EcoQuest 2: Lost Secret of the Rainforest


Iquitos

Click the hand on your passport in your inventory to find your immunization card, then hand them both to the customs man. Read the sign that the standing man is holding, and talk to him. Walk onto the beginning of the pier at the bottom right of the screen. After Slaughter leaves, talk to the old fisherman. Walk back up the pier, then go east again. Look at the men talking behind the crates, then click the hand on the crates to climb up and eavesdrop. Talk to the tourist. Trash the piece of paper he litters. Look at the boat and the stream of gasoline pouring from it. Walk up to Gonzalez and talk to him. Click the hand on the cargo net. Go west, then come back east. Walk in front of the crates. Buy the parrot from the peddler. Return west and open the single crate next to the boat. Watch the demonstration of how to use the Ecorder. (Town Runoff) Go back east and ecord the stream of gasoline coming from the boat (River Traffic), then go back west. Watch the scene.


The Forest

When you regain control of Adam, first ecord one of the otters (River Otter). Talk to Orpheus twice. Take the amulet from around his neck. Ecord the litter, then clean it up. Ecord the ants on the tree (Leafcutting Ant), the forest floor (Forest Floor), the roots reaching down into the water (Stilt Root), and the bushes (Understory). Pick up the leaf that is next to the dripping sap. Go east.

Ecord the tree twice in two different places (Cecropia Tree and Buttress), and the cut log near the campfire (Logging). Try to climb the tree. Smear the leaf on yourself and climb the tree again. Continue climbing until you exit at the top of the screen. Talk to all the birds and the sloth, and ecord them (Toco Toucan, Scarlet Macaw, Hyacinth Macaw, 3-Toed Sloth). Ecord the orchids (Orchid) and the plant beyond the nest (Epiphyte). Climb up to the next branch and try to walk west. Ecord the boa (Boa). Climb up to the next screen. Talk to each of the birds and ecord them. (Ruby Topaz Hummingbird, Darter, Hoatzin) (Catching the hummingbird can be difficult. Try on the yellow flowers at the left of the screen.) Ecord the red plant between the two birds (Emergent Tree) and the pitcher plants (next to the hoatzin) (Pitcher Plant). Climb down to the bottom branch (yellow orchids), then go west.

Pick some of the purple flowers the hummingbirds were clustered around. Talk to and ecord the bird at the left (Cock of the Rock). Ecord the vine wrapped around the tree trunk (Liana), and the forest canopy (Canopy). Return east, then up to the top. Step onto the branch with the pitcher plants. Click the purple flowers on yourself, then walk past the hoatzin and tip over one of the far pitcher plants. Climb down and watch the egg hatch. Talk to each of the birds and the sloth again. Climb up and talk to everyone up there, too. Then go back down and walk west on the branch the boa was on. Watch the red lizard - that's the path you'll be taking. Talk to the darter again, then walk on the tree branches in the same way the lizard did, and offscreen to the left.


Forest Heart

Walk to the end of the branch - it will bend, but not break. Ecord the village (Village) and the drum lodged in the tree branch (it looks something like a bird's nest). (Drums) Try to walk down the branch towards the bottom of the screen. Ecord the jaguar (Jaguar). Walk to the drum and pick it up. After you fall into the mud, ecord the long house (Long House) and the pig (Peccary). Take the vine next to the mud pit. Ecord the fruits (Bromeliad), then take them as well. Throw a fruit to the pig, then lasso him with the vine and he will drag you out of the mud.

Go east. Ecord the hanging cloth (Weaving) and the plot of plants that are growing behind the house (Agriculture). Put the drum on the stand next to the one that's already there. Pick up the beater and figure out the song on the hide. Write it down. Pick up the drum again.

Go west, then north. Enter the "doorway" into the tree that's closest to you. Put the drum on the stand and play the pattern again. After the vines open, take the drum and head inside the tree. Click the hand on the seat-like structure at the center of the screen. Pick up the branch that Forest Heart gives you. Talk to her to ask her about the "Wise One". Leave the way you came in. Enter the next higher entrance which you can see on the side of the tree, gather some of the seed pods, ecord them (Seed Pods), and leave. There is a third entrance a little higher up (or around) the trunk, which is less visible. Enter it. Pick up the bark cup. (Don't collect the sap yet or you will miss some points.) Leave and return to the village.


