The Sultan's Inventor

## Synopsis

In a royal Arabian palace, the brilliant inventor Zara is accused of murdering the Sultan. Will she be clever enough to escape the dungeon and track down the real killer?

## Characters

* Zara
* Sultan Omar
* Grand Vizier Jamal
* Cyrus
* Sultana Farah
* Princess Amira
* Mustafa
* Hakim
* Solomon

## Plot

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Zara is talking to Omar about how much she will miss Yangara. Suddenly, Jamal comes in telling Zara that Princess Farah wants to see her. When she arrives, Farah tells her that her styling robot broke down, so Zara then dresses up Farah. After that, Zara goes back to her home to assemble to automatons. After assembling them, she pulls the curtains and, suddenly, an arrow comes out of one of the automatons, killing Sultan Omar, The guards then arrest Zara.

In jail, Zara uses a bamboo branch to get her food and then discovers a note to her. Determined to find out who it is, she crafts to makeshift stick of dynamite, ignites it, and then throws it out of the window, prompting the guard to leave. After that, Zara uses a spoon to unscrew a panel and turn some dials to escape. Then, she traps the guard in the cell and rummages through the desk. Eventually, she rummages through the guard’s desk and, after cracking a lock, comments on how she is grateful that Jamal did not use her ‘modern’ designs. She then discovers the underground war tunnels and uses them to escape.

She then appears in the palace garden, where she overhears Jamal and Farah talking. When they leave, Zara then finds three keys and uses them to unlock a secret passageway behind the palace. Once through, she ends up in Omar’s study and discovers that the sender of the letter is Princess Amira. After solving some locks that she made, she opens the locked closet to retrieve the automaton that shot out the arrow.

After that, she goes to her workshop to examine the automaton, bringing along Cyrus. After opening her secret compartment, she finds out that the key to the automaton’s back panel and her blueprints had been stolen, so she uses a mold to create another key. After opening the panel, she finds out that her automaton had been tampered with. Suspecting Mustafa, as he was the only other person to find out about the secret compartment, she heads off to the bazaar to consult a friend of hers.

After heading to the bazaar, she sees two people arguing over a crash. She then replaces the broken wheel and sorts out the produce. Seeing this, the two then thank her and leave, allowing her to pass. After that, she meets Hakim for information about Mustafa, who then asks for her to get back his vase and necklace. After getting them back, Hakim tells her that Mustafa was gambling in a nearby building, and then gives her a ring. After showing the ring to a guard, he lets Zara in. Zara then spots a gambler, who then tells her that she would need to bet a high price and win at mancala to get the information. After giving the smoker tobacco, cleaning a stone tablet and helping someone open a box, she acquires a (probably fake) diamond. She then gives the diamond to the gambler and they play mancala. After Zara wins, the gambler then tells her that Mustafa went to a castle.

After she reels in a boat to get to the castle, Zara is greeted by Solomon. He tells her that he need the fives heritage rings. After unlocking a door and entering it, Zara dodges the Laughing Ones (hyenas) and gets the five rings. After giving it to Solomon, she receives the key to the room Mustafa went to. When she enters, she fixes a portrait timeline of the past rulers and, much to her shock, Solomon is in it, and he had supposedly died centuries ago. After unlocking a door, she then finds Mustafa, dead due to poisoning. She then finds evidence that points to Jamal being the culprit, though she is skeptical as to why Mustafa is holding his pen in his right hand despite being left-handed.

She then heads to the royal place, where she then sends to evidence to Princess Amira. After receiving it, Princess Amira rushes to arrest Jamal, ignoring Zara trying to tell her a few problems she had found, as well as not holding a trial, much to Zara’s confusion. Afterwards, Cyrus comes and accidentally reveals that Princess Amira has been entering a secret room behind some tiles. After some snooping, Cyrus and Zara then find the secret room and investigates it. After a while, they unlock a secret safe, revealing some documents that show that Princess Amira had been the one behind the killing of Omar and Mustafa. Hurriedly, they rush over to the coliseum.

At the coliseum, they unlock a nearby guard tower and after patching up a glider, they used the elevator to ride their way to the top. Where they then glide into the coliseum. When they arrive, they hastily show Sultana Farah the documents. When Farah confronts Amira about it, Amira then commands the guards to release the tiger before fleeing. Panicking, Zara and Cyrus look around for a way to stop the mechanical tiger. Eventually, they manage to activate a trapdoor, causing the tiger to fall in. As it tries to climb out, Zara rushes over to the deactivation panel on its back, and manages to shut off the tiger. Then, Princess Amira comes back while being detained by Farah and the guards. She is then taken away by the guards. After this, Jamal, as the new Sultan, allows Zara to stay. He then orders Zara to make new locks for the prison and, by Zara’s request, makes Cyrus her assistant.

## Trivia

* On the Haiku Games website, this game is classified as a Murder Mystery Game rather than an Adventure Game (which is inconsistent with the Adventure Escape Mystery app).
* To get the camel in the market place to stand up, Zara tries 'Yip yip'. This is most likely a reference to Avatar: The Last Airbender where those are Appa's trigger words to get him to fly.
* The name of one of the guards is Khabsa.
* In the Bargaining Puzzle, the puzzle where you get 7 coins, Zara could have used a trick to get infinite coins (assuming she has the patience and that the stalls have bottomless stocks). She could buy a chili and a spice using 3 gold coins. She could then buy rags with that. She could then buy 3 spices with the rags. After that, she has to buy spices with chili until the number of chili is equal to the number of spices. Then, she could rack up chili by repeating steps 2 to 4. When, she has had enough chili, she could sell all of them to one of the stalls.
* It is implied that Solomon is immortal and likely faked his death or passed the crown to the next generation.