Blood Of The Mutineers is a particularly annoying adventure, especially at the start as you have a few turns to do things before dying. The idea is that you play through and die to realise what you've done wrong.

We start in our cabin with a band of sailors bounding down the corridor shouting "Mutiny!". CLOSE DOOR and BOLT DOOR to stop them and buy us some time. Now head W to our sleeping quarters and U to the bed. GET BOLSTER and GET KEY that we've just found.

Go D then UNLOCK CABINET WITH KEY, OPEN CABINET then EXAMINE CABINET and GET IRONS and GET ARM (from cabinet). Go back E and MOVE TABLE, then CLAMP IRONS TO TABLE AND HANDLE. This should buy us some time to do other things.

OPEN EAST DOOR and go E. Now GET CANDLE and go back W and W again. SEARCH to find a hidden drawer, then EXAMINE DRAWER, EXAMINE DAISY and EXAMINE ANDROECIUM to see that it looks like a button. PRESS ANDROECIUM and OPEN DRAWER then GET MAP. EXAMINE the MAP to see that it's written in mirror writing (we'll solve this later).

Now go E and EXAMINE TABLE. GET HAT and PUT CANDLE IN HAT, then WEAR HAT. Now, DROP ALL BUT ARM and OPEN WINDOW, go S and HOOK RAIL WITH ARM. CLIMB ARM to find ourselves on the deck above.

If we move the boat, the pulleys will squeak, so REMOVE HAT and GET CANDLE, then GREASE PULLEY WITH CANDLE. Go IN and LOWER BOAT, go OUT and N to go back to your cabin and GET ALL BUT KEY.

Go back S and IN and RAISE BOAT. DROP BOLSTER and PUT HAT ON BOLSTER. REMOVE COAT and PUT COAT ON BOLSTER. Now go OUT and LOWER BOAT, then CUT ROPE WITH CUTLASS.

Finally, to get rid of the sailors, go D, D and IN (to the barrel) and WAIT.

Eventually darkness will fall. Now go OUT and we will hear drunken voices from below deck. Go N. EXAMINE COOK and GET COLANDER and GET BAG then continue N. Climb the mast (U, U, U) and enter the crow's nest (IN). GET SPYGLASS and SEARCH and GET LARGE LENS.

We now have one of the sailors climbing up the mast, called "Timid Toms". As we're carrying a bag of flour we can EMPTY BAG so that we look like a ghost and OUT to get rid of the sailor.

Now, head D, D, D and N, N. CLIMB RIGGING and D, D to the boat. Now we need to WAIT until we get the text "The moon was hidden by cloud.", once we see that CUT ROPE WITH CUTLASS and we've escaped the galleon!

We're drifting in a dark place, so WAKE UP to find ourselves drifting in a small boat, rapidly filling with water. REMOVE BOOTS and BAIL WATER WITH BOOTS. Now PUT LARGE LENS IN SPYGLASS and BAIL WATER WITH BOOTS, then, we may need to PUT SMALL LENS IN SPYGLASS and BAIL WATER WITH BOOTS. Now continue BAILing WATER WITH BOOTS until you see the wooden arm (this takes around 10 repeats), then GET ARM. Now alternate between BAIL WATER WITH BOOTS and LOOK THROUGH SPYGLASS until you spot land. Head in the direction that land was spotted (in my case it was NW, NW, N but this is random) and we've made land.

GET ALL and N, U, U, CUT SHRUB WITH CUTLASS, U, U, NE, W. To get by the bambles, WEAR BOOTS AND COLANDER, then W, N. Go E into the cave and continue E. EXAMINE BEAR and GET WHETSTONE and go back W. DROP WOOD and GET LARGE LENS, then FOCUS LIGHT WITH LENS, then WAIT until you stop getting the "Blizzard shivered violently! He felt particularly cold!" messages (about 3 times).

Go W, W, W to the lime grove, SHARPEN CUTLASS WITH WHETSTONE and CUT NOTCHES IN SMOOTH TREE. CLIMB SMOOTH TREE, U to the top of the tree and then SWING ON CREEPER to get to the top of the lime tree. GET LIME, EAT LIME to cure the scurvy. Then SHARPEN CUTLASS WITH WHETSTONE and THROW CUTLASS AT SNAKE to get rid of the snake. Go D, D, GET CUTLASS and SHARPEN CUTLASS WITH WHETSTONE.

Head back E, E, NE, NE and READ MAP; the reflections in the pool make the directions readable. These always seem to be the same, so they're going to be listed later, if they differ, insert whatever was read on the map.

Go SW, SW, N, N, N and N again to the forest, ignore the boar and use the directions printed on the map (E, E, E, S, SE, N, N, NE). Head E, E, E to the rope bridge and then CUT BRIDGE WITH CUTLASS. WAIT for the bridge to start swinging and JUMP.

GET HANDKERCHIEF AND ARM. REMOVE COLANDER and PUT HANDKERCHIEF IN COLANDER, then WEAR COLANDER. Then N and HOOK LEDGE WITH ARM and CLIMB ARM. Go U, U, U, U, E and CLIMB IVY. Go I, D, D to the courtyard tunnel.

Now we have to remove the varan, he will go between sections of the courtyard in a circle, so WAIT until he's at the northeast section, then N, N and U. Then WAIT until the varan is in the north section and PUSH STATUE. Go D, EXAMINE VARAN and GET STAR.

Head back U, U and EXAMINE SLOT, INSERT STAR IN SLOT, then OPEN DOOR and N. Head U and GET TAPESTRY to reveal a door. UNBOLT DOOR and OPEN DOOR and go E and S to the treasure room. Then SEARCH, SEARCH, SEARCH, SEARCH to find all the treasure and GET ALL.

Go back N, W, U, U to the top of the tower and OPEN WINDOW and W. On the ledge we can see our way out, so REMOVE COLANDER and GET HANDKERCHIEF FROM COLANDER. Then SPIT ON PLATTER and RUB PLATTER WITH HANDKERCHIEF. Finally SIGNAL GALLEON to win!

This solution originally appeared in the Classic Adventure Solutions Archive.