Autumn, dark afternoon, time for Wishbringer!
#interactivefiction #infocom #wishbringer #retrogaming

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    3 months ago

    Easy! We let ourselves get caught by the boot patrol. In the cell there is a blanket on the bunk bed. Off we go into the underground and throw the blanket over the beast. This gives us access to a bottle of grue milk and an earthworm (yuck!).

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        3 months ago

        Using the milk of grue we can now wish for darkness. This is useful to get into the cinema. However I wonder what the wishless solution would be to this puzzle…? Wishes don’t increase the score, even though getting the ingredients is quite cumbersome (getting the ingredients gets you points, so that’s good).
        #infocom #interactivefiction

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          In the cinema we find some 3D glasses which lets us watch the movie. Which is kind of a weird thing… is it a movie at all…?
          The glasses are needed for a different wish. So I guess they are not needed at all, except if they can be used in a different way?

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            3 months ago

            Right. Where were we? Oh yeah, we found a token in the fountain. But there is a piranha in the water. Well, we also found a worm, so… fish like worms right? And indeed we get the token for the video arcade.
            #retrogaming #interactivefiction #wishbringer #infocom

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              3 months ago

              We take the token to the arcade. One machine is free and so we insert the token. The game is called TRANSMAT and it has a joystick and a coordinate grid. A grid just like the game map!
              Well I think this is our way out of here, we can finally circumvent the hellhound and get to the evil tower! So we move the cursor to the coordinate of the tower and push the button!

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                3 months ago

                The transmat worked! We are now on the hilltop where we started the game. But instead of the post office there is now the evil tower. But how do we get in? The drawbridge is closed!

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                  3 months ago

                  I am not going to spoil too much, but remember what the platypus king told us? If we want to get into the tower we need to use a word of power! So we did. And went in…
                  Inside we find—again—the platypus princess. This seems to be a trap…

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                    3 months ago

                    Why yes, of course it’s a trap. And Mr Crisp, our boss, is the henchman. Obviously. We end up in a torture chamber. Let’s see how we get out of here…
                    #interactivefiction #infocom #retrogaming #wishbringer