Let's Play the First Quest: King's Quest

Seriously, how often will a Sierra game have a chance to kill you, but not take it? Must still be growing pains.


Anyways, your map is looking awfully flat right now. Go north.

Okay, let's try some of these: Use Knife on Self



It gets weirder:



Is the goat's name Graham? What the hell? Does anyone else find it weird that Sierra On-line thought of hundreds of ways to kill off our hero but forgot suicide?

Okay, let's go play with the goat:



Alright fuck this goat:







I don't think that helped any guys... In fact, the game is unbeatable now. Thanks! I hope you enjoyed this LP of King's Quest!

Next time: Sir Graham wanders around some more and discovers his pants are connected to some sort of "pocket" universe which stores the increasing number of items he stuffs into them...

Last time we left Graham he'd just finished stealing an egg from an egg nest. I'm guessing it belonged to the hen from KQ4. Seeing as, he hasn't had any bright ideas and trying to forget that nightmare he had of stabbing goats... He hits the road, northbound!



a door! Graham tries to open it. Crap it's locked. Eastward:



yet another lake...



I bet something bad lives in there... No time to find out though, Eastward!





Lucky Graham!



An elf? Maybe I don't know it wandered off before I could talk to it. East of here Graham runs into the door into the mountain. So he heads north and finds:



There are cute squirrels running into and out of the screen grabbing walnuts. No, the game will not let me capture and/or torture them, sorry





SCORE! Graham now has a gold egg, a gold walnut, and a pouch of diamonds. The man can buy his own damn kingdom now, why is he sticking around Daventry? Graham, ignoring the riches in his pocket continues on:

Geez, you tend to forget how "plop hero into middle of giant wasteland"-style Roberta Williams' games were, at least until III changed everything. It's a big contrast with Space / Police / Larry.

Holy crap, you actually killed the goat.....I thought for sure the goat would probably kill you instead, given how goats and these games usually work. I feel sorry for the 'lil guy now. =(

Still going east:



SCORE!



But when Graham tries to cross the bridge:




hmm... I wonder how do I get rid of a troll guarding a bridge... Oh well, continuing east:



Wonder what this is for?

welp, that's another circuit of planet Daventry. Graham heads north then, just to be different, west:



Ah, crap! What the hell is up with this river, anyway? It doesn't make any sense at all. I blame magic, again. East it is:



There's a small hole in that rock, I suppose if Graham was so inclined he could look into it...

I don't understand the question.

Graham is currently at the small hole. One of the things that always bothered me about the map for KQ1 is the two screens of garden that correspond to three castle screens below them. I feel that Sierra generally did a good job of setting up their maps, but this bugs me endlessly. Mostly because I can't make as pretty a grid as I can with QFG1 or KQ2

You CANT kill yourself with the dagger!?
I feel jipped now...
USE DAGGER on TROLL
EDIT: Also, go West of the lake, maybe theres another bigger lake that you can swim in! Or drown in :P

Considering you time paradoxed the graphic goat genocide away, maybe we could force the goat to come along somehow and offer it as a tasty meal to the troll for passage? Trolls like to eat goats, right? Right?

But then again, there's a gingerbread house. Maybe we could bust in and eat it from the inside?

I tried... Knife and dagger are interchangeable, I used both to make sure.

Which lake? There's half a dozen. Also, unlike in AGI KQ1, Graham automatically swims and I don't think he gets tired and drowns. But, I'll look into it.

Dang- didn't notice the other lakes XD thats ADD for ya though- I meant the one on the far left side, in the middle of the 5 paths.

Waitwaitwaitwaitwait! The game stops you from getting into a fight with the troll? I'm so confused. I've never seen a Sierra game that doesn't kill you at every opportunity.

Also, that's a different bridge than you showed us last time. You've been exploring without us. :<

Sierra got less evil about the killing as the years went by, and KQ wasn't as evil as Police Quest II (two words: gunsight alignment).

(Keep in mind, I love PQII, it's just evil at a few points)

What a contrast to KQ8 (which I’ve never played), in which I understand that the player is somehow rewarded for killing everything in sight!

I think we should try to carve a hole in the bad trees. Maybe there's a golden heart inside?

It had a better view of the troll is all. You'll see it next episode, I'm sure.

East of the small hole in the rock:



Despite my best efforts Graham can do nothing with that snake up there.



And there is our unstabable troll. Looks like that guy is doing double duty working two bridges... Well guess we can't go east anymore either. So North!



Another bridge?! There better not be a damn Troll on this one... and there isn't Graham crosses successfully and heads, wait for it, east! (you guys picked it not me)



COME ON! Well if you've been following along at home, then you've already guessed that this bridge is protected by the troll as well (look at the maps, the troll bridges all block off access to one 'block' of the map. Must be something important there.) Worse the brush to the east is too thick for Graham to get through without muddying his britches so he heads Westward:




So that is it the land of Daventry in its whole:



What was next? Oh yeah getting the goat and the troll together! Let's see how that works. Or was it swimming? or was it eating the gingerbread house?

