Now that Chapter 2 has begun, it's time to explore the Vulcanix Underground and become a human again.
You are now in a bedroom. There is a picture of King Otar on the wall. Rosella will be sitting on the bed when you are here for the first time, but if you click anywhere, she will stand up.
At this point, you'll be playing as Valanice for the odd-numbered chapters and Rosella for the even-numbered ones. As you go through the game, you will notice that both Valanice and Rosella seem out of character compared to previous games; Valanice bawls at the sight of Rosella's golden comb and comes off as a weaker protagonist compared to previous games even though this is the only time in the series you ever play as her, while Rosella comes off as spoiled and prissy compared to how mature she was in the fourth game. It's like Roberta Williams and Lorelei Shannon forgot who they had as the main protagonists and changed the characters completely.
If you look into the mirror, Rosella will not exactly like her appearance. If you click on the bed, Rosella won't much like it, either.
Go ahead and leave the room through the door. The woman in the background from earlier confronts Rosella, knowing that she is really a human and not a troll and accuses her of trying to usurp the throne of the Vulcanix underground. Rosella cries (to be fair, she did this in the beginning of the fourth game), and the female quickly apologizes and tells her that King Otar has been acting strange lately and that an evil woman has been snooping around.
The female troll introduces herself as Mathilda, nursemaid of King Otar back when the king was young. She tells Rosella that she has a way of turning her back into a human again, but she has to do something for her: go up to the kingdom of Ooga-Booga above ground and investigate why the civil relationship between Ooga-Booga and the Vulcanix underground has been threatened with anyone above ground threatening to attack anyone from the underground. Mathilda thinks the old woman that has been snooping around is the cause of it, but she does not know for sure.
Mathilda then asks Rosella to bring her baked beetles, a crystal dragon's scale, water of emerald, a silver spoon and a gold bowl. (She will repeat the ingredients if you click on her.) With these ingredients, Mathilda can turn Rosella back into a human. After this, a girl troll shows up and shows disappointment with her new toy: a wind-up toy rat. When her mother calls for her, the girl troll discards it before leaving. Go pick it up; this will be your first item and it will prove to be useful later on.
To the left of the throne is a shield, which you can pick up. If you look at it with the eye, you can click on the spike and remove it from the shield.
The red area to the left of the shield is the lava baths. If you head over there, you'll meet two male trolls bathing it what looks like lava. If you talk to them at this point, they will be asleep. Guess you'll have to come back later.
Go through the cavern in the lower-right corner. This leads to a bridge. In the background is a mine cart that you can use, and nearby is a lift that leads to above-ground that you cannot use yet, as Rosella says it is not very stable when you click on it. If you try to cross the bridge, a huge troll will block your path and will not cross you give him a thousand pieces of lead and a rat-on-a-stick. If you click on the troll again, Rosella will try to use her royal power in Daventry to try to get him to move, but to no avail. The troll will also identify himself as Brutus Bonecrusher. IF YOU TRY TO WALK THROUGH HIM TWICE, THE TROLL WILL THROW YOU INTO THE LAVA AND YOU WILL DIE.
To get past the troll, you will have to use the mine cart. Click on the cart to get a closer look, and use the shield on the mine cart in place of the missing wheel. When you do this, be sure to look at the shield with the eye and remove the spike from the center of the shield if you have not yet done so, then put the shield on the cart before putting the spike on the shield itself. IF YOU DO NOT PLACE THE SPIKE, YOU WILL FALL INTO THE STREAM OF LAVA NEARBY AND DIE. YOU WILL ALSO DIE IF YOU CLICK "RIDE" WITHOUT ADDING A WHEEL. YES, YOU DESERVE TO HAVE THE TROLL LAUGH AT YOU. You can then click on the "Ride" button, and Rosella will ride on the mine cart, knocking the troll into the lava and freeing the path to the right, The cart will be destroyed, but you don't need it anymore.
In the next area, follow the path. You will hear a constant sighing. At the end of the path is a crystal dragon guarding a large pile of red jewels. If you talk to the crystal dragon, you will find out that the dragon is depressed and fearful of never becoming happy again because she has lost her spark. If you click on the dragon again, she says that she has said exactly what she meant and that her world has grown cold. This is a clue for what to do.
When you come back to the starting point of this chapter, the game will act like walls and accurate pathfinding doesn't exist, then an older woman in pink and black shows up at the central hub of the level and heads towards the lava baths. Well, it's later. Head back to the lava baths, and Rosella will eavesdrop as this woman calls one of the trolls a revolting beast before leaving. Both of the male trolls in the lava will make fun of her after she leaves.
Now that the trolls at the lava bath are awake, you can talk to them. You will learn the nasty woman's name is Malicia, and that all that is supposedly known about her is that she is an evil fairy cast out of the kingdom of Etheria in the clouds and that she now hangs out in the Vulcanix Underground all of the time. It also becomes apparent that everyone is afraid of her.
If you click on the throne, Rosella will fool around and pretend to be King Otar.
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