Tales of Monkey Island
Chapter One: The Launch of the Screaming Narwhal
Written by:
AKA TrekkieMonsterUK
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[i]...Synopsis
[v]...Author's Screenshots
HINT: Use the bracketed numbers and letters as a way to search through
Spoiler Notice: This whole walkthrough should be regarded as one big
spoiler. I will not be warning you of upcoming spoilers in this piece,
so if you don’t want to know the story, or how to solve a puzzle in
the game (why on Earth are you even reading this then?) please DO NOT
read any further.
[i]... Synopsis: Spoiler Alert - The one and only alert I'm giving in
The world’s favourite pirate is back. Whilst trying to rescue his his
wife, Elaine, from the clutches of the evil zombie pirate LeChuck,
of LeChuck’s zombie mojo, turns LeChuck human, and blows up his own
ship scattering himself, his arch nemesis and his plunder bunny to the
four corners of the Caribbean.
Finding himself washed up alone on the shore of Flotsam Island,
Guybrush sets off on a journey to gain a ship to go and rescue Elaine,
all while his zombie mojo’d left hand is causing more and more
havoc...
[ii]...Characters in this episode*:
Elaine Marley
- Hero's missus... ball and chain... better half....
'er indoors.... Guybrush's wife.
Davey Nipperkin
Captain Winslow
- (Becoming just plain ol’ Winslow later in the game)
- Current captain of the Screaming Narwhal, but not
Joaquin D’Oro
- Treasure Hunter Extraordinaire (allegedly) - likes
Hemlock McGee
* = This list gives the names of this chapter's characters in order
of appearance as they appear in this guide.
The URLs listed are my screenshots of the characters which have
You can click and drag the mouse in the direction you want Guybrush to
move. Alternatively, the WASD keys will move you North, West, South
and East respectively.
-----Walk/Run:
By default you walk everywhere, however if you hold down the SHIFT key
whilst moving you will run.
-----Inventory:
Open with the "I" key, or "tab", and close with the "I"/"Tab" key
-----Pause:
-----Use:
-----Combine Items:
Open Inventory with "I" key, place the two items you want to combine
in the two empty slots on the left of the inventory pane, and click
the red button between them. If the combine is successful a green glow
will surround the items and they will morph into the new item which is
automatically placed in your inventory. If the combine is
unsuccessful, there will be a clunk noise and the items will be
-----Examine Items - Game world:
-----Examine Items - Inventory:
Open inventory with the "I" key, and drag the item to the magnifying
glass icon, or click the magnifying glass icon, and place the
This forms the training area of the game, and introduces the games
Story: LeChuck has captured Elaine, and is gloating over his success.
Guybrush is chasing down LeChuck’s ship intent on rescuing his plunder
Objective: Rescue Elaine and defeat LeChuck
Pick Up Monkey Coffin, and Examine it in your inventory (Receive Root
Combine Root Beer and Breath Mints (which are in your inventory
Story: Guybrush gloats about LeChuck's upcoming demise at the hands
Guybrush's ships hull, causing Guybrush to drop his root beer
Part 2/2: Finish enchanting the cursed cutlass of Kuflu - 2nd Attempt
Talk to Elaine, "Throw me the Rope"
Use "Chuck Root" with Grog barrel on ship deck
Add "Breath Mints" from inventory to "Root Grog" barrel on ship deck
Use your sword with "Fizzy Root Grog" barrel - Receive: Enchanted
Story: Guybrush stabs LeChuck with the sword. LeChuck’s Zombie Mojo is
transferred through the sword to Guybrush’s hand, turning LeChuck
human once again. Guybrush’s voodoo hand then accidentally (on
purpose???) causes the ship to explode, scattering our hero, Elaine
and the human LeChuck to various corners of the Caribbean.
Tales of Monkey Island: Chapter 1 - Launch of the Screaming Narwhal
[Credits]
Story: Guybrush finds himself washed up on Plunder Island, and is
found by a local pirate (name unknown, whom Guybrush’s Voodoo Hand
immediately punches) and local newspaper reporter Davey Nipperkin,
from the Keelhauler Gazette. Nipperkin tells Guybrush that once
ships from leaving the island. Nipperkin says his source "Deep Gut"
[Chapter introduction screen] - (makes a great desktop wallpaper -
Use print screen to copy or download from my screenshot gallery
Objective: Find a ship and a way off Plunder Island
Story: You need to do three pirate-y deeds to give the local reporter
something to write about. He will then tell you who his source "Deep
Gut" is.
Walk around the Dock to the Screaming Narwhal.
Examine the "Socks" on the ship’s Clothesline - Receive: Club 41
Story: Guybrush will show the membership card, he will be blindfolded
and lead into the club. His Voodoo Hand then causes a bar fight, and
Guybrush is ejected from the club. Nipperkin sees what happens and
takes notes to write the story up.
