Scarab of RA ------------ Version : 1.5 Date : 2011-04-12 E-mail : zurd33@gmail.com GameFAQ ID : zurd33 Copyright (c) 2007 Zurd - GNU Free Documentation License Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is available at : http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html#SEC1 Scarab of RA is a small addictive rogue-like game. For a complete story and gameplay, see the Links section. Contents -------- 1. Items 2. Enemies 3. Hints 4. Maze 5. Speed 6. Walls 7. Goals 8. Links 9. Changelog 1. Items -------- The number in parentheses is their weight in ounces. - anaesthetic dart gun (160) : use with darts to put animals to sleep - bullwhips (8) : scare away animals - charcoal (1) : write message on wall - compass (1) : know the direction you're facing in the Map - darts (0) : load in the anaesthetic dart gun - first aid kit (16) : recover Health - food (1) : recover Hunger - gold (1) : get prestique points and dollars (Paris market) - key (0) : open the exit door - lantern (48) : see clearer and farther in the maze - melon (4) : randomly drain or give Health - net (80) : entangle animals - nightglasses (112) : see farther in the maze - oil (3) : refill the lantern - plank (160) : cover a trap in the floor - snake bite cure (16) : cure the cobra bite or the poison trap - RA, Crown of (32) : give 1000 prestige points - RA, Scarab of (2) : give 1000 prestige points - RA, Staff of (80) : give 1000 prestige points - ten-foot pole (80) : trigger traps 2. Enemies ---------- - cobra : They can bite with a poison, ignore it, most of the times he doesn't even bite, but if he does, be sure to use a snake bite cure. - lioness : Can maul you which drain your Health but ignore it, damage is very minimal. - monkey : Most annoying ones but the less harmful, they cannot hurt you, they can only steal your items, if they steal something important, just wander the area until it steal something else from you and he might drop the item he's carrying, can also be bribe, try throwing 100 or 200 golds on him and it's possible he will snatch it and run away, he can carry more than one of your item on him. - mummy : Only one appears per level if you grab the Scarab of RA, the only way to kill him is to throw the Scarab of RA at him, don't miss, else it will break, they are worth 500 prestige points, if they touch you, your Health will go down quite a bit, one easy way to kill him is to throw the Scarab Of RA at exactly one space away when he is near you, you'll never miss that way, if he's more than 1 space away, click the clock icon until he's at exactly 1 space away 3. Hints -------- You can carry up to 1599 ounces, that's 100 pounds ! When entering a new maze, always check if there are things right at your feet. Quite often I miss the key there! Some items can be hidden under other items, even if you see an item on the ground that you don't want, make sure you still step on it and check your News window to see if, maybe, there's a key under it, also apply for animals, sometimes you must step on an animal in case the key is under. Useless items not worth carrying : nightglasses, lantern, oil, pole, plank, melon and bullwhip. if you search every square of every mazes, you are destined to die from hunger, food is quite rare, so never pass up food. Also never pass up coal, it doesn't weight much and there is more chances a monkey will steal them. Optimal carries depends on how you play, you must at least have lots of food, a few snake bite cure bottle, a few first aid kits, 2 compasses, a few nets and an anaestethic dart gun if you like it with plenty of darts. If you have the anaesthetic dart gun, use it only on monkeys and only when they're moving at about just 3 or 4 steps away, so don't use them if they're in a dead end. If they are still, the darts will miss them. Be aware that they can still be woke up if you step on them after you slept them. Use the net only on monkeys and only in a dead end unless it's sleeping you can safely throw the net on it. After the monkey is netted, you can step on it to pick up anything he stole from you. You cannot outrun any animals and they are territorial, they won't pursue past a certain point. Traps are annoying (spear, poison, water and wind) but you get minimal damage from them, just use a snake bite cure from a poison trap. Water traps ruin your map and are the most annoying ones. If you want to be able to map again, you must get back to the starting point of the maze! If you're poisoned from either a cobra or a poison trap, your Health will not recover. If you're poisoned a second time, your Health will now diminish with time. You must use a snake bite cure bottle every time you're poisoned. Don't forget to save your game frequently. Be aware that if you die or you finish the game by exiting the maze, your saved game will be automatically deleted. You must copy your saved game to another folder if you want to use it again. By doing that, you can then reuse it many times. You can load a saved game, map a new maze, make a screenshot of the map, quit the game, reload the last saved game that you copied and you will have the new maze mapped in your screenshot. By using the copied saved game trick, there's no end to how deep you can go into the pyramid. As of the 12th of april 2011, my personal record is level 108 and Rip Rapacki is level 200, you can see his record in the About window of the game. 4. Maze ------- Level Dimensions Awarded Prestige points 1 3x3 0 2 4x4 90 3 5x5 160 4 6x6 250 5 7x7 360 6 8x8 490 7 9x9 860 8 10x10 1000 9 11x11 1210 10 12x12 1440 11 13x13 1690 12 14x14 1960 13 15x15 2250 14 16x16 2560 15 17x17 2890 16 18X18 3240 17 19x19 3610 18 20x20 4000 All other mazes have a dimensions of 20x20. 5. Speed -------- Going to the fastest causes these disadvantages : - More chances of waking up a sleeping animals - More chances of triggering a trap - Cannot carry as much items - Cannot automatically map - Harder to spot hidden traps But also causes these advantages : - Health bar regenerate faster - Hunger bar will drop slower - Lantern oil burn slower And going to the slowest causes the reverse effect. So each speed setting has his own drawbacks and advantages. After experimenting with them, I found that moving at a speed of 5 is the optimal speed. You can set the speed to 1 before moving on a trap or a sleeping animal and resuming to a speed of 5 after though. Turning right or left do makes you lose time, hence making you lose Hunger, so everytime you have to turn, just take a glance instead which doesn't make you lose time (with the 7 and 9 keys). 6. Walls -------- Sometimes you will find a few things written on the wall : - Hyeroglyphs : No purpose. - Bank of RA - Gold Deposit : This is where you can deposit your gold. 1 ounce of gold for 5 prestige points and 410.25$ in Paris market. - This the path to the exit : Don't mind it, sometimes it's false. - This isn't the path to the exit : Don't mind it, sometimes it's false. - Kilroy was here : American popular expression, see the Links section. 7. Goal ------- Find the Crown, Scarab and Staff of RA then head for the exit door, after you open it with the key, the game will ask if you want to quit or continue, if you quit, all your gold will be deposited into the Bank of RA and you will gain about 15000 prestige points. Know that to find the 3 items of RA, you have to search each maze completely, if you miss one item in a maze and you go to the next level, you'll never be able to finish the game. Another goal of the game is to go as deep as you can into the pyramid. 8. Links --------- The story, gameplay and more at Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarab_of_RA The company that produces and distribute it and where you can download it : http://www.semicolon.com/Scarab.html Another place in another format where you can download the game : http://macintoshgarden.org/games/scarab-of-ra The Basilisk II software which is an emulator that can be use to play the game, works with Windows, Macintosh, Linux : http://basilisk.cebix.net Kilroy was here : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilroy_was_here 9. Changelog ------------- Version 1.5 - 2011-04-12 - Changed contact information Version 1.4 - 2011-03-06 - A lot more information added everywhere, credits to Rip Rapacki Version 1.3 - 2007-01-24 - License change Version 1.2 - 2007-01-22 Fixed a typo and modified the way it looks in section "8. Top Scores" Version 1.1 - 2006-07-01 Modified : Contents, Section 4, 7, 8 Added Section "10. ChangeLog" Version 1.0 - 2006-06-29 First version