The Grove People

Ecord the pot that the woman with the baby is making (Pottery), the squatting man (Body Painting), and his iguana (Iguana). Talk to the woman (Musqui) and show her the bark cup. Talk to the baby. Talk to the squatting man (Apu, the chief). Show him the bark cup.

Go east. Ecord the pot with the fire under it (Masato) and the hunters at bottom right (Hunting). Talk to each of the three women standing around the pot (Sabiru, Cuirana, Alichina). Show them the bark cup. Talk to the weaver woman (Churana) and show her the cup. Talk to the woman sitting by the garden plot (Sumac) and show her the cup.

Continue east. Ecord the bright berries growing across the river (Paint), the man thatching the hut (Thatching), and the bench outside the hut (Shaman's Stool). Talk to the boy, show him the cup, then give him the drum. Talk to the thatcher (Sinchi) twice, then show him the cup. Swing across the river on the vine. Pick some of the berries. Get the necklace that you find under them. Swing back across the river.

Return to the village screen. Show Musqui (the potter) the necklace. Give the necklace to Churana (the weaver). Talk to the chief. Take his machete. Give it to Sumac (the gardener). Give the roots to the rightmost of the three women at the pot (Alichina).

Go back to Forest Heart and go through the third entrance. Fill the cup woth sap. Go back to the river. Put the cup and seed pods on the stool. Leave the screen and return. Get the poultice. Go back to the village and give the poultice to the potter; she will give you a clay cup. Give this cup to the cooks at the pot and they will fill it with a sweet drink.

Go west. When the butterfly alights on the flowers, ecord it (Morpho Butterfly), then use the cup of sweet drink on it. Pick up the cup when the butterfly lands on it. Give it to the man outside the shaman's hut, then follow him inside. Ecord the rattle over the door (Rattle), the mask (Masks), the charm (thing near the mask on the right) (Charm), the bowl of water (Initiation), and the shaman (Shaman). Click the hand on the floor to sit. Click the leaf on the ceiling where the leak is coming from, then sit down again. Put the berries in the bowl. Click on the symbol that is named as the shaman indicates, then click it on your face in the bowl. Give the shaman the branch from Forest Heart. After the vision, pick up the golden blossom that fell at the bottom of the screen. Ecord the bat (Insectivore Bat). Talk to the bat. Show Paquita the amulet. Click the hand on the net to untangle her.


Cibola Campsite

After you're captured and tied up, click the walk icon near the cage to bounce the chair over there. Eat the carrot that's holding the cage shut and Paquita will free you by chewing through the ropes. Exit the room. Take the fax from the machine next to the television. Open the zebra footlocker and take the tennis racket. Take both sheets off the bed, and get the organizer that's under them. Examine the tail of the jaguar rug, then click the hand on it. Get the piece of paper and read it. Click the inventory hand on the organizer, turn it on, and press the button with a key on it. Enter the password (RETHGUALS). Make a note of the numbers (582) - they're the combination to the safe. Open the safe and get everything inside it. Look inside the wallet. Ecord any of the animal items in this room (Endangered Species). Move the rug and click on the hole in the floorboards. Combine the sheets to make a "rope" and use the rope on the hole in the floor. Climb down the rope.

Click the hand on the highest oil drum to hide. (If you get caught, you'll get tied up again.) Wait for Gonzalez to start reading his cookbook. ("Did Forrester's dance make anyone else physically ill?") Ecord the "garden" plot (Poor Soil), the river (Silt), and the ground of the campsite (Clear Cutting). Click the hand on the oil drums in succession to hide behind them. When you get to the bottom-most, wait for Gonzalez to leave the screen. Quickly climb the tower and turn off the alarm (the box attached to the dish). Get the hand vacuum and search the laundry basket to find a pair of suspenders. Tie these to the alarm box, and you will "bungee" back down to the ground. Hide behind the bottom oil drum and get some of the spilled birdseed with the hand vac. Click the hand on the vac in inventory to take the seed out of it. Go back up the line of oil drums and re-enter the shack.

