8 hitpoints are visible, but they can have more. If done correctly, the window will show:Īccompanied with Jaffar's voice saying: YEAH HAHAHA.Ī message appears, "You are worthy of the powers of Jaffar!". You have to press 1 2 3 simultaneously BEFORE the (PoP2) window opens, but AFTER you double click the (PoP2) icon. Hold down the keys 1, 2 and 3 during startup. : step instead of run, drink, pick up, turn with sword Whose firstborn will.Click to enlarge Prince of Persia 2 Macintosh Controls, Hotkeys, Cheats Controls: The ending took me by surprise, and the door is wide open for a sequel. Still, I'd have liked for her to be a more engaging villain, especially because a good WOMAN villain is hard to find.Īs with the prequel, "Thora's Dagger" is a fast-paced and action-packed story with fresh twists on the usual tropes of the fantasy genre. Her brother, her sister, her parents-will she carry on the family line? Does she deserve to? I found little to like about Thora. Thora, the titular character, gets very little time in the spotlight. :) I didn't see how he would ever get out of there again, and back to the horse he had to desert at the edge of the forest, nor how I would forgive him even if he and his horse did survive the night intact. The way I kept shouting at him is a measure of how overly involved I get in stories. The wood chopper Hugin meets is a literary Red Flag Waving, but Hugin proceeds deeper into the forest. Especially when Hugin obeys Ratatosta's orders to enter the enchanted forest, find the three witches, and procure the remedy for undoing the dragon spell. She and Hildi made me wince and cringe, but the men they dominate also set my teeth on edge. Hugin's wife is just as bad, as far as domineering wives go. Hildi means well, but I pity Gier, her husband, the dragon-by-day who gets imprisoned in a dark room to keep him human 24/7. The librarian, Hildi, rose to power not by merit but by luck (or the interventions of a blind assassin and her hummingbirds, and here's hoping that isn't a spoiler). The tavern, of course, is just one little corner in a big novel full of adventure, enchanted forests, dragons, scheming would-be kings and queens, and more dragons. Here, his dragonflies, hummingbirds, lizards, and weirdragons come to life along with the colorful cast of human characters. Fans of the author who also check out his photo galleries will know Chet knows his zoology and botany and has written essays about the microphotography of insects, but that is another story. Too many loved ones are now stone figures, and the very word "basilisk" might trigger those who escaped the evil eye of the lizard - and, yes, the terms are interchangeable: the common basilisk (Basiliscus basiliscus) is a species of lizard in the family Corytophanidae. Hugin, who just wanted to run a tavern, now owns an awesome tavern in the former abode of a wizard-how cool is that?-but he doesn't get to name it The Gilded Basilisk. Once again, clever dialogue and fun, fantastical characters make this novel a great escape from daily life. I have an FB author page and one over at Amazon. My website lookoutnow features over a thousand pages that cover nature photography, cartoons, and games, as well as travelogues from trips to the UK Lake District, Iceland, and the U.S. And after a period of quiet (and thought and contemplation) comes Thora's Dagger, a sequel to the Gilded Basilisk but a novel that can be read independently. My following novel, an SF space opera, Into the Horsebutt Nebula won the P&E award for best cover (one can't have everything, or so it seems). That was followed by Einar and the Cursed City (2014) and Einar and the Myrtledale Conspiracy (2015), each of which won the Preditors & Editors readers poll award for best YA novel. Thirty years later, and ReAnimus Press has published my new fantasy novel, The Gilded Basilisk. In 1984, Space & Time published my novel The Steel Eye to start its book line. I'm an active member of SFWA, with stories in Jim Baen's Universe, Aboriginal SF, and Isaac Asimov's SF, along with a large variety of stories in small press and online publications. A freelancer in book production for forty years, I live with my wife Sue, and our three ex-feral cats, in State College, Pennsylvania.
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