Monkey Island  - The Saga Explained

   Part II - LeChuck's Revenge
(music from the game now playing)

 

Sometime later Guybrush arrives on Scabb Island to find the legendary pirate treasure, Big Whoop.  In the town of Woodtick he is robbed by Largo LaGrande, LeChuck's former right-hand man who controls the island with an iron fist.  Guybrush also meets Wally, a mild-mannered cartographer and learns the story of Big Whoop.  Four shipwreck survivors, led by Elaine's grandfather, washed up on an island called Dinky and found the mysterious treasure.  Never wanting anyone else to find it, Captain Marley and his crew - Rum Rogers, Sr., the first mate; Rapp Scallion, the cook, and Lindy, the cabin boy, took the map they made of the island and split it up among the four of them and went their separate ways.

Largo has imposed a sailing embargo on the island so Guybrush turns for help to the Voodoo Lady, who has relocated to Scabb Island.  Together they make a voodoo doll which runs Largo off the island.   Unfortunately, in gloating triumph, Guybrush reveals to Largo that he defeated LeChuck.  As proof Guybrush shows him LeChuck's still alive (and wriggling) beard.  Largo steals the beard, promising to resurrect the ghost pirate as a zombie.  Knowing that a reanimated LeChuck will be out to seek revenge, Guybrush again asks the Voodoo Lady for advice.  She tells him that his only hope for defeating LeChuck lay in discovering Big Whoop, which contains the secret to another world.  Find that world she tells him, and he will be able to escape LeChuck forever.  With Largo gone Guybrush charters Captain Dread's ship to find the missing Big Whoop map pieces.

Nearby Phatt Island is Guybrush's first stop.  He is jailed by the island's corrupt governor who hopes to collect the sizeable bounty LeChuck has put on his head.   After escaping Guybrush heads for the Phatt Island casino where he wins a ticket to Elaine Marley's Madi Gras Party.  She is now the governor of nearby Booty Island which becomes Guybrush's next stop.  

The invitation entitles him to a free costume, unfortunately it's a pink tutu.  At her mansion Guybrush spies Elaine's  grandfather's map piece.  Elaine, heartbroken that her former love seems more interested in treasure than in her, throws the map piece out the window.  The wind blows it off a cliff and only with the help of Elaine's dog, Little Guybrush, is "big" Guybrush able to get the first map piece. 

Guybrush discovers the second piece of the map being sold for an astronomical price at a Booty Island store. The owner offers to trade it for the figurehead from a sunken ship, the Mad Monkey.  Winning a spitting contest gets Guybrush enough money to book voyage on Kate Capsize's glass-bottomed tour boat.  After retrieving the figurehead, Guybrush gets the second map piece.  Booty Island is also home to Stan, now peddling used coffins.  In Stan's showroom Guybrush notices a crypt key hanging on the wall.  Remembering that Rapp Scallion was buried with his map piece on Scabb Island, Guybrush tricks Stan into demonstrating a coffin, nails him in it and takes the key.

Back at the Scabb Island cemetery Guybrush uses Stan's crypt key and a pirate quotation book to open Rapp Scallion's coffin, only to find the pirate's cremated ashes.  An "ashes to life" potion from the Voodoo Lady restores Rapp long enough for Guybrush to get his piece of the map.

Now with three pieces of the map in hand, Guybrush travels back to Phatt Island and tracks down Rum Rogers, Jr.  Rum won't discuss his father's map piece unless beaten in a drinking contest.  Guybrush switches his strong grog with Kate Capsize's "near grog".  Guybrush defeats Rum and finds the secret location of his father's piece of the map.

To put together the four map pieces correctly, Guybrush consults Wally.  The cartographer agrees to restore the map in return for a love bomb from the Voodoo Lady.  But while Guybrush goes to retrieves it LeChuck kidnaps Wally (and the map).  Guybrush climbs inside a crate of voodoo supplies to be delivered to LeChuck and soon arrives at the maze-like fortress that is the zombie pirate's headquarters.  After finding Wally locked in the dungeon Guybrush finds the key in LeChuck's throne room.  LeChuck discovers them and plans a fiendish torture for Guybrush and Wally but they escape and stumble into a dynamite-filled room which of course, they accidentally ignite.

Somehow Guybrush survives the explosion and lands on Dinky Island.  There he finds Herman Toothrot and the tunnel leading to Big Whoop.  LeChuck is waiting for him and tortures him with a voodoo doll.  Guybrush puts together a voodoo doll he thinks destroyed LeChuck but actually LeChuck cast a spell on Guybrush, returning him to childhood.  Guybrush believes he is on an amusement park trip with his parents and his brother "Chuckie" but Guybrush actually was trapped in LeChuck's Carnival of Doom.  Somehow he escapes...

Part 3 - The Curse of Monkey Island

            

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