KQVI All Deaths Route

**ALL CAPS** = Death. Obviously save just before, then restore.
THIS IS THE SAFER, BEGINNER ROUTE. FOR INTERMEDIATE, SEE END OF PASTEBIN.

Set speed, start game
Get ring, coin
Walk to Bookstore, hand on spellbook, talk to Ali twice
**WALK OFF PIER**
Walk to ferryman, talk, get rabbit's foot
Back to pawn shop, get mint, talk, give ring for map
Get nightingale
Get invisible ink

Mountain
Get flower

Wonder
**FAIL GNOME TEST**
Complete gnome test
grab sentence
Garden: iceberg lettuce, rotten tomato
chessboard land: get red scarf
Bookworm: hand on book column

Beast
Talk to Dangling participle, give sentence
**DIE IN POND**
Use iceberg on pond
Get Hunter's lamp,
Get Brick

Wonder
Dangling participle on bookworm

Crown
Pawnshop: tinderbox
Bookshop: exchange riddle book for spell book

Mountain
Cliffs
**CLICK THIRD CIRCLE**
Cave of Alex, get mint
Catacombs
N, E, E, N
Get skull
S, Save
**GO SOUTH, CATACOMBS ROOM WITH NO FLOOR**
W, W, N, W
**WRONG TILE IN TRAP ROOM**

Alt-click E, N
Get shield
N, N, N, W, W, coins from skeleton
W, W, S, E
**CEILING TRAP THROW SKULL IN GEARS**
Throw brick in gears
E, E, N, E
**WAIT IN DARK AFTER DROP (Minotaur kills you at about 12-14 seconds)**
Light torch with tinderbox
(SAVE immediately after lighting tinderbox instead of saving right before hole-in-wall room. This means less backtracking after the next death.)
W, W, W, W, W, S, S, E
**GET KILLED IN SPY ROOM**
S, S, S, S, W, W
Spellbook skip north (TIP: after clicking out of spellbook, only click walk once at the top of the screen.)
Spellbook skip north again (save right before screen transition into minotaur's lair, as saving doesn't work in the minotaur's lair when you skip in there)

**HAND ICON ON MINOTAUR**
Use red scarf on minotaur
After minotaur, get feather on beach

Mist
Coal, scythe
**WALK NORTH IN MISTS ("Should have been more prepared")**

Beast
**DIE TO ARCHER**
Shield, get rose, use scythe

While waiting to turn into beast:
(make sure you're saving as you go along to waste time. these deaths are pretty safe to do. once you get good at the run, you can cram a few more in this section, but it's riskier.)
**WALK INTO OCEAN**

Map to Wonder
Inventory: Vial into hunters lamp
hunter's lamp to baby (baby's tears are glitched, you don't actually need the milkweed bottle)
Get teacup
Coal to white queen
**WALK INTO CLINGING VINES**
**WALK INTO SWAMP**
Teacup to swamp, tomato to bump on log, teacup on swamp ooze
**WALK INTO SPIDERWEB**
**HAND ON SPIDERWEB**

Map to crown
Walk to Beauty screen
Save, then **WAIT TO TURN INTO BEAST**
Give rose to beauty
Give ring to beauty

Hunter lamp to fountain (do NOT cast spell)
**MAP TO MISTS**
Cast make rain spell, map to mists

Skull to embers
Skull -> hair, egg

Map to Mountain
**WALK OFF THE STEPS (ON BEACH SCREEN, THIRD STONE FROM TOP)**
**EAT BERRIES**
**WALK INTO FIRE**
Charming beast spell

Underworld
Talk king and queen
**LET GHOUL TOUCH YOU**
Talk to ghost (get handkerchief)
Entrance,
Play bone xylophone
Get skeleton key
give ticket
Walk to Charon screen (Charon timer starts when you enter the screen, saves a little time to enter and then go back for the gauntlet)
Walk back to Armor -> gauntlet
Get river styx water in teacup
**FALL IN RIVER STYX**
**WAIT UNTIL CHARON LEAVES (2 MINS FROM WHEN YOU FIRST ENTERED SCREEN)**
Coins charon
Hand door
**HAND DOOR AGAIN**
Talk door
**FAIL PUZZLE (CAN JUST CLICK OUTSIDE LETTERS)**
Talk door, complete puzzle (LOVE)
Talk hooded guards
Use gauntlet (TIP: save immediately after using gauntlet, and use this same save for the next two deaths.)
**TOUCH LORD OF DEAD**
**FAIL CHALLENGE BY WAITING**
Use mirror on Death

Isle of the Crown
Pawn shop, tinderbox for paintbrush
Walk to back of castle
Feather to teacup
Paintbrush on wall
Cast spell
Give handkerchief to ghost boy
Hand on suit of armor (do not need to spy on guard dogs)
Talk to Cassima, __DO NOT GIVE DAGGER__
Walk directly to Alhazred's bedroom (skip spying)
Use skeleton key on chest
Get letter
Hand on door, walk out to hallway
Use skeleton key on cell door
**ENTER GUARD ROOM TO GET CAUGHT BY GUARDS**
Enter secret passage and then leave immediately (leaving passage is one-half of the trigger for wedding music)
Talk to treasure room door (ALIZEBU)
Leave treasure room immediately (Should hear wedding music)
Climb stairs to main entrance
**RUN FROM SALADIN**
Show Saladin letter
**WALK BACK OUT OF THE WEDDING HALL (BEFORE you walk towards "Cassima")**
Walk towards wedding
Run after Alhazred
**ON FIRST LEVEL OF TOWER, USE HAND ON DOOR**
**SAVE BEFORE GETTING SWORD, WAIT TO GET SKEWERED**
**COMPLETE SWORD FIGHT, CASSIMA IS TIED UP**


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INTERMEDIATE ROUTE

Once you become comfortable with the route, you can fit in a few more deaths during the Beast wait. So, after getting Beast Cursed, do the following:

**WALK INTO OCEAN**

Map to Wonder
Inv: Vial into hunters lamp
hunter's lamp to baby (baby's tears are glitched, you don't actually need the milkweed bottle)
Get teacup
Coal to white queen
**WALK INTO CLINGING VINES**
**WALK INTO SWAMP**
Teacup to swamp, tomato to bump on log, teacup to swamp ooze
**WALK INTO SPIDERWEB**
**HAND ON SPIDERWEB**

Map to Mountain
**WALK OFF THE STEPS (ON BEACH SCREEN)**
**EAT BERRIES**
**WALK INTO FIRE**

Map to crown
Pawn shop, tinderbox for paintbrush (you have to be decently quick to fit this in, can also get the paintbrush later)
Give rose to beauty
Save, then **WAIT TO TURN INTO BEAST**
Give ring to beauty

Hunter lamp to fountain (do not cast spell)
**MAP TO MISTS**
Cast make rain spell, map to mists

Skull to embers
Skull -> hair, egg

Map to Mountain
Charming beast spell

The rest of the route then continues as in the beginner route.