Key & Compass presents:
Zozzled
by Steph Cherrywell

• Map of the Grand Poseidon Hotel, Seattle
• Walkthrough
• Extras
  • Characters, Credits, Inventory
• Thank You to my Patreon supporters
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Map of the Grand Poseidon Hotel, Seattle

• Travel between floors can only be done by elevator, indicated on this map with blue pathways. To use the elevator, push the pearl button then tell Kipper, the elevator operator, via her conversation menu, which floor you wish to travel to.

Walkthrough

You'll be playing as Hazel Greene. Do you want the rules?

> 1 —or— 2

You're in a bar, and there's a raid!

> 1 —or— 2

The lady prohi, Agent Byrd, orders her bulls to search the place. The owner of the Grand Poseidon, Mr Donnie Cantaloupes, claims innocence.

Weedy guy translates. Mr C can't say anything truthful.

A bull, Johnathan, reports there's no alcohol anywhere and everyone's sober.

Byrd orders the exits secured until the deception is uncovered. You make your way to the lobby.

Hotel Lobby

> x me. i. x rags.

> x mermaid. x tank. x Seattle. x desk.

> search desk. (You don't do searching.)

> x couches. x paneling.

> s. (The concierge briefly appears to block your way.)

> e. (There's a shimmer? Did you taste champagne?)

First Floor Corridor

> x paintings. e. (You taste freezing gin!)

A woman in spinster clothes walks beside you, stares at you, then walks north into the gent's changing room.

Natatorium

> x scene. (You find a shed door to the east.)

> x pool. x baths. x tiles.

> s.

Ladies' Changing Room

> x lockers. open lockers. (Too much to open at random.)

> x stocking. take it.

> n. e.

Boiler Room

Don't play with the wheel just yet. It adjusts the temperature of the pool.

> x pipes. x wheel. x boiler.

> w. n.

Gents' Changing Room

Hear breathing from locker 77.

> open 77. (Weird stuff happens!)

> 1. (You inhale. You're carried to a room and you sleep.)

> 1. (You stand.)

Closet

> x cot. x clippings. (all about ghost sightings.)

> x novels. n.

Second Floor Corridor, Right in the Middle

I suggest heading west to the elevator right away first, where we can get something very helpful, including information, and then explore the rest of this floor.

> w.

Second Floor Corridor, West End

> push button. (The elevator operator starts a chat with you.)

> 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1.

You put on the offered glasses and see a ghost! Interact with the ghost until you drink it!

> 3. 3. 3. 3. (You drink it!)

> 1. (Kip says you have the Taste as well as the Sight and pushes you back into the corridor.)

Thanks, Kip. You're a pal.

> i. x cheaters. wear cheaters.

> n.

The Atlantic Suite

You walk into a seance. A voice bids you SIT IN a chair.

> sit in chair. x Ping. (She's possessed!)

> x table. knock on table. (Can't do it while holding hands.)

Hm. Perhaps come back here later.

> stand. s. s.

The Pacific Suite

This room is boring.

> x picture. x bed. n. e. e.

Second Floor Corridor, East End

You see a glow from the cart.

> x cart. (It's possessed.! It needs laundry.)

> put stocking in cart. (It overturns, spilling a uniform and a ghost!)

> x ghost. drink ghost. (Ah. Your second drink.)

> x uniform. take it. x cart.

> n.

The Arctic Suite

> x note. read note. (Rowland Stork, the architect, mentions a secret gift in his room.)

> x dust. x bottles. x table.

> x model. (It has a ghost!)

> in.

Gingerbread Hotel Lobby

This is weird.

> n.

Gingerbread Neptune Lounge

Nothing in here.

> s. e.

Gingerbread Natatorium

> x pool. eat pool. (Nope. It's hard and old.)

> w. u.

Gingerbread Second Floor Corridor

> ne. (Just your head fits into...)

Gingerbread Arctic Suite

> x model. (A bomb with an "EMERGENCY DEFUSE" button!)

> push button. (You can't reach it with your tongue.)

Come back here later.

> sw. d. out. s. s.

The Indian Suite

Crispin is possessed by a ghost!

> x Crispin. x dropcloth. x canvases. x easel. x bowl.

You can take the bowl if you want to, but you don't need it.

> talk to Crispin.

> 1. 1. 1. 1. (He gives you a textbook)

> 2. (He doesn't know now, but if it was on the table, he'd know it.)

> 1. (He'd never be accepted.)

> 3.

> x textbook. (by Dr. Winston Clive)

> read textbook. (Need a beautiful container with three fruits.)

> sit on table. (He'd like that, but he must paint a container of fruit.)

> n. w. s.