Click on Broken Grogatini Glass - Receive: Grogatini Sword (required
Leave the docks and get to the Plunder Island map screen. Go to
"Jungle Entrance".
Keep heading West until you find "Pile o’ Bombs". Click on them to
Walk up ships gangplank. You’ll slip off and leave a grease puddle on
Climb the ship’s anchor. Capt Winslow will knock you off with burning
coals which will set fire to the grease on the dock, creating "Grease
Fire".
Use "Bombs" from your inventory, with the "Grease Fire" - Receive:
Story: Winslow will rotate the clothesline pulley to take you away
from the ship, but this brings the bombs to him, knocking him off the
ship, and therefore making you the captain, and completing the deed.
Note: Once the bomb is lit you have to complete the task of placing it
in the underwear and boarding the ship via the clothesline quickly,
else the bomb will explode. Should it explode before you board the
ship, you will find a new bomb in your inventory which needs lighting
so you can start over.
Head west one screen - you’ll find Joaquin D’Oro
Story: He will tell you about how he collects Poly-Articulated
Porcelain Power Pirates, and came to Flotsam Island looking for the
rarest of all the "Pee Pee" pirates, Dark Ninja Dave with Killer
Karate Katana. Sounds awesome. He’d been sold a map from some dude in
a plaid jacket and waving arms (STAN!!!!! My personal fave character,
bring him on Telltale!) that supposedly showed the location of Dark
Ninja Dave.
Before you leave D’Oro, distract him (Say: Look, its Dark Ninja Dave!)
Steal one of his Poly Articulated Porc... Oh, I’ll just call them
DOLLS! - from the pile at his feet.
(These are D’Oros "Pink Pajama Pierre" extras) - Receive: Action
Story: On your first play thru the game you would probably think of
Head back to Docks.
Go to Keelhauler Gazette
Dip "Action Figure" in the Vats of Printers ink ("Ink Vat") - Receive:
Combine "Ink-Stained Action Figure" and "Grogatini Sword" (both in
Go back to Jungle Entrance, its time to follow the treasure map.
Go to the Well - From the Jungle Entrance go.... West (lower looking
path), then North
Hint: The map shows you need to start at the well, and then it follows
a weird line with pictures of boards, bees, birds and monkeys. When
you get to the well, use the map with the well (the screen will shake
to show that the treasure hunt has started), as you move further down
each available path you will hear a sound, either BIRDS | BEES | BOARS
| MONKEYS, so using the map for reference, follow the appropriate
sounds to the treasure. If you follow the correct path, Guybrush will
comment positively. If you don’t, he’ll say "Damn!" (or something
equivilent) and you'll have to start over.
The quick way there, starting at the well is:
East | East | North | South | South | North (the upper path) | West
Click on "X marks the Spot" - Damn, someone has already been here and
Place "Ninja Action Figure" from your inventory into the hole. Time to
tell D’Oro the great news!
Click on the icon to return to Jungle Entrance. Go west (lower path)
Click on D’Oro
Story: Guybrush takes D’Oro to the treasure, Nipperkin witnesses the
find. Deed 3 is complete. Nipperkin gives you a map showing where
Deep Gut is, written on it is the word "Deadline".
Return to Jungle Entrance, head West | North | North | North to find
"creepy shack".
Knock on front door of shack, give the password of "Deadline".
(d)...Part 2/3: Use Deep Guts help to stop the Flotsam Winds and get
Story: Deep Gut is none other than... *drumroll please* ... The
Voodoo Lady! Yayyyyy! And she’s just as spooky and cooky as ever. And
she’s about much use as ever too... in other words she talks the talk
but doesn’t walk the walk. She tells you that you are infected with
the Pox of LeChuck and only "Le Esponja Grande" ("The Big Sponge???")
can cure him of it. But, that’s not on Flotsam. The only person who
knows where it is, is the VL's ex-boyfriend. He’s on the the Jerkbait
Islands. During the conversation, you... Receive: Locket.
Once you've regained control...
Talk to: Skeleton Parrot, and pick it up - Receive: Pyrite Parrot
Story: VL tells you that that the scroll supposedly leads to the
answer to the winds problem of Flotsam, but its in an indestructible
bottle! She purchased the scroll "from a bitter old pirate named,
McGee".
Leave the creepy shack.
Story: Nipperkin asks you your opinon on "The Death Cloud"- Eeek, the
pox of LeChuck has formed a large green cloud over the island! We have
to save them! Don’t we?
Talk to the "Crusty Pirate" outside the Court House... It’s McGee!