Leave again and Gonzalez will be back reading his cookbook. Exit the screen to the east, taking care to stay behind Gonzalez. Hide behind the crates. Ecord the birds in the cages (Bird Poaching) and the oil drilling operation (Oil Refining). Make your way across to the oil drum by the bird cages, and hide there. Give them the birdseed, then use the key you took from the safe to unlock the cages. Take the axe from the tree stump and use it on the log to make a canoe. Go back inside the shack and talk to Paquita, then return to your canoe. Click the hand on it twice to enter and shove off. Use the tennis racket as a paddle. (...Sure, that'll work.) As you float along, ecord the .... ?? (Burnout) When Slaughter is chasing you, repeatedly click on the far edge of the screen to paddle away from him. Don't worry about the items you lose.


The Underworld

Ecord each of the varieties of bat (except the ones hanging at top left - you can't get those) (Tent Bat, Fishing Bat, Leaf-nosed Bat, Mexican Freetailed Bat, Punk Bat), and talk to all six bats. Show the amulet to the bat sitting at the desk. Pick up the stack of visas and distribute them to the right bats; check your ecorder to find out the scientific name of each of the bats. Give Ectophylla alba to the tent bat, Tadarida chapini to the punk bat, Tadarida brasiliensis to the Mexican freetailed bat, Noctilo leporinus to the fishing bat, Natalus stramineus to Paquita, and Macrotus californicus to the leaf-nosed bat. Talk to each one again before giving it the visa. Show the leftover leaf to the official bat, and exit the cave behind him.

Ecord the bat (False Vampire Bat), the stone with the symbol that looks like two crossed swords (Underworld), the reliefs near the bat (Stone Relief), and the carving at the bottom of the screen (Cosmology Carving). Click the hand on the pole sticking out from the wall near the hanging bat. Talk to him. Click the walk icon on the ground to get down. Pick up the glowing stone at the left of the screen. Place it in the niche at the very tip of the base of the jaguar statue. Answer the ten riddles. (Bulging eyes - Frog. Green on green - Leaf. Strength in jaws - Ant. Misty veil - Cloud. So far away - Sun. Ancient times - Star. Pale face - Moon. Slowly slide - Snake. Vale of silk - Flower. Wings of color - Bird.) Take the golden feather. Exit the screen through the cave at the top. As you proceed down the path, Paquita will enter and then fall down sick. Exit back the way you came; you will automatically talk to Chiropterus and bring him to Paquita. After he gives you the whistle, blow it to clear the bats from the exit, then get in the boat.


The Flooded Forest

After your boat is sunk, ecord the water (Igapo) and the round fruit on the trees (Cannonball Fruit). Swim south. Ecord the lily pad (Victoria Lily). Climb up the vine and pick a banana. Swim north, then east. Ecord the howler monkey (Howler Monkey) and the white thing on the island with the monkey (Piranha). Talk to the monnkey and give him the banana. Climb onto the rock and take the piranha jawbone. Jump back in the water and return west and south to the lily pads. Cut one free with the jawbone. Hop onto the lily pad and head back to the monkey. Get off the pad. Oh great - now you're eagle food! Ecord the eagle (Harpy Eagle). Give the golden feather to the Empress Eagle.


The City of Gold

At the overlook, ecord the two bunches of pink flowers at the bottom of the screen (Passion Flower and Philodendron), the city (Pre-Incan Ruins), and the jutting rock (Seat of the Inca). Clean up the litter. Take the magnifying glass that you find under one of the pieces of litter. Examine the two gold face masks. Click the hand on the one you have in inventory and you wull find a gold disc. Place the mask in the empty space. Pick up the pile of gold discs, and put this on the seat along with the gold disc you found in the mask. Go down the stairs.

Use the magnifying glass to examine the necklace you got from the weaver. This is a map, but it's somewhat difficult to see. The path through the city is basically a loop that doubles back on itself. Ecord the city again (Labyrinth) and one of the short, upright sections of stone (Stela). Head to the right and just follow the path (there's only one way you can go). Inside the high room, ecord the stone above the mosaic (Ritual of El Dorado). Click the tiles until you get a matching border of double yellow stripes all around. Ecord the pipes (Pipes), then take them. Click all the tiles once to get the matching zigzag border. Take the cup and crown. Climb up the wall next to the niche. Click the hand on the carving of a serpent. Exit the room through the revealed doorway.

