bottle (I just loved this one).
Smash the bottle.
Remember: 460 leagues south.
Be lucky.
Open the far door.
Don’t get caught!
Win the fight; you have the word ENUTROF.
Remember the two coordinates you found previously.
Avoid the crab reefs (and regain stamina).
Ghost ship! Don’t we just love this book? Of course approach the ship.
Personally board the Sea Maiden.
Stand your ground.
Go down the staircase.
Win the fight.
Write down the word NEDIAM, then go back to your ship.
Pray you roll less than your stamina score.

Congratulations, you’re on Bone Island! Although in a horrible shape.
Look for other survivors.
Try to communicate with the creature.
Offer something to Balinac.
Give him the rum you found in Captain Cinnabar’s chest.
Go with the primitive. Lots of useful goodies in this hut!
Examine the potions: drink them both.
If you want, examine the mythica.
Examine the arcanum. Personally I find the insect repellant the most useful of these spells. There are quite some vicious insects in this island, and avoiding having to fight them is jolly well desirable, especially the one you’re about to encounter. However, considering the number of luck tests you are still going to have to take, the luck spell is not a bad idea either (but I only recommend it if you have the poison antidote).
Leave the cell.
Pass the test!
Defeat this beast
Go south
You can quickly pass through the village: there’s nothing here
Another filthy insect to fight: again, the insect repellant is very useful here. If you get bitten even once, you’ll die unless you have the poison antidote.
Meet Scrimshaw the castaway. Press him about the treasure.
Give Scrimshaw a present. You don’t need that shark’s teeth necklace anymore after all. Whatever you give him, don’t give him the ivory lion charm. You will need it.
Set out for the caves.
Enter the caves.
Kill the bats
Better be lucky, but if you are not, go further down the caves anyways.
Be successful!
Continue
Dive into the water
Take a closer look at the bone weapon
Defeat the golem (which, by the way, I think is the coolest monster in this book. What golem do you have in a pirate story? A treasure golem! of course!)
Leave the caves (don’t touch the treasure!)
Time for random encounters. Whatever happens, you’ll reach the outskirts of a group of mud huts eventually.
Enter the village.
You do not have a darkwood armband.
You do not have the word SITNAM
Pass both skill tests!
Your choice here. The challenge of the cat involves a nonlethal fight (you still can get wounded, mind you), the challenge of the shell involves lifting a giant shell which involves rolling four dice and scoring less than you stamina. It’s vital that you pass the challenge so choose wisely.
You are using a bone sword!
Now you know the sword’s name: Nightdeath. Time to face this creature.
Go to the mountains.
You do not have the word DEPACSE, so be lucky.
Be lucky again.
Archway to the right. (unless you feel like having a fight scene with a rather cool enemy, in which case go to the left. After that, go to the right)
Be lucky!
Proceed, then take the new path (ignore the statue room).
Don’t get any double results in any of the four rolls!
Go left.
Fight the two zombie guards and defeat them.
Help whoever is imprisoned here.
You get the knowledge of a weakness of the zombies (during an attack round, reduce your attack strenght by 2, but as soon as you succeed, instead of inflicting damage you remove their mask, thus reducing their stamina by 2 - so it's like inflicting a regular wound - and their skill by 3). But most important, you get a clue for an upcoming puzzle: back two, forward two, back two, forward two". You'll make sense of it very soon.
Go right.
Succeed in the skill test.
Go left
Engage in combat
Solve the puzzle.
It's a ciphered phrase of course. Transcribing the letters on the illustration they are: VMGLVCTRJCEPAQVYNAJYOZGPMLQAMRYCPRADKTGRKKGQGJGTGLVGOCU. The cypher shifts letters alternating back two, then forward two, exactly like the imprisoned tribesmen told you in the previous encounter. Go on, do it.
(On a funny side, I can’t help thinking that knocking two hundred and seventyfive times on a rock surface is going to reduce my knuckles to a bloody mess, but still...)
Try to destroy the crystal.
Win the fight with the snakes.
Whether you’re lucky or not, now you have the word DEHSAMS.
Hold your breath.
Go on without hesitation.
Run for it.
Fight the scarachna again.
Do not fail the skill thest!
You have the ivory lion charm so this additional test should be easy enough.
You do have the word DEHSAMS: time to kill Ramatu!
Take the pearl.
Absolutely take the fetish!
Leave the temple.
You do have the word NEDIAM.
Whether you’re lucky or not, you’ll have to fight one or two of Cinnabar’s cronies. Pray you’ll roll a 5-6, or the fights will be two. As soon as you defeat Mirel the Red, a skill test will follow. Whether you are successful or not, it’s finally time to face Cinnabar himself.
You do have the fetish.
Use something against the horror.
You have a blue eight-sided gem.
You’re using a bone weapon called Nightdeath, remember?
Thanks to the ivory charm and the blue gem, the fight against Quezkari becomes feasible (it would be nearly impossible otherwise).
Congratulations! You just finished Bloodbones!