Dulo says that, yes, he too has a piece of the wax cylinder, but has stored it in his
home, a good distance from the dome. Sam will go with Dulo to get the cylinder. Of
course, throughout New Boston as well as on the surface of the Moon, more robotic
adversaries will try to stop Atomic Sam from achieving his goals. Like Xeraphina and
Scrap, Dulo will work with Sam in defeating the adversaries they encounter on the sur-
face, helping to incapacitate the robotic nuisances. Once Sam reaches Dulo’s home he
will be able to get the fragment of the wax cylinder from him. Sam must then fight his
way back to New Boston and return to Earth from there.
Return to the Electric Priestess’ Bubble Home
After Sam has completed each of the three areas, he will have collected all of the frag-
ments of the cylinder he thinks he needs and will return to the Electric Priestess’
bubble home. In a cut-scene, the Electric Priestess says that she is most impressed
with Sam’s work in recovering all the fragments of the cylinder. Unfortunately, when
Sam tries to put it together, he finds that one piece is still missing. The Priestess then
reveals that she has the final piece, with which Sam can fully assemble the complete
cylinder.
Fortunately, the Priestess has a machine with which to play back the cylinder. On
the cylinder Sam’s parents explain the work they had been researching, and how it led
them into conflict with Max Zeffir, the owner of their company, Zeffir Zoom, and the man
who has abducted them. Sam hears his parents explaining that in their work for Zeffir
Zoom they discovered a dangerous flaw in one of Zeffir’s new monorail systems, some-
thing that would mean huge losses for the company in order to successfully redesign.
Unfortunately, they relate, Max Zeffir himself became aware of the problem but refused
to have it fixed, and needed to silence them so the monorail system could go ahead
without delay.
With the cylinder’s playback complete, the Electric Priestess reveals that, in fact,
she is Zeffir’s sister. She was the original head scientist for Zeffir Zeppelins, and lost her
leg many years ago in a zeppelin accident, which she blames on Zeffir’s cost-cutting.
She suspected all along that Zeffir was behind Sam’s parents’ disappearance, but felt
she must have proof before she could reveal her suspicions to Sam. In fact, she
explains, she has been a friend of Sam’s parents for some time, and when they started
to fear that they would be caught by Max Zeffir, they broke up the evidence, in the form
of the wax cylinder, and scattered the pieces, putting one in their apartment, one in
their office in Benthos, and mailing the remaining pieces to Ike, Dulo, and the Electric
Priestess herself. The Priestess now concludes with certainty that it has been Zeffir
sending robot minions to try to stop Sam from discovering the truth about his parents.
The Ikairus
His parents, the Electric Priestess reveals, are most likely being held captive aboard
Zeffir’s atomic-powered flying fortress the Ikairus. A constantly airborne, mammoth
craft — its atomic power allowing it to fly indefinitely — the flying fortress is Zeffir’s
pride and joy, and is also where he resides. Kept aloft by some eighty propeller engines,
the craft looks like a gigantic flying wing, and is large enough for other aircraft to
land on.
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