The Secret of Monkey Island Walkthrough

Full list of Carla's Sword Fighting Insults/Replies

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Carla's Insult: My last fight ended with my hands covered in blood

Reply: I trust now you've learnt to stop picking your nose

Carla's Insult: My tongue is sharper than any sword

Reply: First you'd better stop waving it like a feather duster

Carla's Insult: Only once have I met such a coward

Carla's Insult: My name is feared in every dirty corner of this island

Carla's Insult: I will milk every drop of blood from your body

Carla's Insult: Every word you say to me is stupid

Carla's Insult: Have you a boat ready for a quick escape?

Carla's Insult: If your borther's like you, its better to marry a pig!

Carla's Insult: I've got the courage and skill of a master swordsman

Reply: I'd be in real trouble if you ever used them!

Carla's Insult: You are a pain in the backside, Sir.

Carla's Insult: There are no clever moves that can save you now

Carla's Insult: No one will ever catch me fighting as badly as you do

Carla's Insult: My sword is famous all over the Caribbean

Reply: Too bad no one's ever heard of YOU at all!

Carla's Insult: My wisest enemies run away at the meer sight of me

Reply: Even before they've smelt your breath?

Carla's Insult: I usually see people like you passed our on the tavern floors

Carla's Insult: Now I know what filth and stupidity really are:

You need to counter five of Carla's insults to win. At the end of the dual

Carla, the sword master, will surrender and say you've

won. You'll receive a T-shirt as proof of beating the sword master for the

Scumm Bar pirates and show them how successful you've been with the trial,

After completing your first trial a cut scene will play, where LeChuck's

lieutenant ("Bob") breaks the news about Guybrush's antics on the island. Bob

Return to the Meléé Island map, and click on the "village" location. From the

Answer with "No but I had barber called Domonique". The dodgy man will offer to

sell you a treasure map for 300 pieces of eight. Buy it. On it are "Dancing

Instructions" and Guybrush thinks he's been ripped off, but actually they are

directions to the secret treasure of Meléé Island.

Return to the Meléé Island map, and click on the "Fork" location. From here you

North | You should see the yellow flowers |  West. You should see campsite |

North | North | East | West | North - You'll see a garden full of red flowers |

You are now at the treasure's secret location, and it seems that X really does

mark the spot. Use your shovel on the X and you'll dig up the treasure, and

Scumm Bar pirates and show them how successful you've been with the trial,

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Return to the Meléé Island map, and click on the Village. Head into town, go

through it to the screen with the church and the store. You'll see a "Pssssst"

you'll hear it too (w00t for voice acting!!!!).

Head west, go through the arch to head towards the governor's mansion.

Outside the mansion are a tied up group of killer "Piranha Poodles", and

from the Scumm bar. This creates "Meat with Condiments", give this to the

appears from the upstairs door and declares he needs a file. You'll also find

he will not talk to him ‘cos he's got halitosis (bad breath).

and you'll find a file. Ohh silly, silly Otis! Doh!

Hurray, you've completed the three trials, you can now go to the pirates and

You find yourself on the Dock in the village on Meléé Island. Fester has tied

When you return to the docks, you'll see LeChuck’s ghost ship sail off into the

sunset (proverbially speaking, as it's nighttime). The old lookout gentleman

Pirate and his future "Plunder Bunny" Elaine Marley - Governor of Meléé Island.

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She's the easiest crew member to obtain. Simply return to her hideout, tell her

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Go to the Meléé Island map screen. In the Northeast corner of the map you will

You'll slide over to the island. Go to the house's door, open it, go inside.

Note: Once the parrot's door is open, your usually commands will change to a set

Return to the Meléé Island map screen, click on the village, and return to the

Elaine, and how she was such a big help to the cook. You don’t need do this to

progress the story but there’s some funny lines in the dialog which make it

Go into the kitchen - the cook wont stop you, he's too busy sobbing - and use a

way, then "use" the grog on the prison lock. This releases Otis. Ask him to be

you sail so it's not a problem that he's tricked you at the moment.

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Return to the Meléé Island map, click on the bright lights. This takes you to

"Stan’s Previously Owned Vessels". Stan is a maniac. Wearing a bright, long,

around like he's talking in semaphore.

the jetty. The famous "Sea Monkey". When he asks you how much you have to spend,

skipper! As you leave Stan's to go to the storekeeper, Stan jumps you again and

Return to the Meléé Island map, go to the village, and return to the

storekeeper. Tell him you'd like some credit. He asks you if you have a job, say

Storekeeper's safe lock. He walks up the stairs to the safe, and opens it. This

is the safe's combination. Make sure you remember it!

here will have the same effect, he'll refuse to give you credit. He will return

to witness and remember the safe's combination.