Closet

Wearing the uniform will let you enter many places that are normally blocked to you.

> remove rags. wear uniform.

> n. w.

Second Floor Corridor, West End

> push button. 1. n.

Neptune Lounge

> x daiquiri. (You take the banana.)

> x banana. x blower. take it.

> x napkins. x chandeliers. x bar.

> x stage. (Placard for Barnaby Mooch the Magnificient Pooch)

> x placard. (Can unlock anything)

> x mural. (of Nereid vs Naiad, signed by C. Fourment.)

> e.

Kitchen

You can get in here while wearing the uniform. Otherwise, a concierge blocks you.

> x fridge. open it. take orange. x it. close fridge.

> w. n.

Dressing Room

> read reminder.

> x crate. x costumes. x props. x mirror.

Get the dog and test his tricks:

> open crate. (Barnaby Mooch is free.)

> x dog. toe tap. heel tap. click heels. (He farts!)

> take dog.

> s. s. s.

Hotel Office

You can get in here only while wearing the uniform.

> x apple. take it.

> x desks. x paperwork.

> e.

Vault

> x slot. x window. x door.

> put dog in slot. (He escapes and the ghost does too.)

> x ghost. drink ghost. (That's your third drink.)

Let's take our trained pooch to a seance:

> take dog.

> w. n. push button. 1. n.

The Atlantic Suite

> drop dog. sit in chair.

> toe tap. (The dog jumps, hitting the table.)

> heel tap. (The dog howls.)

> click heels. (Chaos erupts! Madame is unconscious, and the others fled.)

> x Ping. look. x ghost. drink ghost. (That's your fourth drink.)

> s. e. e. n.

Arctic Suite

> in. u. ne.

Gingerbread Arctic Suite

> blow blower. (You shut off the bomb, and a ghost emerges out the window.)

> sw. d. out.

The Arctic Suite

> x ghost. drink ghost. (That's your fifth drink.)

> s. s.

The Indian Suite

> eat apple. eat banana. eat orange.

> sit on table. (Crispin paints you, then leaves the painting and ghost behind.)

> x painting. (You can't look at it?)

> look. x portrait. (Ah, there it is.)

> drink ghost. (That's your sixth drink.)

Time to visit the third floor.

> n. w. w. push button. 2.

Third Floor

The palooka will let you in if you're wearing the uniform.

> x palooka. talk to palooka. (He growls.)

> e.

The Imbrium Suite

> x getup. take it.

> x goldfish. x aquarium. x couches. x carpeting.

> sit on couches. e.

Master Bedroom

> x Gams. (She's possessed!) x vanity. x bed.

> talk to Gams.

> 1. 1. 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

So, Gams wants a boiled oyster.

> w. w. w.

Damp Closet

You'll need to wear the mermaid getup for any swimming.

> x hatch. open it. (Water a foot down.)

> remove uniform. wear getup. drop all.

> d. d.

Tank Bottom

Don't worry much about drowning. It's not that sort of game.

> take oyster. x seaweed. x pebbles. x lobby.

> u. u.

Damp Closet

> remove getup. close hatch. take all but getup.

> wear uniform. x oyster.

> open oyster. (sealed tight!)

Head for the natatorium:

> e. push button. 1. e. e.

Natatorium

Check the pool. You want it boiling hot.

> x pool. put oyster in pool. (It sinks)

> e.

Boiler Room

Each turn of the wheel changes the pool temperature from boiling hot to bubbling hot to lukewarm to ice, then back to boiling hot again. You can re-take the oyster when it's bubbling or lukewarm, but not when it's boiling or ice.

I don't know what temperature the pool is to start with; it seems to vary. If necessary, turn the wheel as often as you need to to first get the water boiling, with the valve fully open, then just once more to reduce the heat.

> turn wheel. (as often as necessary)

> w.

Natatorium

If the oyster is cooked, it's now called Oysters Amour.

> x pool. x oysters. take oysters.

Now back to Gams on the third floor:

> w. w. push button. 2. e. e.

Master Bedroom

Weirdly, you can't just give the oyster directly. You must do it via her conversation menu.

> talk to Gams. 5.

She gives the oyster to Cookie and Vincent, her goldfish. Then she leaves, but her ghost stays.

> drink ghost. (That's your seventh drink.)

> w.

The Imbrium Suite

> x goldfish. (They're floating, swollen, and snoring. S'okay?)

Head back down to the ladies' changing room:

> w. push button. 1. e. e. s.

Ladies' Changing Room

I just want to be in our own clothes for the finale.

> remove uniform. wear rags.

> n. n.

Gents' Changing Room

> x locker. open locker.

> 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1.

