> > You're Carrying:
> >
> > 20 Onions
> > Sack
> > Silver Key
> > Iron Support
> >
> > 2 Tree Branches
> > Small Silver Coin
> > Huge Ladder
> >
> > i have no idea where to go next. i've read other posts with something about an indian and other stuff but they all seem to be far ahead of me. i've given the soothsayer four or five gold coins and the last hint she gave me was something about mythical creatures are vain. i gave the hairbrush to the mermaid and found the cyclops (but can't get past him), but i all i seem to be doing is going in circles. i've been in the cave and met the clown, but i didn't find anything. can someone please help?
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> You gave the hairbrush to the mermaid, that's half of the "mythological creatures are vain" hint. She just needs something she can see herself in.
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> To progress, you will have to do two things:
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> 1) Try going WEST from the general store, not south. There's a path that not only will take you to the Indian, you'll dig up something dirty but worthwhile at the riverbank.
> 2) Once you've found it by the riverbank, go to the royal gardens - it's south of the troll bridge, past the tower. You must defeat a certain not-quite-dead-but-distorted creature and get everything you can from the castle past it. Oh, and that lion's guarding something too.
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> -Mandi "that sucker will NOT fit through that log!" aka Chaos

ok thanks... is the key to getting past the lion in the castle?