Part 10: Queen Icebella

Once again, we're free of Cedric for a short time. Let's enjoy it before he inevitably turns up having become king of the wolves or something equally stupid.



Seems simple enough. Let's just carefully navigate this path...




Should be pretty obvious what to do now that we know the know the path on the next screen kills us. Just look at that steep slope...

King's Quest V - Mountain Pass and Sleigh Ride


If you're playing this on, I believe, the floppy disk version of the game (the one with all the shitty copy protection) there's an easter egg you can do here. If you use your cloak on the broken sled... well, just look at the video.
King's Quest V - Easter Egg
Let's just continue on.


King's Quest V - Hungry Eagle






Fine, fine. We'll do what we're supposed to.






We still only have two food items in our inventory. As good as I assume the custard pie is, I don't think our eagle buddy here would enjoy it. This, by the way, is a puzzle we need to solve now. If we go north from here, we're locked into the end sequence for the mountains. After we finish the puzzles there, we're prevented from returning.
Failing to solve this eagle's problems will fuck us over not too far down the road. So let's just give him the rest of our lamb and be on our way.










Well, that was our good deed for the minute. The only exit is to the north and like I mentioned above, it's a point of no return.


King's Quest V - The Ice Queen









This is not a good puzzle. We've got about 5 seconds to convince this woman otherwise.



Once the wolves reach Graham, it's game over. So you have that much time to figure out what to do. Do you remember a few updates back when I mentioned a DMW that lasted until the end of the mountains? Yeah, this is it.
Do you remember the item I told you that in connection with?


Like I said, this is not a good puzzle. The only clue we got for this puzzle was a throwaway line from the third update.
quote:
: ...Now all I have to cheer me up is my harp. It's quite magical, you know. It plays the sweetest music you've ever heard. Now please! Leave me alone in my sorrow.
A line that I'm sure none of you remember, spoken by a character I similarly doubt any of you remember is a clue for a puzzle much later in the game. King's Quest V is kinda badly designed.

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This is actually a really good stopping point for now.
NEXT TIME: The single worst puzzle in King's Quest V.
List of Points
+5 - Sledding
+3 - Fed eagle
+6 - Played the harp for Icebella
Total
142/260
Register of Deaths
Unstable mountain path
Dog food