"Torin's Passage" Part 2 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Kidnapping the royal baby

In the prologue for chapter 3, we learn that the young woman whom we saw in the introduction is Lycentia, the sorceress we are seeking. She is in court mainly because she was accused of murdering the royal family. The judge couldn't find evidence to convict her of that, but he does have evidence of her kidnapping the royal baby. So for that, she got banished to the Lands Below. To make matters worse, they put a giant collar around her neck and hastened it real tight and told her that if she tried to return to the Lands Above, the collar would choke her to death.

What makes this awfully cruel punishment even more horrible, is that it's entirely unjust. Lycentia wasn't kidnapping the baby. She was rescuing it. She got literally the opposite of what she deserved. This is one of the saddest things ever in my opinion.

Sadder still, Torin doesn't see any of this. We, the players see it but he doesn't.

Answer: Escarpa

When Torin finally gets access to the phenocryst in The Lands Above, it takes him to Escarpa. In Escarpa, he meets a lot of short wierd characters.

Answer: The Bitternuts

When you go to that house, the screen suddenly turns to black and white, and you see the inside of a house with a grumpy old lady, a quite male cook, and a child. Every time somebody says a line, a laugh track plays (even though none of them are funny). This section of the game is meant to parody 1950s sitcoms, and it's about as funny as the average sitcom.

Answer: The king and queen

The queen has a habit of whispering things about the king that are not very nice. The king then says "Eh? What was that?" The queen then speaks up and then says something that sounds similar but is completely different from what she originally said. You'll come across this same running gag in "Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist" if you show all your items to the banker.

Answer: The king never invites her to any social events

Mrs. Bitternut tells Torin that she hates that the king never invites her over to any parties. Torin resolves that by giving the king a crystal shard to complete his collection of crystal shards. The king rewards him with an invitation the the Royal Ball. Torin doesn't want it, since he doesn't plan on staying in Escarpa for long, so he gives it to Mrs. Bitternut. Mrs. Bitternut then promises Torin that he can take anything from her house as a reward.

She doesn't keep her promise for long. When Torin sees something he wants she is quick to stop him until her son tells her to let him have it.

She gives into her son's request, but then tells Torin not to take anything else.

Answer: Send food flying near it

One of the head would've just gladly moved aside and let Torin pass, but the other head is apparently in charge. The trick to this puzzle is that you can't just give it food. That won't make it move. Instead, you have to utilize a ramp-like rock that's jutting out right above and drop some food down the ramp so the vulture chases it.

The nice thing about this is that if you just give it the food, at least you can always go back to the king and queen's place and get another thing of meat. In most earlier Sierra games if you wasted an item like that, you'd never be able to get the item back and the game would be unwinnable. This game can't be made unwinnable.

Answer: Dragon poop

In a classic moment of Sierra moon logic, Torin must go into a stinky cave. He picks up a tile, which makes sense, but then he decides he wants to see more of the cave for some reason. Well, he can't fit through that tiny hole, so he sends Boogle, and, after some shape-shifts from his pet, Torin sees something in the cave and says "Wow, Boogle! It's brown and soft and smells terrible. We just got to have some of that!" Torin then tells Boogle to turn into a shovel so he can get some of it. Boogle is understandably reluctant, but Torin is his boss.

When we get the item, the game tells us that it's dragon poop. Torin then drops some of it on the tree and says "this will either make the tree grow, or kill it completely." Amazingly, the former happens. Torin pulled a Roger Wilco and succeeded with dumb luck.

Answer: Climbing down the ladder

Although Boogle can't talk, you can tell by the sounds that he makes that he does not want to do any of these things. However, Torin needs the Boogle shovel to get the dragon poop. He needs to get to the other cliff to get four of the tiles he needs. Lastly, the lower area has a lot of things that Torin needs.

However, when you tell Torin to climb down the ladder, he says "This ladder looks a little rickety, but I'm going to try it anyway." Boogle makes a sound that basically means "WHAT!?!?" In this instance, Boogle turns out to be right. the ladder falls apart immediately, and Torin falls to his death.

Interestingly, the death message says "Don't believe signs?" but the sign shows nothing more than a butt and a red circle with a red diagonal line drawn through the butt. I don't see how you would get the message from that sign.

