Key & Compass presents:
The Isle of Statues
by Elmar Vogt

• Map
• Walkthrough
• Extras
  • Characters, Credits, Endings, Inventory, Score
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Map

Walkthrough

The "Curiosity"

> x me. i. (You have a pocket watch.)

> ask captain about orders.

Take the boatswain to the island, get water, and be back before 6.

> take barrel. enter boat.

> e. e.

The beach of the island

> take all from boat. out. x crabs.

> e.

You're in the middle of a small palm grove

You don't need the pistol. It doesn't work.

> x pistol. n. e.

You're now in a small olive orchard

> x skeleton. x bottle.

> open bottle. take parchment. read it. ("Flee!")

> bury skeleton. (+1)

> s.

You're on top of a hill, overlooking the little island

> x statues. (They've been crucified to crosses.)

> ask boatswain about statues.

> e.

On sloping ground

> fill barrel from spring. (+1)

> e.

A temple

> x statues. (There's four, all beheaded.)

> take scabbard. open it. read paper.

The paper claims the statues move and are after the author.

> ask boatswain about statues.

> w. s.

On the southern beach

> x brook. w. w. n. w.

The beach of the island

> enter boat. w. w.

The "Curiosity"

> out.

> drop barrel. (+1)

*** You have accomplished your mission ***

Extras

Characters

• The captain is on the deck of the Curiosity. Ask him about your mission.
• The boatswain is also on the deck of the Curiosity. He will accompany you on your mission.
• Some crabs can be found on two of the island's beaches.
• A skeleton of a man lies unburied in the olive orchard. He wrote a couple notes before he died.

Mentioned:

• Birds can be heard in the forest.

Honorable mention:

• Whatever villagers used to live on this island abandoned it long ago.
• Several statues are on the top of the hill in the middle of the island. The notes you find seem to suggest that the statues are alive in some way, but you yourself see no evidence of that.

Credits

Excerpted from the response to ABOUT:

"The Isle of Statues" -- 2012 by Elmar Vogt
Contact: email redacted -- http://ontos1.wordpress.com
Welcome to the world of interactive fiction!

This is the first interactive fiction game I've written, and as such it is more of a "test" than a true game in its own right -- I mostly wanted to see if I would get a grip on Inform 6, the programming language. Nonetheless a number of people have invested their time and given me valuable feedback on bugs and playability improvements: As such, I would like to thank Thomas Schäfer, "katzy", "StJohnLimbo", Peter Pears, "Dannii", and everybody else.

Enjoy playing interactive fiction!

Endings

• Suddenly, you realize that you've stayed on the isle of statues for too long: The "Curiosity" has heaved anchor and is sailing away with no hope of return.
  You are stranded on the island. And whatever is on this island with its statues, its temples and atmosphere of decay... will remain with you.
• if you stay too long on the island.
• You have accomplished your mission: The "Curiosity" has its supply of fresh water, and you can continue on your cruise.
  The captain hoists the anchor, the sails are unfurled, and the wind pushes the ship onwards.
  In the afternoon sun, the nameless island with its spectres of the past, with its unsolved riddles and the remains of the hapless skeleton falls back behind you.
  Quite soon, it vanishes behind the horizon.
• if you drop a barrel full of spring water on the deck of the ship.

Inventory

• a pocket watch. You're wearing it.
• Leave it on; it lets you know what time it is and that's important because if you're not back on the ship by 6 o'clock, the ship will leave without you.
• a water barrel. It's on the deck of the Curiosity.
• Fill it with water either from the spring at the sloping ground or from the brook at the southern beach. Return to the ship and drop the filled barrel to win the game.
• a pickaxe and a shovel. They're in the rowing boat.
• You'll use them automatically when you bury the skeleton in the olive orchard. And yes, you need both tools to do the job.
• a pistol. It's in the palm grove.
• Examine it, but don't bother taking it. It's not usable.
• a bottle. Find it by examining the skeleton in the olive orchard.
• Open it; it contains a parchment.
• a parchment. It's in the bottle.
• Read it. It advises you to flee.
• a leather scabbard. It's in the temple.
• Open it; it contains a sheet of paper.
• a sheet of paper. It's in the leather scabbard.
• Read it to learn more about the skeleton.

Score

The response to SCORE is:

You have so far scored your-score out of a possible 3, in some turns.

Points are awarded as follows:

• 1 point for burying the skeleton.
• 1 point for filling the barrel with spring water.
• 1 point for dropping the full barrel on the ship.

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