Story: McGee tells you a sob story about how he lost both his legs to
the local surgeon/doctor, the Marquis De Singe. We should go talk to
him, maybe he can help with Guybrush’s poxy hand. McGee also tells us
how he was investigating the winds on the island. Make sure you talk
to him thoroughly and you’ll... Receive: Eye of the Manatee
Ask if he can break bottles.
Story: Crimpdigit will show you a gizmo for breaking his unbreakable
bottles, however he wants money to do it. But, Guybrush is broke,
skint, "Jurassic Brassic", got no dosh/money... so, we need another
way to get hold of that gizmo.
Fire the Cannon.
Return to Crimpdigit, he’s gone, but his gizmo is there, pick it up.
Combine "Unbreakable Bottle Breaker" and "Indestructible Bottle"
Story: Guybrush’s hand stops him breaking the bottle, so we better go
see the Marquis de Singe to see if he can control the Pox of LeChuck
Go to Doctors house.
Click on Flower Pot, it drops off the wall, pick it up.
Story: The Marquis will bring you into his surgery. He’s fascinated
that Guybrush’s hand has a mind of it’s own... or a mind of LeChucks
own. Heh. He promptly ties you down to his surgery table to cut off
your hand. He injects your hand with a grog based concoction, which
handily (heh) subdues your hand. Then, fortunately for Guybrush, the
Rotate the chair left, and bring Guybrush’s feet up (WASD controls the
Click on the key.
Rotate the chair so your feet are in front of the monkey’s cage.
Rotate the chair to the left, and ding the desk bell. This causes the
monkey to change the picture.
Lower chair so your feet can use the foot pedals.
Note: The left pedal electro-shocks the monkey; the right pedal drops
Use Banane pedal to drop a banana. Doing this makes the monkey look at
the screen and jump to where the screen shows. The monkey will now
jump to the mouse wheel.
Rotate your chair to face us (the player), make sure your feet are
Rotate chair to the left, raise your feet, and click the box of
Projector Slides. This adds the X-Ray to the collection.
Ding the bell til the Skeleton Hand (your xray) image is showing.
Drop a banana to make the monkey go to the skeleton hand.
Ding the bell to show the Pirate image.
Important Note: No monkeys were harmed in the production of this
Story: Guybrush now escapes the Doctors clinic. When control
Combine "Unbreakable Bottle" and "Unbreakable Bottle Breaker" -
Combine "Ancient Scroll" and "Eye of the Manatee" - Receive: Hemlock’s
It’s map following time again. We need to follow the sounds like
before, so bearing that in mind, we need to first get to the alter.
From the Jungle Entrance, go west (upper looking path) one screen to
get to the altar.
Use Hemlock’s Map with Altar. Guybrush does a jig, and screen shakes
as before to launch the hunt.
At the calendar, walk around it anti-clockwise til it goes green, the
screenshakes.
Story: Guy brush finds the Manatee-topped shrine doorway ("Ancient
Portal"). He hides in the bush, and finds the Marquis leaving the
doorway, closing it behind him, talking about how he’s controlling the
winds to keep his business flourishing. High winds + Ships =
Shipwrecks = Injuries = Business for the doctor. We need to get that
Use "Unbreakable Bottle Breaker" from your inventory with Crystal Nose
Use "Pyrite Parrot" from your inventory with the "Nasal cavity" (hole
Pick up "Weird Door Face" - Receive: "Ancient Door Face"
Use "Cheese Wheel" with Jail Carvings, under the Jail windows -
Return to Doctors Clinic and ask DeSinge if he really knows nothing
about the winds. He will deny it. Accuse him of being behind them,
he’ll ask you for proof. Tell him you have proof (you show him the
Story: Guybrush returns to his bush by the manatee door/ancient portal
door. He sees DeSinge come and open the door, and follows him in
picking up the key staff that DeSinge had left behind in his panic to
Story: Guybrush has found the "Ancient Wind Control Device" but
DeSinge tells him that a goofball like Threepwood would never be able
to work out which of the Wind Gods are needed to change the winds.
When control returns, Guybrush is stood next to one of those clam
switches. There are four scattered around the island, you've no doubt
noticed some of them as you've travelled around, and you need to go to
each, use the "Ancient Tool" and Wind Vane to line up the images and
As Guybrush is stood at one of the clam switches we might as well do
this one first.
But, before we use that, we must Use "Ancient Tool" with clamshell
next to the Ancient Wind Control Device first. This opens all four
clamshell switches and ancient idols.
Note on Idol Travel: If you’ve already discovered the four idol
locations, you can use the island map to run straight them and can
-----Idol 1: God of Winds that Knock your Hat Off
As mentioned, this is the Mysterious idol with the Large wind control
Use Wind Vane with Mysterious Idol.
Use Ancient Tool with Clamshell switch to activate the wind god.
