After 4,5 hours of playing "Conquests of Camelot", I've reached Jerusalem!

But boy, what I had to do to get here...

Once it cracks, you can't go back!

First I had to traverse a frozen lake that wasn't as completely frozen over as it looked, so I went for an involuntary polar bear dip once or twice... or fifty times! Even with the use of Queen Elsa's frozen heart to guide me through the tricky spots, sometimes the ice would crack faster than I could jump back...

Let him go, let him gooooo!

So I had the chance to betray Launcelot and leave him to freeze, but I thought, what the heck, I'm a King, this game rewards me for being chivalrous, let's try to get a couple more of those old Sierra points!

Last time I traveled by ship in a Sierra game, things didn't end well...

Finally a ship brought me to Gaza (yikes!) and this old man told me about some ancient goddesses. 

No where's that valley of the crescent moon?

Then I walked through the desert with a mule with no name for longer than I should. A misconception on my part: it had been a while since I acquired my lodestone, so I'd forgotten what it did exactly, and I wrongfully assumed it was something like a dowsing rod which would lead me to water, like a certain amber fish can lead you to the most priceless metal on earth... But no, it was just a compass always pointing north... And all I had to do was walk east.

So, are we flying these things out of here or what?

Finally found some water and the driveway to Jerusalem. And if there's one thing this game has taught me it is to stay away from big cities because everybody will rob you blind there...

I really hope this isn't the city sewer system...

Anyway, I got a nifty puzzle to look forward to now, where I have to give the merchants and inhabitants their hearts' desire, and I expect in a little domino effect I will fetch-quest my way to where I need to go!

The city gates, always a good place to save...