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I am at the closing stages of the game in front of the Citadel Bridge. I through some stuff at it and was encouraged by the game's prompt to continue. So I threw everything I had at it but it did not allow me to cross.

I eventually consulted a walk through where the list of items was given. I have all of these and throw them all in, but still cannot get the bridge to come up fully.

There are a few things I did/did not do in the game and wonder if these are having an effect.

1) I did not pay the ferryman upon returning from Canuk's house, I just showed him the coin again (I know...what a cheapskate!), so I have retained this in my inventory so I actually have more in my inventory than the WT (it doesn't work even if I throw everything in and leave the coin in my inventory).

2) I completely forgot to go to the Inn of Isenough, but after consulting the WT I did not think it necessary as the WT does not mention it either. You do not appear to get anything from the Inn.

Anyone have any suggestions as to how I can fully activate the bridge and move on to meet my foe? There is not a certain order that items need to be thrown in is there??

Hi Rick,

Here's a thorough explanations about How to raise the lava bridge . It explains what you need to throw and such.

Hope that partial wt for that specific topic answers all the questions.

MaG

Hi Rick--

I know a lot of people get stuck here. I played it years ago and vaguely remember the same problem but managed to get the right stuff to throw. Here is what the walkthrough said that I used:

At this point you must have the following in inventory:

shield, helmet, arrows, fairy dust,sword, hay, book, bonding plant, fear necklace, knife, tele-orb, thermozz, illuminite, mirror, wire, zorkmids, matches, box, talon,, puzzle, metal thing, boos keys, flask, bow,rope, witch stick, carrots, rag, gold key. At this point the instructions are to start throwing everything into the fire - when enough objects are thrown in the bridge will raise.

I don't know if you need all this stuff, if it even makes a difference (the hints book I have said you have to have at least 7 inventory objects to throw in - just not which ones) - but I had all of it and I made it across okay.

Hello.

I was also stuck here, but found out you needed to get more hay and milk (from the Cow) don't forget you warm your hands first...

Well, thanks all for your help. I have managed to finish, but still a slightly different way. I took the partial WT's advice and went to get the diseased mice and the bat droppings, but the blacksmith had no coins for me to pick up so once again I was stuck.

But I had a brainwave and went back to the zorkmid tree with my sword, but the sword did not work!!! I'll never finish this game

But wait a minute what is that shiny round thing on the ground under the right hand branch. A solitary zorkmid! Hoorah!

The rest is history, well Morphius is anyway.