Story: If you’ve done it right, the idol will lower, Guybrush will
receive the windvane again, and a short cut scene will follow naming
the wind god idol you’ve just used. So, 1 down, 3 to go. However, at
the end of the scene, LePonce- sorry I mean the Marquis will turn up
with a wind gun, shoots you with it and blows you to another part of
the island map.
-----Idol 2: Wind that makes you reconsider wearing shorts
From Jungle Entrance go: West (lower looking path) | West again ... to
find a "strange idol" with a missing wheel. You should have already
used the cheese wheel with the jail carvings, (if not, go to the
Place Imprinted Cheese Wheel on the "Strange Idol".
Place Wind Vain on Strange Idol.
Click Strange Idol, rotate faces to line up and match the face showing
Story: Again, if you have done this correct, the screen will shake,
D’Oro will unwittingly reveal which wind god you’ve activated, and
-----Idol 3: God of Broken Wind
From Jungle Entrance go: West (lower looking path) | West (Strange
Click Enigmatic idol, rotate faces to line up and match the face
showing on the Wind Vain. This idol is missing the correct nose, so
Story: Again, if you have done this correct, the screen will shake,
D’Oro will unwittingly reveal which wind god you’ve activated, BUT
DeSinge will NOT appear this time. 3 down, 1 to go.
-----Idol 4: God of... Unknown
From Jungle entrance go: North (upper looking path) | East
Note: You must activate this switch last. If you arrive at it before
activating the first three switches, and try to activate it Guybrush
Story: Guybrush will bump into the DeSinge again. Just as he is
Distract DeSinge’s attention (Say: Look its King Louis!) and insert
the "U Tube" from your inventory into the rifle muzzle.
Story: DeSinge finds himself becoming the new spindle for the Messed
up Idol.
Use Wind Vane with Messed Up Idol... it wont work, but it’s a funny
Click on the messed up idol, and line up the face panels accordingly.
DeSinge will moan every time you move a panel, but from moans of agony
when you have the wrong panel, there’s a near orgasmic groan when its
Use "Ancient Tool" with clamshell switch.
Story: The winds from the ancient wind device clear the Pox of
LeChuck Death Cloud, and make it possible for ships to leave the
harbor and enter the surrounding seas. Guybrush finds himself standing
Tell Winslow to set sail for the Rock of Gelato... oh no, that bloody
hands causing trouble again!
Use ship wheel - Guybrush’s sudden ship turn move the tar barrel to
Use cannon - this will leave tar over the ship’s deck.
Use Map - Guybrush will punch himself onto the deck and his hand will
With your hand stuck in the tar, click on Winslow.
Story: The ship sails off into the sunset and arrives at the Rock of
Gelato. Looking through his spyglass Guybrush sees something that
shivers his timbers, and a female voice comes from nowhere saying
"Guybrush Threepwood, I’ve been waiting for this moment" and a sword
is placed on Guybrush’s throat...
Note: We don’t see who this sneaky attacker is, but Im guessing it’s
the Sword Master from the original game, The Secret of Monkey Island.
Coming Next - Tales of Monkey Island: Chapter 2 - The Siege of Spinner
I've added over 20 Tales of Monkey Island: LotSN screenshots to my FAQ
http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/image/960379.html
Alternatively, here's the full list with links to the screenshots...
http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/image/960379.html?gf=2
Joquain D'Oro - Treasure Hunter and "Poly-Articulated Porcelain
Power Pirates" collector
Elaine - Guybrush's Wife (and "Plunder bunny")
Hemlock McGee (after catching the pox from the "Death Cloud")
Guybrush's Poxy Hand ("The Pox of LeChuck")
Jason D. - aka TrekkiemonsterUK
Author Email:
Jason D.
monkeyguide@coolthud.co.uk
Copyright:
Tales of Monkey Island: LOTSN is copyrighted to TellTale Games. This
includes all character names, locations and interlectual propertly.
This written guide is copyrighted to the writer, Jason D. aka
TrekkiemonsterUK.
If you see this guide elsewhere please let me know. If you wish to
include this guide on your website please notify me first and ask,
thanks.
I hope you all enjoy this guide to Tales of Monkey Island Part 1.
This is my first ever walkthrough so please bear with me if theres
some mistakes or faux pas made. Comments are welcomed at the email
This guide is dedicated to my family and friends.
Finally, in the words of the great Trekkie Monster from Avenue Q, the
internet is..... FOR PORN!!!!
Hubba Hubba!
Jason D.
V1.1
- Whoops, I had said Guybrush washed up on Plunder
Island... doh! It was of course Flotsam Island.
- Added "Story:" update for where Guybrush first creates
- Repeat after me, Crimpdigit, not Grimdigit.....
v1.2.1
