"Torin's Passage" Part 3 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Nobody

Asthenia is a land based on Dante's Inferno, with nothing but rocks and lava. There is a dwelling which suggest that there may once have been people there, but when Torin visits there is no one there but him and Boogle.

Answer: Four

There is a cannon that is hidden underground, and in order to make it appear, you need to balance a see-saw with Torin and cannon balls. Torin = fiour balls or Torin + one ball = five balls.

Answer: One

There is a thin patch of land in the middle of the lava that's a good distance from where Torin stands. That thin patch leads to the way out and down to the next world, so Torin needs to get there. The only way to get there is in the cannon. Also you need to wright just the right amount so that the cannon will take you to safety. If you have too many cannon balls or if you don't have any at all, you will end up in the lava. Al Lowe did this so he could throw in a gag, one of the funniest in the game in my opinion.

When Torin lands on the other side, he lands face down with his face in the mud. Boogle laughs at him. Then the cannon ball falls on Boogle. That puts him in his place!

Answer: He holds ammonia up to his nose

For one brief moment of this game, you play as Boogle. The puzzle is obvious. You are supposed to use the one Boogle ability you haven't used yet, which is to turn him into a nurse. Boogle then attempts CPR on Torin, but he refuses to breathe into Torin's mouth. So he does something quick and easier. He breaks the fourth wall by reaching out to the interface icon and switching from his inventory to Torin's inventory, and he takes the ammonia out of his pocket and hold it up to his nose. The strong smell revives him.

Interestingly, while Boogle speaks his own language, in this part of the game you can make out some of what he says. You can hear him say "Are you okay?" When Torin regains consciousness he says "Thanks Boogle, how did you do that?" Then, Boogle goes back to being incrompehensible.

Answer: The menu

When Torin's tarevling through the pipe, the pipe moves higher up with each screen you go through. Eventually, the pipe is at the top of the screen, and when Torin makes it three quarters away across, he hits his head on the menu and says "Ow! Uh, can you get that?" This is another example of breaking the fourth wall.

The puzzle is simply to click away from the menu. Then Torin will say thank you, and then he'll keep traveling.

Answer: Cruelty to plants

When Torin crawls to the end of the pipe, he realizes that he's high up in the air and it's a long way down. Gravity suspends itself for a second to give Torin time to realize what's about to happen, then garvity reasserts itself. Torin and Boogle fall a long way With Torin screaming "Aaaaaaaaahhh 'catches breath' ahhhhhh" and then "Save us, Boogle!" Boogle misunderstands Torin and he turns into a safe right above where Torin lands. Torin lands through the ground, killing a bunch of plants in a process. It's obvious to us that Torin didn't mean to kill the plants, but Torin is arrested anyway.

The "Torin's Passage" planet is a layered planet where there's one world on atop, then there's a world below that, then there's a world below that, and so on. The Lands Above get all the sunlight, since there's nothing blocking it from getting there, but in order for sunlight to get to The Lands Below, it has to travel through crystals, which make up mountains and cities in the Lands Above and travels through all The Lands Below and end in The Null Void. Tenebrous is the lowest land other than The Null Void, so it gets the least amount of sunlight, making it hard for plants to use photosynthesis and grow. However, in the part of Tenebrous that Torin lands in, plants seem to be growing just fine.

Answer: Dreep

Dreep is Lycentia's pet. He is a blue monster vaguely resembling some kind of monkey. When Torin's in jail, he feels depressed to have come all this way only to be arrested and not knwoing if he will ever find his parents or if Boogle is okay. Boogle appears just outside of the jail cell. This raises Torin's spirits briefly. Then Dreep captures Boogle, making Torin even more sad. Then the cop sets Torin free with a warning.

The capture of Boogle is a symbol to the player that we don't need him anymore.

Answer: She fell in the forest and nobody heard her

Torin comes across a very sentimental sap tree. Since the tree lives in the bottom world, he is very well-rooted, which means that old sad memories just stick to him. Torin tells asks the tree if he knows Lycentia, and tells him that she is an evil sorceress who kidnapped his parents.

The tree doesn't know Lycentia, but he can relate to losing his parents. He was transplanted at birth. His dad was cut down in the prime of his life by a guy chasing a wolf and his mom fell in the forest and nobody heard her. Sadly, this isn't a "King's Quest" game, so we don't help the tree. We just use the sap it cries to capture the silkworms.

Answer: The voice recorder

After asking almost everybody on the planet about Lycentia, Torin meets a sunflower who doesn't know her, but is able to tell Torin about someone who does. It's an old man who works in a theater and records voices. The sunflower helps Torin get to the theater after Torin captures the silkworms that were eating its friends.

In the theater, Torin finally meets someone who knows her. The voice recorder tells Torin that you can't get to Lycentia because she was tossed in The Null Void many years ago, and you can't just freely enter The Null Void because all the exits were sealed off so you can only go there if you're sent there.

The voice recorder considers his tape of Lycnetia's voice to be his prized possession because it is the rarest voice he owns.

