King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride
Plot Summary

After exiting the magical vortex, Valanice ends up stranded alone in the middle of a desert landscape and her quest is obvious: To find and rescue her beloved daughter. Meanwhile, Rosella finds herself in an underground troll kingdom in the bowels of a volcano. She soon discovers that she has been transformed into a troll herself and is about to be wed to the troll king Otar Fenris III. Not even wanting to marry a human at the moment, Rosella naturally feels very unhappy about this, although the trolls themselves generally seems to be nice people. But as she soon discovers, there is more at stake. An evil fairy named Malicia is hanging around in the troll kingdom working on some diabolical plan, and all things are not what they appear to be. Rosella learns that the troll king isn't the real Otar, but an impostor. She must get out of the troll kingdom and find the real king, who apparently is somewhere in the ghostly land of Ooga Booga directly above the troll kingdom. Rosella has to find a way up there.

To get out of the desert, Valanice has to solve a number of ancient puzzles left over by some forgotten civilization. She does so and exits through a tunnel to the beautiful forest landscape. She makes her way to the strange town of Falderal, inhabited by talking animals. She learns of a magic statuette that will enable her to see where Rosella is. But to obtain it she has to get into Arch Duke Fifi Le Yipyap's birthday masquerade ball, as the statuette is located somewhere inside the Town Hall. When she finally finds it, she sees a vision of Rosella exiting the troll underground. But as she is about to leave, she accidently makes a large cheese fall from the sky. Believing this to be the moon, the people of Falderal seizes her as a criminal.

Meanwhile, Rosella explores the land of Ooga Booga. Most of its inhabitants are not very nice, such as the hideous Boogeyman and the mischeivous ghoul kids. But a few are nice and polite, like the gravedigger and the friendly Dr. Mort Cadaver. They help Rosella find the real troll king, and together they sneak into Malicia's nearby home to get a device needed to stop Malicia's plan, which they now know of. Malicia is trying to make the volcano controlled by the trolls erupt and destroy the land of Ehteria, which is the magical land Rosella saw in the lake. To stop it, they make their way to Falderal and enters a secret passage, also inside the Town Hall, that leads to a mechanical control room for the volcano. But in the control room they find the false troll king, and the two trolls tangle up in battle. Rosella now has to turn the false troll king back to his original form with a magic wand she got from the real troll king. But who is who?

Valanice manages to shoot the cheese she "stole" high up into the air and are therefore released from her imprisonment in Falderal. Now she makes her way to Ooga Booga, but Rosella has already left. Valanice helps some of the ghosts in Ooga Booga, and in return she gets a way to travel to Etheria among the clouds. Her quest to find Rosella extends to a quest to help Rosella save Etheria, and to do so Valanice has to get help from divine characters like the three Fates, the Dream Weaver and Mother Nature, but to get it she has to help them in return. Finally she meets Oberon and Titania, king and queen of the fairies.

Managing to tell the two troll kings apart by the color of their eyes, Rosella successfully transforms the false troll king back to his original form. And to her great surprise it turns out to be Edgar, who she saved from the clutches of the evil fairy Lolotte only two years ago, when she went to the land of Tamir in a quest to save her father's life. Edgar had been kidnapped by Malicia and magically transformed into her servant to realize her evil plan. Also, it turns out that Edgar was not the son of Lolotte as Rosella believed, but the son of Oberon and Titania, making Edgar a prince. But there is no time for further explanations between the three, because right then Malicia enters and knocks out Otar, magically transforms Edgar away and transports Rosella to a cliff edge inside the volcano right above the rising lava. Rosella digs her way through the walls though, and gets back outside of the control room. Meanwhile, Edgar finds Valanice and brings her with him. Malicia is temporarily gone, and Rosella manages to revive Otar so that he can stop the volcano from erupting. Valanice and Edgar return and all of them are finally united. But of course Malicia returns and spoils the fun. She kills Edgar and aims for Rosella next. But Rosella is quick and uses Malicia's own magic against her, transforming her into a harmless baby. The tragedy of Edgar's death can also be averted because Rosella happens to carry an extra life in her inventory, given to her by a black cat she saved the life of in Ooga Booga. Oberon and Titania enters and are reunited with their long lost son, and all are happy. Rosella travels with Edgar to his beautiful home among the clouds and he asks her if he will have the honor of courting her. This time, Rosella is more than happy to accept.


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