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Quest for Kieran is the ninth level of the Frost difficulty in Holiday Lemmings 1994 and the third level of the demo.

Strategy[]

The first Lemming must be made a Builder when he's at the edge of the gap to the left of the exit. One Lemming will fall through before the bridge is complete so let him walk until he reaches the gap before the exit, and have him build over it starting from the edge. Meanwhile, the first Lemming to reach the dip at the top of the floating island must be made a Miner to stall the other lemmings. By the time he will have broken through, there should be a safe path to the exit so raise the release rate to 99.

Etymology[]

This level was named for Kieran Millar, hospitalized for heart surgery around the time the game was made. In an e-mail from Dr. Peter McClean Millar to Alex Meyer (webmaster of World of the Lemmings):

Just as a bit of information for you. On the Xmas 94 demo, one of the levels is called Quest for Kieran - that is my son. He had to go into hospital in 1993 for a heart operation and I wrote to Psygnosis asking if the would send some posters to him and a get well card from the Lemmings (it was a life threatening operation with only mediam survival rate) in the hope that it would help him. Well they did him proud. Named a level for him and sent T-shirts, mugs, posters, stickers and a tape of lemmings music.damn fine company. I'm glad to say Kieran's operation was a complete success and he is now a healthly, normal young boy. In hospital he spent all his time listening to the music (which was actually quite good).

Another e-mail to Meyer followed this one:

For your information, Kieran was diagosed with Coarctation of the Aeorta. This is a condition where the aeorta (main artery running from the heart) narrows. In kieran, his aeorta narrowed to 2 milimeters over a 5 milimeter length. He was operated on in Great Ormond Street Childrens Hospital in London where they removed the constriction and joined the aeorta up again. The operation was a complete success and he is now just like any normal young boy.

Information about Pete, Kieran and the rest of the family can be found at http://www.millar.org.


Xmas & Holiday Lemmings Levels
1991 Merry Christmas Mr Lemming Christmas Bonus Time waits for no Lemming This Corrosion DIGGING FOR VICTORY AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!
1992 Jingle Lemming Happy Holidays Mr Lemming! A Lemming Holiday The North Poles
1993 Flurry Climbing to the Top! Floating Lemming Flurry Holiday Mining Lemming Tracks in the Snow! Christmas South of the Equator Lemming Snowfall Lemming Snowjourn Clouds of Lemmings Vacation in Gemland A Block from Home 32 Lemmings Below Zero At Home in a Cave Presents of Mind Yo-yo Lem-lem Marshmallow Land Head for the Hills! The Long Way Around
Blitz Oogilemming! Lemmings Up High Check Your Hints! Santus Lemmingus It Came Upon a Lemnight Clear A Single Lemming... Break on through... Presents of Mind II Lemmings...The Motion Picture The Wrath of Lem The Search for Lem The Voyage Home... The Final Frontier The Undiscovered Country The Needs of the Many... The Next Lemeration
1994 Frost Chains of Command Ski Jump! CindyLand Separate Ways Lemming Reunification The Land of the Bizarre Happy New Year! Division Bell Quest for Kieran Four Play Maybe not such a doddle It's Boxing Day! 2 Minutes before midnight Happy New Year II! Plethora of Presents Up on the Rooftops
Hail Go Thataway! Break On Through And a Happy New Year! Lemmintaschen? Get the Point? Surprise Package? Steel Ice Span Sir Edmund Hilemming Up, up, and away! Lemmy in the cold, cold ground Emmings! (No L) Merry Christmaze Polar Expedition Rendezvous II Steel Block Party Peak of Performance
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