# Instructions for the game Witchs' Soup

### The witches' sabbath

Since the dawn of civilization the witches' sabbath is celebrated after halloween at midnight. During the celebrations, the high council of the witches is taking its consultations and sipps the traditional witches' soup.
Last year the high council has decided that you are the host of the next sabbath this year and that you have to cook the soup with the proper ingredients, otherwise your gingerbread house will be destroyed by a huge thunderstorm.
Only the freshest ingredients can be taken, so the witch has to start the collecting in the late afternoon of helloween when the cauldron for the sabbath is already cooking. But it is very dangerous to get the ingredients, because they are growing only in the deepest parts of dark caves where many monsters and ghosts are haunting !
The more the light of the day is fading and darkness arises from the graves, the more the witching hour is coming nearer and the creatures of the underground are creeping to the surface....
There are six different kinds of ingredients to drop into the cauldron. Eight toads, eight worms, eight tombflowers, eight pieces sulfur ash and eight vampire herbs have to be added to the soup. The toads are the flesh for the soup, the worms and the tombflowers give thair wonderful taste to it, the vampire herbs are having a delicious aftertaste and the sulfur ash is giving the right smell to the soup.
The last ingredient is a golden cock that has to be given into the nearly readied soup.

### Movement

At the beginning of the game, you are flying on your broomstick directly above your gingerbread house. If you use the cursorkeys, you can move the witch up/down. Left- and rightmovement can be seen as a scrolling of the landscape below you.
During the game it will be needed to land on the ground. To do this, you have to be sure that none of the landscape's obstacles like trees, houses, graves etc. is in your way. To land near of your house, for example, you have to land on the free place left of it. On the ground you can walk with the left/right cursorkeys and jump with shift. If you want to start again with your broomstick, ensure that no obstacle is in your way.
If you are near an entrance of a cave, you can enter it with the up- cursorkey. Herein the scene changes at once. Within this cave, the witch can walk with left/right- and climb or descend ladders with the up/down- cursorkeys. To aviod the countless monsters that are roaming here, you often have to jump over them by using the shift-key.
The magical might of your broomstick only works under the open skies, in this depth it is impossible to fly. You can jump onto movable platforms to ferry accross water or deep abysses.
The witch has three lives. After finding the fourth ingredient of each cave, you will get an additional live.
The full version of this game allows you to save the game, what makes it much easier for you to solve the quest because you don't have to strat from the beginning when all lives are lost. Just press the 's'-key and your position, lives and so far collected ingredients will be saved to your harddisk. If you have lost all of your lives next time, you can start from the last saved position using the 'l'-key.
You can save the game nearly in every position in the game, except when you are standing on a movable platform.