However, the voice recorder does not have any voices from The Lands Above, because the recording technology didn't exist the last time people from The Lands Above visited Tenebrous. Torin, being from The Lands Above, offers to have his own voice recorded in exchange for a recording of Lycentia's voice.

The voice recorder accepts that deal.

Answer: A new job

When Torin arrives in the theater, Bags is working for a drunk archer. The archer tires to shoot at an apple that is stuck between the bunny's ears. The arrow hits the apple, but only because Bags moves. Bags then quits. When Torin talks to Bags, Bags tells him that he needs a new job, but he won't just accept any job.

He needs a good place to live and and he needs to be paid on time. Fortunately for him, it just so happens that Zippy the Magician wants a new act and he has a top hat. Torin borrow the top hat and offers it to Bags, who excitedly accepts it, and then he gives it back to Zippy so Zippy can pull a rabbit out of his hat like a real magician. Both of them happily accept this deal.

Answer: Land Beyond Dreams

When you are standing directly behind the curtain, you will hear a few seconds of a song from another Sierra game, or possibly a few seconds of the piano music you heard in Escarpa in King Rupert's place, and then a gong will sound, the music will end, and you'll hear a bunch of sad "Awwws" from the crowd. Songs you can hear include "Consumite Furore" from "Phantasmagoria," "The Ballad of Freddy Pharkas," "Girl in the Tower" from "King's Quest 6," "Cell Block Love" from "Leisure Suit Larry 6," and the main theme of the "Leisure Suit Larry" series. "Land Beyond Dreams" from "King's Quest 7" amazing cannot be heard in this game, even though "Torin's Passage" is basically what "King's Quest 7" would be if Al Lowe designed it.

Answer: Impersonating a musician

When Torin arrives at the theater, everyone thinks he is the new saw player that people have been hearing about. He tries to tell people that he isn't, but no one can imagine what else he would be doing here (except the voice recorder, but that's just one person and he's not in charge) so he has to pretend that he is. Since he obviously has no act planned, he has to improve it.

He does the best he can with his lack of musical ability, but then the cop is in the audience and cries at how bad the performance was.

The cop arrests him for impersonating a musician and violating the probationary period that he gave Torin for the plant-crushing, and then the cop tosses Torin into the Null Void, though not without first accidentally tossing him into the wall and shattering the tape of Lycentia's voice into several pieces.

Answer: Rearrange the pieces of the broken tape of her voice

When the cop first tried to toss you into The Null Void, he instead tossed you into the wall and broke your tape. However, the broken pieces of the tape still work. The original line was "You're not welcome here, you decrepit old creep!" Presumably, Lycentia said that to Pecand at some point. Torin rearranges the pieces of the broken tape to say "Dreep, come here." As Torin correctly guessed, Dreep is dumb enough to fall for this.

Answer: No, she used to be a hero

Lycentia used to be Torin's nanny, hired by the king and queen of The Lands Above. Torin was a baby when his parents were murdered by Pecand. Pecand also intended to murder the baby Torin, but Lycentia saved his life and took him to a safe place, where he was adopted by the Fahrmans and hidden away in a place where Pecand couldn't find him. Lycentia was then arrested for murdering the royal couple and kidnapping the royal baby.

She was acquitted of the former, but convicted of the latter, so she had a metal collar placed tightly around her neck and then was sentenced to The Lands Below.

She was told that the collar can only be removed by a royal person and that if she ever attempted to return to The Lands Above, the collar would choke her to death.

Then, she decided to learn magic so she could remove the collar and get revenge on the judge who wrongfully punished her so cruelly. Pecand, who always believed that Lycentia was innocent, offers to help her. If she kidnaps Torin's adopted parents and tells Pecand where Torin lives, Pecand will become king and remove the collar. So, Lycentia held up her end of the bargain.

As it turns out, the old man who told Torin about Lycentia at the beginning of the game was Pecand. Pecand's goal was to send Torin on a quest that would surely get him killed. After Lycentia tells Torin the truth, so does Pecand. Pecand says "I kiled your parents, and now I'll kill you." Torin backs away, almost into Dreep's supper dish. As he's losing his balance and about to fall into the dish, Torin casts a spell so he switches places with Pecand. Pecand falls into the supper dish, and when he pops back out, Lycentia puts him in the same magic spell that Torin's parents and Boogle were end, and then sends him off out of her house, and away to float off randomly into The Null Void. Lycnetia, now free of her collar, rescues everybody (Torin, his adopted parents, Boogle, and herself) and sends them all back to The Lands Above, just outside of the Fahrmans' house.

Answer: Yes, if you used the bagpipes on Lycentia

If you use the bagpipes on Lycentia, you will get an amusing Easter Egg. Instead of hearing the narrator read the death message that you see on the screen as usual, Al Lowe gives you his own personal message which does not match the message on the screen. Al Lowe says "Don't tell anyone how you get this message," but now that the internet is commonplace, this Easter egg is readily available on youtube.