Invisiclues

How can I keep the ceiling from caving in?

1. You can't. It will always cave in when you enter the mine.

How can I breathe in the coal mine?

1. You can survive only three turns without the aid of magic.
2. You need a potion.
3. It's the vilstu potion, which you must acquire before you leave the Guild Hall.
4. See the matchbook question in the Guild Hall section.

How can I get past the door in the Dial Room?

1. READ THE SIGN.
2. EXAMINE THE DIAL.
3. You'll have to find out the combination.
4. Unfortunately, Ernie Flathead is probably long gone.
5. Only someone who has already been through it can tell you.
6. Take the vilstu potion, and then wait in the Coal Bin Room.

Who is the person who looks just like my twin?

1. The person looks just like you, only more dishevelled.
2. It is your own older self.
3. There must be some time travel going on here.

Should I give my spell book to my "twin"?

1. It makes sense to trust your older self, since your interests are almost certainly mutual. After all, where would your older self be if you went and got yourself "killed"?

Can I make a map of the coal mine?

1. Yes, but you don't have much time until vilstu wears off.
2. Dropping an object in each room of the coal mine will individualize it, and thus making a map of the area will be easier.
3. There are only three rooms called Coal Mine, but sometimes a passage returns to the same room that it left from.

Can I go down the coal chute at Top of Chute?

1. Sure. DOWN or ENTER THE CHUTE will do it.

What was that flash of orange light?

1. VEZZA might be helpful here.
2. There is a room off the middle of the coal chute.
3. You can get to it if you've found the timber in the coal mine.
4. Tie the rope to the timber, drop the timber at Top of Chute, and then throw the rope down the chute.
5. If you are tired, or holding anything, you will lose your grip on the rope.

What is the purpose of the GOLMAC spell?

1. READ it.
2. Temporal travel means traveling in time.
3. This is obviously how your older self was able to meet you earlier, in the Coal Bin Room.
4. CAST GOLMAC ON ME, then go DOWN to the Coal Bin Room.

What is the purpose of the kerosene lamp?

1. It lights the Slanted Room.
2. Something unusual happens when you GOLMAC in the Slanted Room.
3. After casting GOLMAC on yourself, OPEN THE LAMP.
4. The smelly scroll wasn't there when you arrived, because you yourself removed it the "last time through" the cycle.

What happened to the objects I dropped into the coal chute at Top of Chute?

1. When you drop objects into the upper coal chute, they land in the Coal Bin Room, where they get buried in the coal (except for a few large objects, such as the timber or the floor waxer).

What should I do when I meet my younger self?

1. What happened the last time this meeting occurred?
2. If you gave your older self the spell book before, then your younger self should now give you the spell book.
3. You'd better give your younger self the combination to the door in the Dial Room.
4. Otherwise your younger self will never be able to get to the Slanted Room and find GOLMAC and become your older self...
5. ...or more simply, you will cease to exist!

How can I get my younger self to give me my spell book?

1. Remember, you were the younger self 20 or 30 turns ago.
2. Your younger self will do whatever you did when you were the younger self.
3. If you gave your spell book to your older self, then your younger self will give it to you.

Aargh! This coal mine puzzle has me totally befuddled! Help!

1. Don't go on until you're completely stumped by the coal mine.
2. The entire goal of the coal mine puzzle is to obtain the smelly (VARDIK) scroll.
3. Time is of the essence, since vilstu will eventually run out.
4. One sequence that will work (starting from the Sooty Room): FROTZ ME. OPEN THE ORANGE VIAL. E. DRINK THE ORANGE POTION. Z. GIVE BOOK TO OLDER SELF. E. TURN DIAL TO (combination). OPEN DOOR. E. TAKE ROPE. U. SW. TAKE TIMBER. NW. W. TIE ROPE TO TIMBER. THROW ROPE DOWN CHUTE. DROP ALL. D. TAKE SCROLL. GOLMAC ME. OPEN LAMP. TAKE SCROLL. D. YOUNGER SELF, THE COMBINATION IS (combination). D.