W7-SphinxCave

Wizardry VII - Sphinx Cave

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1.	->to Ukpyr Mountains
2.	Pausing inside the cave's entrance, you glance about and listen. You can hear a faint noise coming from somewhere not too far away, like the sound of rushing water. And the brevity of its echoes reveal that the cave is probably fairly shallow.
3.	Approaching the edge of the waters, you see that they are quite agitated, and are curious about the source of the pool's hefty ripples. Deposits of a fine white powder along the bank's edge have frosted the lip of the pool, a coating likely acquired by ages of lapping waves laden with the crystallized mineral. ->search Picking up a small pinch of the milky shore, you sniff, then taste. Salty! ->use [REBUS EGGE] Placing the mysterious egg upon the salty bank, you stand back and wait to see what happens. Nothing.
4.	Ahead lies the great eruption of turbulent water, and you can feel the current starting to pull you down.
5.	The violent tide sucks you under. ->all members died!
6.	->pull level A slight tremor passes through the cavern, and you hear a brief rumble which soon ebbs into the quiet once more. (wall at point '7' removed)
8.	A great commotion of convulsing waters spews up from the center of the turgid pool, and you realize that to navigate the turbulent would most likely end with disaster. Here too, the shore is bathed in deposits of the frost-white mineral, the accumulation so great that is has formed a plateau several feet high. ->use [REBUS EGGE] Placing the mysterious egg upon the salty bank, you stand back and wait to see what happens. Nothing at first. And then you notice that the salt seems to be dissolving the hard stoney shell. It is reacting with the egg, bubbling, spewing and fizzing. And then it explodes! Although powerful enough to knock you down, no one seems hurt. In fact it was a quite gentle and almost pleasant sensation. You stand up and begin to brush yourself off, and while doing so suddenly catch a glimpse of the magnificent creature flying directly at you from above. Is he not a body, that from toil doth he bring forth sustenance? Is he not a heart, that from anguish doth he glean understanding? Is he not a mind, that from chaos doth he wrest order? And is he not yet more than this, that from emptiness doth he harvest creation? Then the wondrous manifestation swoops down to the edge of the bubbling water, and flying a high arc above the uproaring sea, emits a trail of swirling colors which follows her path across it to the other side. And she calls across the churning ocean and the colorful arch. Think well upon this, for this be thine only key to the great riddle. Before you shines a great rainbow arch, spanning across a pool of churning waters. Do you step onto the arch? ->answer yes Stepping upon the end of the rainbow arch, you magically glide across the raging pool.
9.	Before you shines a great rainbow arch, spanning across a pool of churning waters. Do you step onto the arch? ->answer yes Stepping upon the end of the rainbow arch, you magically glide across the raging pool.
10.	A shallow pit lies in the cavern floor, filled with a sea of black slugs. ->search Reaching down into the pit of slugs, your hand grasps a metal rod, afloat with their oozing midst. Extracting the hard shaft, you behold a dazzling wand. Perhaps the creature’s strange words have something to do with it. ->get [MAJESTIK WAND]