Answer: Skunks

Torin encounters two talking skunks who won't let him pass. He gets pass them by using a clothespin on his nose so he can't smell them and a red carpet as a shield. The skunks give Torin everything they got, but all they can do is stink up the carpet.

They then runaway scared. Torin decides to keep the stinky carpet in his pocket. Somehow, a skunk-sprayed carpet does not bother Torin, Boogle, or anyone he encounters while he's carrying it.

Answer: A comfortable seat

Veder spends all of his time sitting on a rock and thinking about deep, philosophical questions. This is quite uncomfortable, and he points that out. Torin gives him a cushion he can sit on. Veder rewards him with what he calls "the instrument of my torture" and what the rest of us call a tile.

The music that plays during this part is very nice. It's unfortuante that it only plays on this one screen.

Answer: A reason

Torin sees a lot of interesting and similar looking tiles. He wants to collect them all. The king of Escarpa will not let Torin take his tile unless he has a good reason. To do that, Torin needs to find a place that could properly hold these tiles. Torin finds something with a board that could perfectly hold nine tiles. Torin then tells the king about what he saw, and that he thinks it could lead to the next world.

The king then agrees to let Torin have the tile.

Answer: Frowning

This is a sliding puzzle where you have to put each tile in the correct location and then rotate the tiles to form an image. Personally I hate these puzzles in general, and I hate this one in particular because they don't give you a hint for what the image is supposed to be (unless you use a hint). If you can get the image correct, the face will come to life, and it will tell you that the doorway leads to a phenocryst that takes you to the next world.

Answer: Fatter

Lycentia has gained a lot of weight ever since she was banished to The Land Below. She is also older and grumpier. I can't say I blame her. If you think you've been treated unfairly in your life, but you're capable of playing this quiz and reading this, at least be thankful that life hasn't been anywhere near is unfair to you as it was to Lycentia. Chances are, you never literally saved a baby's life only to be sentenced to life in prison and given a collar that will choke you to death if you tried to escape.

Once again, Torin does not see any of this, and he still believes Lycentia is the villain

Answer: A king, queen, prince, or princess

Pecand tells Lycentia that he believes that she is innocent, and he wants to remove the collar from around her neck. Lycentia tells him that only a person of royalty can do that. Pecand tells her that he plans to become the next king, if she helps him. Pecand then says to Lycentia "If you do a small favor for me, I will do a large favor for you." We learn what all of this was later, or maybe you can guess it.

Once again, Torin never sees any of this.

Answer: Leenah

In Escarpa, the king and queen told Torin that their daughter, Leenah, was missing, and that Torin should find her. The queen gives Torin her locket so he can prove to Leenah that he is a good man (otherwise, she won't believe that). Other people in Escarpa also told Torin that he should meet Leenah.

They describe her is a woman who's pretty, has a nice personality, and is kind to her parents. Torin finally meets Leenah in Pergola. The Pergolans capture Torin, and if Torin speaks up quickly enough, he convinces them to let him go.

They also tell him that they have captured another giant, but one who is far less gentle than he was. The other giant turns out to be Leenah. Leenah is afraid of Torin, but Torin wins her over by opening the locket that he got from her mother and showing it to her. Leenah then tells Torin that she has a knife hidden in her shoe and that he needs to get that knife and cut the rope s with it.

When he does that, Leenah lets Torin keep the knife as a gift for saving her life (so Leenah is a lot like Lady Celeste from "King's Quest 6"). Torin and Leenah have a nice romantic moment. Leenah says that she never felt at home in Escarpa. Everybody there mocked her because she was taller than all of them, but she feels all right around Torin because he is as tall as she is.

This suggests that Leenah is probably actually from The Lands Above, and like Torin, she has been living with foster parents her whole life and didn't know it. However, we never learn of Leenah's backstory in "Torin's Passage." According to Al Lowe, "Torin's Passage" was supposed to be a series not just one game. Future games would have expanded on Leenah's backstory, and we would've played as her at some point. However, due to the decline of Sierra and adventure games in general, no sequel to "Torin's Passage" was ever made. So, Leenah and Torin have one nice romantic moment together in Pergola. Then Leenah goes back to Escarpa and they never see each other again.