> > You cannot make a mistake in this game. You won't have to start over. There is another person who is hungry. He is in the forest. You must make your way to him. He is at the SW end of the forest. He will give you something but you must ask him for it a couple of times. You have a scroll find out what it is used for. (Click on it in your inventory and it will give you it's purpose.) There is someone up near the sandy beach that you can give the scroll to. He will reward you. Have you killed the gobblin? Have you killed the vampire? You still need to get something before you can enter the castles and volcano. You need to go fishing again. Check out the sandy beach from the boat. There is something important you need to find there. Have you read the notes in the W part of the forest? Work on these things and everything will come into place.>
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> Gees, thank you for your helpful advice. Before I read it, I went back into the game and started going all over again and found someone in the woods who needed the fish and of course got something in return. I had already used the scroll (for some reason, it stayed in my inventory) but thank you anyway. I have not gone fishing again though, I hope I can remember how I got to that point (ha, ha). I had already killed the vampire and goblin and had found the messages (don't know yet what they are for, but I am on my way to travel around again, so hopefully I'll find out).
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> Basically, I just wanted to thank you for responding as it was kind of you. I have made it a lot farther, but your message told me there is still more for me to do. :-)

I'm adding to this since I went back into the game and am still having problems.

My inventory now consists of:
Sack / Silver Key
Hammer / Club
Sunstone /Carrot (I went and got another one)
Gold Key / Nails
Ticket / Oil
Rope / Sword
Bow / Winter Coat
Wire / Hook
Shovel / Arrow
Pass Ring / Shield
Branch / Scroll
Fishing Pole / Float Ring

I've been in both castles. Drawbridge is open. Released three prisoners (well, two actually - killed one). Was told where princess was, but cannot figure out how to get to her. I still don't know what the messages on the trees were for, nor can I get back to the boat. Can get to the bridge with the frozen troll, the store (do I need the sign?) Can get to the garden and the tower and the other castle, but cannot get back to the area where the boat is. I read in the other hints that if I'm where the princess is then I have everything I need to finish, but since I know about where she is but cannot figure out how to get to exactly where she is, I figure I must be lacking something still. So I left and went to try to find the boat but couldn't. Tried to fish near the store, but it keeps telling me that the fish are not biting today. Should I keep trying?