Synopsis
The game begins in the Sierra Mountains, where an asteroid has crashed. The ClueFinders approach the asteroid, discovering it is significantly cool despite its recent crash. Joni wants to touch it to know if it is "like volcanic rock". Despite Santiago's warning, Joni touches it, and the ClueFinders get beamed across space, arriving on the planet Millenia. While Joni, Owen and Laptrap arrive safely at a strange castle, Leslie and Santiago land on top of Mount Voldrak.
Joni and Owen then meet Malveera, the princess of Millenia who brought them to help save her planet (with Owen developing a crush on the princess Malveera). She explains that Santiago and Leslie are prisoners of the evil sorceress, Malicia and confides in Joni and Owen that the only way to stop her is to locate the two halves of the Amulet of Life, which were buried by the two civilizations that inhabit the planet: the Doldreks and the Sorrens. However, Malicia had the Doldreks encased in ice and the Sorrens petrified in rock because they refused to reveal the location of the hidden Amulet halves. Malveera explains to the two Cluefinders that the imprisoned Millenia denizens kept clues that gave the location of the Amulet of Life and freeing them would help them acquire the clues. The princess gives Joni and Owen her blessing, confessing that she is forbidden to leave her lands, leaving the two Cluefinders to brave Millenia's dangers.
Joni, Owen and Laptrap begin their adventures by going to the Crystal Caverns where they collect Thermagems to operate machines and free the Doldreks encased in ice. During this process, they discover a mural of a demented sorceress bearing a certain resemblance to Malveera, causing Joni to become suspicious of the princess. Once all the clue-holding Doldreks are freed, they use those clues to solve the puzzle sequence on the Crystal Gateway, which opens up to reveal the first of the missing Amulet halves.
After escaping a pair of gargoyles, Malveera appears and explains that the team must go to the Mystic Mountains and collect LavaRocks that will activate the devices to free the Sorrens, who have been frozen in stone. After she departs, Joni questions the princess presence, remembering what she had said earlier about not being allowed to leave her lands. Alas, Owen, still enamored by the princess, ignores Joni's suspicions and resumes their adventures.
While they travel through the Mystic Mountains, Joni and Owen discover a plaque stating that the Amulet of Life is evil and can only be destroyed in the fires of Mount Valdrok. This confuses the ClueFinders. Why would the Amulet of Life be evil if it's supposed to save the planet? Once the clues from the freed Sorrens are recovered, Owen and Joni use the clues to solve a puzzle that reveals the story of the planet Melina's invasion from Malicia. Once the puzzle is finished, they recover the second half of the amulet and join both halves together. The princess appears again, this time accompanied by the two gargoyles that attacked the Cluefinders earlier, revealing herself to be the wicked Malicia. She grabs the Amulet around Joni's neck and takes off with her goons. Owen, confused by the situation, comes to terms with the truth (with Joni's assistance) that princess Malveera was just Malicia in disguise. Joni reveals to Owen that Malicia did not take the Amulet of Life and instead took a necklace she had bought at a flea market. Joni and Owen set off for Mount Voldrak to stop Malicia's evil plans to use the Amulet's power to make herself immortal (as well as moving on to Earth as her next victim) and to free Leslie and Santiago as well.
Joni, Owen, and Laptrap face a series of puzzles ascending the volcano all while Malicia discovers the switch but decides to wait for Joni and Owen to arrive with the real Amulet, using Leslie and Santiago as bait. They finally show up and attempt to destroy the Amulet by throwing it into lava, but Malicia's gargoyle goons recover the amulet and turn it over to Malicia. Malicia attempt to utilize the Amulet's power to eliminate the reunited Cluefinders before moving onto the destruction of Millenia and Earth, but Owen's quick thinking and Laptrap's reflective underside manage to repel the amulet's ray, bouncing back at Malicia, trapping her inside the Amulet forever.
Once Malicia is imprisoned inside the Amulet, the two gargoyles transform into a Sorren and a Doldrek, confessing that they were ensnared by Malicia's power and forced to serve her. They explain to the Cluefinders that the amulet's power can return them to Earth but on the condition they must hide the Amulet so nobody will misuse its destructive power. Once the ClueFinders return to their home planet, they have Socrates, the intelligent dog, bury the Amulet along with the trapped Malicia.
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