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Key & Compass presents:
Brain of the Night Guest
by Caelyn Sandel and Carolyn VanEseltine

Brain of the Night Guest is a Z-machine work of interactive fiction written with Inform 7 and is © 2011 by Caelyn Sandel and Carolyn VanEseltine. It was an entry in the PAX East 2011 Speed-IF event. (At the time, Caelyn Sandel was writing as Colin Sandel.)

You play as Alex, a student into pharmaceuticals. You passed out during a tour of the Plutonian Commonwealth museum, and now a maintenance bot is telling you the museum's closed and it'll take you to the police in the morning. The bot shuts itself off and you decide you need to find a way out of here.

This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on Release 1 of the work.


Walkthrough

u (win!) Balcony PlutonianCommonwealth Museum,Grand Hall Tomb of theUnknownTool BreakRoom Mainten-ance Room ServiceCorridor d

Maintenance Room

> x me. i. (Carrying nothing.)

> take note. read it. ("DO NOT GIVE JUNK FOOD to the braintree")

> x bags. search bags. x brain. ("Kevin")

> x bot. turn on bot. (It turns itself off again.)

> w.

Break Room

> x fridge. open it.

> x jim's brain. x chicken fingers.

> take all from fridge. close fridge.

> e. e.

Service Corridor

> x door. open door. (It won't open!)

> x panel. (You don't understand it.)

> w. n.

Plutonian Commonwealth Museum, Grand Hall

> x braintree. x planter. x brain tank.

> x transfer chair. x transfer pedestal.

> read display note. (re Kevin)

> x warning sign. x staircase.

> x door. x placard. ("Tomb of the Unknown Tool")

> x padlock. (scratches?)

> u.

Balcony

> x Marlene's brain. take it.

> x typewriter. d.

Plutonian Commonwealth Museum, Grand Hall

> put marlene's on pedestal. sit on chair. (The tree just sighs.)

> put chicken in planter. (The tree's now active.)

> sit on chair.

You now have Marlene's brain in your head. (Alex's brain is now in the brain tank.) You learn the typewriter has a loose key and how to take it.

> look. x alex's brain. u.

Balcony

> x typewriter. thump it. x key. d.

Plutonian Commonwealth Museum, Grand Hall

> unlock padlock with key. e.

Tomb of the Unknown Tool

> x hammer. take it. w.

Plutonian Commonwealth Museum, Grand Hall

> put jim's brain on pedestal. sit on chair.

With Jim's brain implanted, you learn how to unlock to fire door's control panel.

> s. e.

Service Corridor

> hit panel. (using the hammer; the door's unlocked now.)

If you go east now, you'll win, but as Jim's brain in Alex's body.

> w. n.

Plutonian Commonwealth Museum, Grand Hall

> put kevin's on pedestal. sit on chair.

With Kevin's brain implanted, you're prompted to examine things for clues! But since you've already solved everything, Kevin's not too useful now.

> x padlock. u.

Balcony

> x antique typewriter. d.

Plutonian Commonwealth Museum, Grand Hall

> take alex's. put it on pedestal. sit on chair.

You're fully Alex again.

> s. e. e.

*** You have won ***


Extras

Characters


Endings


Inventory

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