Click the hand on the islands to jump to them. (Skip the leftmost of the small islands, unless you want to be dunked by a turtle.) Once you are on the island with the seat, click on the water. Wear the crown and play the pipes. After the snake falls asleep, swim to the far island. Ecord the fountain (Fountain) and take the stone cup from the smaller statue. Put the stone cup in the niche near the vines, and put the golden blossom in the cup. Click the hand on the head at the top of the fountain. Show the amulet to the flowers. Talk to them each twice. Turn the head on the fountain again. Take the seedling. Watch the scene. While Slaughter is digging, jump down from the stela. Place the cup of gold dust on the fountain. Use the whistle. Get some water to give to Paquita and heal her. Watch the scene.


Back in the Village

Plant the seedling in the circular space. After you see it grow, before calling Paquita again, turn on the Ecorder and select "Test Myself". For each picture shown, you have to identify which of the two ecorded items it is. When finished with the 10 test items, blow the whistle. Look under Paquita's wing.


Points (note: this only adds up to 978, unless I did the manual subtotals incorrectly, which is possible.)

ActionPoints ActionPoints ActionPoints ActionPoints
Iquitos   Forest Heart cont'd.   Cibola Campsite   The Flooded Forest  
Show passport and immunization card 10 Get seed pods 5 Eat carrot 5 Get banana 5
Talk to man with sign (Nicanor) 1 Go into third entrance 1 Get fax 2 Talk to howler monkey 1
Talk to fisherman 1 Get bark cup 5 Open footlocker 3 Give banana to monkey 5
Eavesdrop on men 5 Ecorder items 9 Get tennis racket 2 Get piranha bone 5
Talk to tourist 1 Subtotal 84 Remove both bedsheets 7 Cut lily pad 5
Recycle wrapper 5     Get organizer 2 Float on lily pad 5
Buy parrot 5 The Grove People   Pull jaguar tail 3 Give pad to monkey 10
Get Ecorder 5 Talk to potter (Musqui) 1 Get paper 5 Show feather to eagle 10
Ecorder items 11 Show bark cup to Musqui 1 Learn safe combination 2 Ecorder items 6
subtotal 44 Talk to baby 1 Open safe 10 subtotal 52
    Talk to chief (Apu) 1 Take items in safe 2    
The Forest   Show bark cup to Apu 1 Move rug 3 The City of Gold  
Talk to Orpheus twice 2 Talk to cooks (Sabiru, Cuirana, and Alichina) 3 Open hole in floorboards 10 Recycle 6 pieces of trash 6
Get amulet 5 Show bark cup to cooks 1 Tie sheets together 5 Get magnifying glass 10
Recycle trash (5 pieces) 5 Talk to weaver (Churana) 1 Tie "rope" to bed 5 Search mask/find disc 5
Get sticky leaf 5 Show cup to Churana 1 Climb down 2 Put mask on relief 5
Use sticky leaf on Adam 5 Talk to gardener (Sumac) 1 Disable alarm 5 Get pile of discs 3
Talk to all 10 birds 10 Show cup to Sumac 1 Get hand vac 5 Place pile on seat 3
Talk to sloth 1 Talk to shaman's apprentice 1 Get suspenders 3 Place single disc on seat 2
Talk to darter 1 Show cup to apprentice 1 Bungee down 5 Seat opens 5
Get flowers 5 Give drum to apprentice 5 Vacuum birdseed 5 Examine necklace with magnifying glass 5
Talk to boa 1 Talk to thatcher (Sinchi) 1 Get birdseed 1 Get through labyrinth 15
Talk to hoatzin 1 Show cup to Sinchi 1 Give seed to birds 10 Match tiles with double stripes 5
Talk to cock of the rock 1 Swing on vine 1 Unlock cage 5 Get pipes 5
Use flower on Adam 5 Get berries 5 Get axe 5 Match tiles with zigzag border 5
Pour pitcher plant 5 Get necklace 5 Make canoe 5 Get cup and crown 10
Watch toucan egg hatch 10 Swing back 1 Talk to Paquita 5 Climb wall 2
Talk to toucans (again) 2 Show necklace to Musqui 5 Enter canoe 5 Pull snake's tail 3
Talk to darter (again) 1 Give necklace to Churana 5 Use racket as paddle 5 Jump to island 5
Go west via tree branch 5 Get machete 5 Ecorder items 7 Wear crown 2
Ecorder items 22 Give machete to Sumac (get roots) 5 subtotal 139 Play pipes 13
Subtotal 92 Give roots to Alichina 5     Swim across lake 5
    Get sap 5 The Underworld   Get stone cup 5
Forest Heart   Put cup of sap on stool 1 Talk to all 6 bats 5 Put cup in niche 5
Walk to end of branch 5 Put seed pods on stool 1 Show amulet to bat 5 Put blossom in cup 5
Get drum 5 Get poultice 5 Get visas 5 Show amulet to flowers 1
Get vine 5 Give poultice to Musqui (get clay cup) 5 Talk to all bats again 6 Turn statue head 10
Get bromeliad fruit 5 Give cup to cooks (get sweet drink) 5 Give visas to correct bats (5 each) 30 Seedling sprouts 15
Get out of mud 5 Lure butterfly with drink 5 Use perch 5 Get seedling 20
Place drum in stand 5 Get butterfly 5 Talk to Chiropterus 1 Put cup of gold dust on fountain 10
Play correct pattern 5 Give butterfly to Sinchi 10 Get stone 5 Use whistle 5
Get drum again 1 Sit down 5 Put stone in niche 5 Heal Paquita 15
Enter tree 1 Patch leak 5 Answer 10 riddles 10 Ecorder items 9
Place drums on stand 5 Put berries in bowl 5 Get golden feather 5 subtotal 214
Play drum again 10 Select correct symbol 10 Use whistle 5    
Get drum again 1 Give branch to shaman 5 Get in boat 5 Back in the Village  
Sit on seat 5 Get golden blossom 5 Ecorder items 9 Plant seedling 25
Get branch 5 Talk to Paquita 5 subtotal 101 Ecorder test 46
Enter middle entrance 1 Show amulet to Paquita 5     Use whistle 5
    Untangle Paquita 5     Look under Paquita's wing 10
    Ecorder items 15     Subtotal 86
    subtotal 166     Total 1000