Easiest first:



and Graham can do it all day. He should think about entering the Ironman



Can't say the same for his abilities in the river though...

DEATH COUNT: 3

Ok, lets do something about that Troll (and that damned goat)





That's not believable, in no time Graham will be lugging around a golden shield and an entire chest full of gold! But a goat is too much for the man?

Anyway... Let's give the guy the carrot maybe he'll follow us then?



Huh, it doesn't seem to be having the desired effect. Good thing the castle has an entire garden full of them. Graham slogs over and gets back only to find:



Shit. Well just as with killing the goat. Letting him escape also makes the game unbeatable... dick move? You decide. Good thing I save and save often. Let's try that again but, this time:



I hope this troll likes to eat goat!



After the goat obliterates the troll it wanders off never to be seen again! Now we can see what's on this island:



Well, I can see where this is going! Don't bother with Rumpelstiltskin though as it will only end in tears...

What now Tyrants? Should Graham do a little breaking & entering at the Gingerbread house? Investigate the hole? Investigate the Well? Investigate that ratty cabin? Wander aimlessly in the hopes that something good will happen to us?

Break into the gingerbread house. If it has an oven, set it on fire and eat the flaming candy to kill yourself. If it won't let you, I vote we go North of the gloomy clearing at the top left of the map.

I don't see how breaking into the gingerbread house could possibly be a bad idea.

I know that story. You should just be able to break into the gingerbread house, assault the witch, kick her into her own oven, and bake her alive.

Do that. Graham's a hero.

If we go north of the gloomy clearing we'll just end up at the bottom of that column at the forest/rock and we've already got the knife from there...

Perhaps you should add arrows that indicate the world loops around.

So... Daventry is on a tiny, donut shaped planet?

Anyhoo, stab that pesky gnome. Teach him some damn manners.

Let's eat some of the gingerbread house and then perpetrate some petty larceny in the ratty cabin. There must be at least one useful item to pilfer.

THROW BABY.


...also, eat the gingerbread house.

Sir Graham finds himself compelled to return to the spooky part of Daventry's forests and eat that gingerbread house. Its owner be damned! On they way though:



The bastard managed to get me too!



Dammit! Getting sorcered is bad enough but then some damn filth dwarf comes along and stole from me?! *RESTORE*

Graham finds himself explicably standing around, he could have sworn a moment ago he was paralyzed and being felt up by an incredibly diminutive bearded fellow... Oh, well onwards to the gingerbread house:



Dammit, again. *restore*

Graham yet again finds himself waking up from a terrible daydream in which a large green tinged beast was violating his person most aggressively. Somehow he still has not made it to the gingerbread house. He begins to question his sanity, and the gods... After a short uneventful jaunt he arrives:



Graham can't recall whether he took a bite out of the house before, and seeing as it still looks delicious goes for another:



Always the gentleman:





This doesn't look good. I'm guessing that Death Count down there will soon be at five...

Death Count: 4
Screwed Count: 1

We last left Sir Graham in the clutches of an evil witch... I wonder if he got out of that fix?



Guess not... *restore*

Graham finds himself outside of the gingerbread house his fist inches from knocking on the door and his mind still full of the phantom pain of being cooked in a cauldron of green goo. Where do these horrific images keep coming from? He lowers his hand a sudden feeling that knocking wouldn't be that smart









Graham approaches the cabinet and looks in to see a piece of cheese, when suddenly:



He grabs the cheese closes the cabinet and hides in the bedroom



Damned witch never seems to shut-up... She does seem to be leaning over that cauldron precariously though... An idea begins to form in his mind when he notices more loose property that doesn't belong to him:





What the hell does that mean? Graham wonders disappointed that his pilfering lead to nothing. Undistracted by the though of stealing from others that idea returns to Graham:



DEATH COUNT: 5

Welp, having stolen everything not tied down in the witch's house and then brutally murdering her Graham once again finds himself with nothing to do.

Until he remembers that other house in the area he has yet to ransack! he quickly makes his way to the run-down cabin...

First, though he's a little hungry:







The bowl again obliges by filling itself magically with stew. Sweet!


Random event that occured on the way to the cabin:



Green huh? Wonder what that means...



Okay now to ransack that dump!



Crap, someone leaves here...







Damn, he could still from these people but Graham doesn't like people knowing about his kleptomania... Also, that woman doesn't look so well.



Not a bad trade Graham supposes... minus the part where he gave away a magical bowl that provides endless amounts of food for a crappy old fiddle... Does the thing at least play? Graham recalls his mother making him take all those music lessons and picks up the fiddle:



He's still got it...

What now Talking Tyrants? What Now!?

Explore the well? Interrogate the diminutive man on the island with the spinning wheel? Assault the lone elf wandering in the wilderness? Do something else entirely?