King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow (1992 Video Game)

Russi Taylor: Beauty, Lady Celeste, Ghost Child, Oyster

Quotes 

• Narrator : [If the player clicks the red scarf on the Minotaur]  Alexander, his back inches from the fiery pit, tempts the Minotaur with the Red Queen's scarf.

  Prince Alexander : Look here, you bully! Nice, bright red!

  Minotaur : [growling, he roars, and preparing to charge]  Red! Now you die!

  Narrator : [the Minotaur rushes Alexander and falls into the fire pit]  The Minotaur drops from sight amidst the consuming flames. Slowly his scream fades as well.

  Prince Alexander : Have you been harmed, Lady Celeste? Are you all right?

  Lady Celeste : No I am not all right! I assume you do not intend to leave me tied up on this vile monstrosity!

  Prince Alexander : Err, of course not. Sorry. Let's see. If you'll give me a moment, I'll have these untied in no time.

  Lady Celeste : I can't wait that long. Look, I wear a small dagger just inside my belt. It should be enough to cut the rope.

  Prince Alexander : Oh. All right, I... I've got it, Lady Celeste. Here we go.

  [Alexander cuts the ropes until Lady Celeste stands up from the altar] 

  Lady Celeste : Thank you. You may keep the dagger as a gift for saving my life.

  Prince Alexander : That's very generous...

  Lady Celeste : Forget it! Do you mind if we just get out of here now?

  [Alexander and Lady Celeste both exit the Minotaurs lair though the door] 

• Beauty's Stepmother : [the stepmother opens the front door, yelling and screaming at Beauty looking at roses]  You lazy thing! Get back to work and stay away from those roses! I've told you a million times, those flowers are too sweet for the likes of you! You still got to do the breakfast dishes, make lunch and clean the stables yet this morning! And get your veil back on! No one wants to look at your face!

  Beauty : Yes stepmother.

  [Beauty walks into the house and the door closes] 

• Beast : [as Alexander and Beauty enters the Beasts garden, the Beast opens the hedge garden gate and walks up to them]  I see you wear my ring. You willingly agree to spend your life here with me? Do you know what that means?

  Beauty : Yes my lord I do. I have been touched by your story.

  Beast : Pretty alone need not sentence you to endure this face.

  Beauty : Oh. But it is a gentle face and kind.

  Beast : You look at me so sweetly and are not repulsed, oh, by the light of your eyes, my spirit soars!

  [Then the beast transforms into a human] 

  Beast : The enchantment! It is broken!

  Beauty : I am pleased to have served you my lord. Do you still wish me to stay?

  Beast : What? Speak not such nonsense Beauty. Do you think that I learned nothing of true love during my time here, you are my queen.

  [Then Beauty's clothes change to royal clothes] 

  Beauty : Oh! My clothes! This gown!

  Beast : How well it suits your noble heart.

  Beauty : Alexander, how can I ever repay you? I have nothing to offer except my gratitude. But please, take these old clothes, perhaps you'll find someone in need during your travels.

  Prince Alexander : You have already repaid me by your example of courage Beauty, and by your friendship I hope.

  [Beauty gives Alexander her old dress] 

  Beast : You will always have our friendship and loyalty Prince Alexander, but from a fellow adventurer, take some advice, if you find your true love, protect her with your life. There are all beasts without the redeeming humanity of love, and to aid you, accept my mirror, now that my life is no longer hung in false shadows, I have no need for it. Give it to someone with nothing to fear from the truth that reveals.

  [the gentleman gives Alexander the magic mirror] 

  Prince Alexander : Thank you, I wish you both well.

  Beast : Come Beauty, let me take you home.

  [Then the gentleman and Beauty goes into the Hedge garden gates] 

• Prince Alexander : [If the player clicks the rose icon on Beauty]  Pardon me maid. I hope you don't think me forward, but I see that you like roses. I thought you might, perhaps, like a fresh white rose?

  Narrator : Alexander can see the conflict in the girls pretty face, as she fights between her distrust of him and her desire for the white rose, the rose wins.

  [Alexander gives Beauty the white rose and she smells it] 

  Beauty : Oh I shouldn't sir, but it is so lovely, I've never seen a rose of white, it looks so pale and delicate, wherever did you find one of such a color?

  Prince Alexander : There are many hedges of them on the Isle of the Beast. And they grow together like magic.

  Beauty : Oh truly? What an adventure that must be to see them, but I should not speak so, especially to a stranger. Thank you for the rose though, kind sir.

• Narrator : [If the player clicks the beast ring icon on Beauty]  Alexander has a thought about the serving girl, he decides to bring up the subject of Beast with her.

  Prince Alexander : Let me tell you about the place where the white roses grow, the Isle of the Beast is an enchanted place, there's a path running through a deep forest. The path crosses three magic blockades, set to keep all visitors away. At the center lives a tremendous Beast.

  Beauty : Really? Magic blockades? How exciting! What kind of a Beast? Is it very terrifying and ferocious?

  Prince Alexander : It is a Beast that walks on two legs and dresses like a prince. It speaks with a voice of a man.

  Beauty : A Beast that talks and wears clothes? How is that possible? Is the Beast magic too?

