Key & Compass presents:
Bigger Than You Think
by Andrew Plotkin

Bigger Than You Think was written in Inform 7 for Yuletide 2012, and is © 2012 by Andrew Plotkin.

This map is by David Welbourn and is based on Release 4 of the game. Note that locations are not explicitly named by the story, so I've had to invent them.

(Also, and this is not a complaint, but I disagree with the game's title. I found the game to be pretty much as big as I thought it would be.)


Map

Follow
woman?
follow→ Inside Temple ⏎
(Atalantë)
approach; ↑sign
Runes ⏎
(Uabar)
Scholarly
Career ⏎
Queen's
Square
down→ Fireworks Stall ⏎
(flare, smoke)
↑Runes ↑square↑Atalantë
Towersshoes;
←towers
Well
(key)
←UabarRoot
Chamber
Pool ⏎
(coin)
water→ Frozen! ⏎
↑climbing↑side
Up the
Shaft
passage→ Tall
Chamber
ahead→ Crystals
& Trees
(umbrella)
↑upwardsrope; ↓pit↓forest
Living
Space ⏎
(shoes)
start→Chimney
Lip
Outside
Metal Hatch
Forestmove→ Surrounded
key; ↑open↓downwardscrowbar; ↓descendsmoke; ↓run
Marble Door←canyon Down the
Chimney
(crowbar)
Crystal Runes ⏎
(egg)
Glade ⏎
(crystal)
↓left↓right↓climbing
Bottom of
Sinkhole
(rope)
Eaten! ⏎←turn
←flee
Hiss! Plunging
down
egg; ↓climb flare; ↓run↓umbrella
Gold Coins ⏎
(coin)
Saucer
Hull
Tablets ⏎
(sign)
touch; ↓word
Inside
Saucer
↓crystal
The story
is over

NOTE: Blue areas represent Atalantë; pink areas represent Uabar. These regions are set in the ancient past, and the PCs in Atalantë and Uabar are not the same person as the main PC (Marco Polo) who's exploring the underground caverns.


Walkthrough

Opening notes:

Walkthrough proper:

  1. Get the key from ancient Uabar.

    > upwards. climbing. Uabar. key. square. start.

  2. Get the crowbar, unlock the marble door and get the snakeskin shoes.

    > downwards. crowbar. canyon. carvings. open. key. shoes. start.

  3. Learn Uabar runes.

    > upwards. climbing. Uabar. towers. shoes. Runes. start.

  4. Buy flare and smoke from ancient Atalantë

    > upwards. climbing. Atalantë. down. flare. smoke. start.

  5. Get umbrella and black crystal.

    > upwards. passage. ahead. umbrella. forest. smoke. run. crystal. start.

  6. Learn a sign you can make with your hands.

    > downwards. climbing. umbrella. tablets. start.

  7. Learn Atalantë runes.

    > upwards. climbing. Atalantë. approach. sign. follow. start.

  8. Get some rope.

    > downwards. canyon. left. rope. climb. start.

  9. Translate crystal runes and find an egg.

    > upwards. passage. rope. crowbar. history. descend. Uabar. Atalantë. egg. start.

  10. Get a coin.

    > downwards. canyon. left. egg. climb. coin. start.

  11. Learn a word from a fish?

    > upwards. passage. side. inscriptions. coin. start.

  12. Run past a grue, enter a buried flying saucer, and end the story!

    >downwards. canyon. right. flare. run. touch. word. crystal.

    *** The story is over ***