When he's returned to his desk again, ask him if he can ask the sword master one

extras you've already been told about. At this point say "enough about extras

already". There will be approximately 10 extras before Stan starts to repeat

price again. If it's still over 6k, leave and come back. Then ask about extras

Leave the captain's bedroom, and go down the hatch to the lower deck. (This

cereal, open it to find a prize, "look at" the prize to discover its a monkey

Return to the Captain's bedroom, open the cabinet with the key, pick up the

chest, open it, and pick up the leaflet, "look at" it to discover it is a recipe

and even if it's not part of the recipe it will help clear your inventory for

Once you've added all the correct items to the pot, it will explode, and

When he wakes up, use the Meléé Island treaseure map with the flames

After Herman Toothrot’s welcome, click anywhere on the screen to remove your

head

Pick up the Banana, and note the row boat, you'll be needing that later on. Read

From the beach, go west, the map will scroll. You'll see another beach. Go to

On the far west side of the map you'll see a crater type structure, follow the

peak of the crater around to find the "Fort". Click on it to go there.

Go east, follow the mountain ridge and you'll find the river fork. Go there.

send the big rock flying over to the beach and hitting the banana tree. You'll

know when it hits the banana tree as you'll hear Guybrush saying "Wow, that was

a one in a million shot!"

Note: If you don’t hit the boat with the rock, you will complete the game with

Head back down the paths to the river's dam (picking up new notes on the way) -

where Guybrush says "Gosh, it sure is hot here". Use the Gunpowder with the

"Dam" (right hand side of the river, in the rocky bit). Then when stood at the

Return to the Monkey Island map, and head to the east to the "pond" at the end

Monkey Headed entrance to LeChuck's lair. Remember where this is, we'll be back

Return to the map and go to the "Crack" - just north of the beach where you

you up in a hut. Note: Herman’s banana pickers are here, but we cant do anything

with them yet so don’t bother picking them up.

Pick up the note... jeez, all these bloody notes, haven’t they heard of twitter,

With the monkey, return to the Monkey Head entrance to LeChuck's lair. DO NOT

monkey head, click on the "nose" on the left hand totem and "pull" it. This

The monkeys mouth drops open and you can walk through here to get to LeChuck’s

its the only one, and they'd hate to lose it. Give them the leaflet from your

inventory named "How to get ahead in navigating". They give you the Navigators

head. We need to use this to find out way thru the catacombs to LeChuck’s lair.

Return to the Monkey Head. Enter it. "Use" the navigators head... you can "Talk"

Follow this all the way to LeChuck’s ship. When you arrive the ship, do not go

on

it yet! Instead, talk to the navigators head, and ask him for the necklace he's

got wrapped around him - it makes you invisible to LeChuck's crew. You can ask

him nicely and "pretty please" him into submission, or you can threaten him by

saying you'll kick him into the lava. Choice is yours, either way he eventually

gives you the necklace. When you get it "Use" it.

the left of the deck, enter LeChuck’s cabin, and use the compass in your

there. You'll see a Pirate sleeping with a bottle of grog in his hand. We come

to this in a minute. For now, go right, you'll enter the hold. Walk to where the

chickens are, and you'll find a feather on the floor. Pick it up. Return to the

sleeping pirate, and "use" the feather with the sleeping pirates feet. Do this

two or three times and he'll drop the grog. Pick it up.

Return to the hold with the chickens and pigs. Use the key from LeChuck’s room,

with the locked hatch. Go down, and use the grog with the rat's tray. This

pick up the tools. "Great, more inventory".

Ghost Pirate zapping goodness (part of your five a day I’m sure!). Return to

LeChuck's lair. You'll find Bob there, all alone. LeChuck has left to go back to

the church on Meléé Island to marry Elaine! Nooooooooooooooo! At this point

You get returned to Meléé island docks, and a ghost appears. Zap him with the

way. Enter the church and use any of Guybrush's talk options to stop the

LeChuck is peeved... he's not a happy bunny at having the wedding stop. However,

from the roof saying she had things under control all along and Guybrush didn’t

Elaine's bottle of Ghost Pirate Spritzer, they run off with it, leaving Guybrush

OH NO!!! The bottle's squirter has jammed! LeChuck winds up for one heck of a

big punch right into Guybrush's face and send him sailing into the air and

landing in the Grog machine at Stan's Previously Owned Vessels. Stan tries to

grog on the floor and "Use" it with LeChuck. If you don’t do it quick enough you

will get "punched" around the island until you successful spritz LeChuck with

punch you back to Stan's, but only after visiting nearly every other landmark

site on Meléé Island.

And that’s that. When you've spritzed LeChuck, he explodes into the most

wonderful fireworks display that Meléé island has ever seen, and Elaine and

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- Doh! I missed out the part about setting fire to the Meléé Island

treasure map while in the Sea Monkey's kitchen. Thanks to Nicholas for

- Correction: There's no note at the fort. Thanks to donnieRedboY for 

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