  Prince Alexander : Not magical, enchanted. Beast was once a prince, but a witch trapped him in the form of a Beast and set him on the island. There he lives in a castle, in the midst of a maze.

  Beauty : How terrible. Imagine how lonely he must be.

  Prince Alexander : It is a very lonely prospect isn't it? Oh, I have met him you see. He is indeed ferocious, but, who would not be.

  Beauty : He really exists? Oh how it breaks my heart, if I could, I would tend to such a Beast. Such a Beast might find comfort in a kind face. Do you not think it so?

  Prince Alexander : Oh, I think it so. I very much think it so. You would not be afraid of him?

  Beauty : Afraid? Maybe at first, but how silly of me to speak so. The roses in this little yard are the only magic that I will ever see.

  Prince Alexander : I could take you there, in fact, I would owe you my life if you would go. If you truly wish to go.

  Beauty : You are serious? I could leave here? Oh, I have always dreamt of leaving, but to actually go, this is the only home I have ever known.

  Prince Alexander : Home is a hard place to leave. Even if you're unhappy there.

  Beauty : But I will go, if I can help him, I must go.

  [Beauty the serving girl walks over to the gate, she opens it and exits her front yard. She walks over to Alexander] 

  Prince Alexander : Is there nothing you wish to take with you?

  Beauty : There is, nothing.

  Prince Alexander : Then take this ring, it is his. He will be pleased if you would wear it.

  Beauty : Why, it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen! Thank you kindly sir.

  Beauty's Stepmother : Beauty! Where do you think you're going?

  Beauty : To a place where roses grow and to someone who truly needs me.

• Beauty's Stepmother : [Beauty's Stepmother opens the front door and yells at Beauty]  Are you out here again? Have you finished the breakfast chores I gave you?

  Beauty : Yes Stepmother! The house and stables are clean!

  Beauty's Stepmother : Then start polishing the silverware! Do I have to tell you everything?

  Beauty : Yes Stepmother. Right away.

  [Beauty walks in the house and the Stepmother shuts the door] 

• Beauty's Stepmother : [Beauty's Stepmother opens the front door and yells at Beauty]  Go help my daughter! She needs something to fix her hair!

  Beauty : Yes Stepmother.

  [Beauty walks in the house and the Stepmother shuts the door] 

• Lady Celeste : [as Alexander walks into Minotaur's lair as the Minotaur is tying up Lady Celeste on the table]  No! I beg of you, please don't hurt me!

  Minotaur : [Growls]  Your struggles are useless!

  Narrator : It's the minotaur! And he's struggling with a Winged Ones girl. She must be Lady Celeste!

• Prince Alexander : Excuse me! I demand the release of that maiden this instant, you fiend!

  Narrator : Lady Celeste looks wildly around the room for the source of the strange voice and spots Alexander.

  Lady Celeste : You there! Human! Help me! HELP!

  [the Minotaur stops what he's doing and faces Alexander] 

  Minotaur : Growl! Who Dares enter my lair?

  Prince Alexander : I ask you to release your captive or suffer the consequences!

  Minotaur : ROAR! Never! You die, human!

  Narrator : As the minotaur advances in attack, Alexander slowly back away... Until he can back away no more!

  Minotaur : Now where to little man? Growl!

• Narrator : The Winged Ones guards, bored with the pointless waiting, are startled by the sound of rock moving against rock.

  [the rock moves open and out comes Lady Celeste and Alexander] 

  Winged One : Lady Celeste, bide thee well?

  Lady Celeste : I'm quite well, thanks to the bravery of a mere human! So much for your superior intellects!

  Winged One : Yes, mi lady.

  Lady Celeste : Now, bring him along! I'm going home!

  [Lady Celeste flies home, the crow with the golden eyes flies away crowing, the 2 winged guards fly him back to the palace] 

• Narrator : Alexander opens the dungeon door and slips inside.

  [Alexander sees the ghost child boy named Ali on the bunker] 

  Ghost Child : Mother? Mother, where are you?

• Prince Alexander : What's the matter, little boy?

  Ghost Child : I'm lost! I can't find my mother! I don't know why she would just leave me here! I've been alone ever so long! Mother? Mother, where are you?

• Prince Alexander : [If the player clicks the ghost handkerchief icon on the ghost boy]  You must the son of the spirit I met in the Realm of the Dead. She gave me this handkerchief, and asked me to tell you that she's waiting for you there.

  Ghost Child : [the ghost boy gets up and floats in midair]  It's Mama's! It even smells like her! I can feel her now! I know where to go!

  Prince Alexander : Wait! Before you go, is there anything you can tell me about the castle?

  Ghost Child : I like to play in secret places. In the basement, behind the man of steel, is a door. Nobody except me knows it's there anymore. Farewell!

  [the Ghost boy takes the handkerchief and flies out of the dungeon room to the Realm of the Dead] 

• Lady Celeste : [Fake Lady Celeste with gold eyes walks in the room]  Ah! You are human only and not the monster himself. I heard you coming and thought you were the beast. Did my father sent you here to save me?

  Prince Alexander : Why... Yes he did but... How did you...

  Lady Celeste : Hush! There is no time. I've think I've discovered the Minotaurs secret exit from the catacombs, follow me and we'll both be saved.

  [Then the fake Lady Celeste walks out of the room]