Ecorder Items

Iquitos: Town Runoff, River Traffic

The Forest: River Otter, Stilt Root, Leafcutting Ant, Forest Floor, Littering, Understory, Logging, Buttress, Cecropia Tree, Toco Toucan, Scarlet Macaw, Orchid, Epiphyte, Yellow-Ribbed Cacique, Hyacinth Macaw, 3-Toed Sloth, Ruby Topaz Hummingbird, Canopy, Darter, Liana, Boa, Cock of the Rock, Emergent Tree, Hoatzin, Pitcher Plant

The Village and Forest Heart: Drums, Village, Jaguar, Peccary, Long House, Bromeliad, Weaving, Agriculture, Seed Pods

The Grove People: Pottery, Body Painting, Iguana, Masato, Hunting, Paint, Shaman's Stool, Thatching, Morpho Butterfly, Charm, Initiation, Rattle, Shaman, Masks, Insectivore Bat

Cibola Campsite: Endangered Species, Clear Cutting, Silt, Poor Soil, Bird Poaching, Oil Refining, Burnout

Underworld: Tent Bat, Fishing Bat, Leaf-nosed Bat, Mexican Freetailed Bat, Punk Bat, False Vampire Bat, Underworld, Cosmology Carving, Stone Relief

Flooded Forest: Igapo, Cannonball Fruit, Victoria Lily, Howler Monkey, Piranha, Harpy Eagle

The City of Gold: Seat of the Inca, Pre-Incan Ruins, Passion Flower, Philodendron, Stela, Labyrinth, Ritual of El Dorado, Pipes, Fountain

Last updated: 5/30/2021