You get a vision of the past that reveals several surprising secrets, get rid of the last ghost, drink the most epic of drinks, reunite a family, then stagger home with a new dog. Quite a night, Hazel.

*** THE END ***

Oddly, there's still a prompt since we're still in conversation menu mode.

> quit

Extras

Characters

The people:

• Donnie Cantaloupes is the owner of the Grand Poseidon Hotel. He gets around his odd affliction of being physically unable to tell the truth by saying everything in the form of a question.
• A weedy assistant to Donnie attempts to translate what he's saying.
• Agent Byrd is a lady prohi attempting to bust the place for illegal sale of alcohol.
• Some bulls (male prohis) assist Agent Byrd. One is named Johnathan.
• Kipper Fanucci, or just Kip, is a very friendly elevator operator and keen on ghost stories.
• Madame Ping Ping and half a dozen men and woman are trying to have a seance in the Atlantic Suite.
• Crispin Fourment is an uninspired artist tormented by his need to paint a beautiful container of fruit.
• The concierge blocks you from entering the kitchen or office unless you're in a hotel uniform.
• The palooka guarding the door to the Imbrium Suite doesn't like talking.
• Gams Gillespie is a former chorus girl and Donnie's current girlfriend. She was also the mermaid seen in the tank early in the game.

The animals:

• Barnaby Mooch, the Magnificent Pooch is a dog trained to do several tricks. He can also escape from anything that isn't nailed shut.
• Cookie and Vincent are Gams's pet goldfish.
• A thirty-pound oyster is minding its own business at the bottom of the water tank.

The ghosts:

• One ghost is sitting on top of Kip's shoulder.
• The freshly laundered ghost is in the laundry cart.
• The secured stored ghost is in the vault.
• The mystic ghost is possessing Madame Ping in the Atlantic Suite.
• The objectively correct ghost is in the gingerbread model of the hotel in the Arctic Suite.
• The self-doubting ghost is possessing Crispin in the Indian Suite.
• The piscine ghost is possessing Gams in the Master Bedroom.
• Mildred Waverly was a temperance crusader who died eight years ago by drinking denatured alcohol. She was also secretly in love with Donnie. And surprise!—Agent Byrd is Rosie, their daughter! Mildred's spirit is in the blackened locker in the gents' changing room and she's responsible for all the wacky things happening tonight.

Also mentioned:

• The old lady who is your landlady is someone you're trying not to upset any further.
• Several patrons and the bartender are mentioned in the scrum for the door during the raid.
• Rowland Stork is the aggrieved architect of the hotel.
• Dr. Winston Clive wrote the textbook that Crispin gives you.
• Walter Byrd believes that Rosie is his child.
• The mother of Barnaby's owner wrote the reminder.

Credits

From the response to CREDITS:

Zozzled

Writing and Art by Steph Cherrywell

Playtested by:

• Bitter Karela
• Hanon Ondricek.

Inventory

• your best set of glad rags. You're wearing them.
• You can't undress just anywhere. You can take the rags off in the ladies' changing room, the dressing room, the closet on the second floor, and the damp closet on the third floor.
• You will need to remove the rags in order to wear another outfit; see the bellhop's uniform and the mermaid's getup.
• a pair of spook-spotting cheaters. Kip, the elevator operator, gives them to you during your initial conversation with her.
• Wear the cheaters; they'll let you see where the ghosts are.
• an art theory textbook. Crispin in the Indian Suite will give it to you when you talk to him.
• Read it to learn you need a beautiful container containing three pieces of fruit. So, beautiful, why don't you eat some fruit?
• an uninspiring bowl. It's in the Indian Suite; you can take it after talking to Crispin.
• You don't need the bowl.
• a party blower. It's in the Neptune Lounge.
• When your head is in the Gingerbread Arctic Suite, blow the blower to turn off the bomb.
• a stinky stocking. It's in the ladies' changing room.
• Put the stocking in the laundry cart that's in the east end of the second floor corridor. The cart will accept it and spill over, dropping a uniform and a ghost.
• a bellhop's uniform. It falls out of the laundry cart in the east end of the second floor corridor when you put the stinky stocking into the cart.
• If you're wearing the uniform, you can enter employee-only areas like the kitchen, the hotel office, and the Imbrium Suite.
• three pieces of fruit:
• a banana. Acquire it by examining the daiquiri in the Neptune Lounge. Eat it.
• an orange. It's in the kitchen fridge. Eat it.
• an apple. It's in the hotel office. Eat it.
• After eating all three fruits, return to the Indian Suite and sit on the table so Crispin can finally paint you.
• Barnaby Mooch, the Magnificent Pooch. Find him by opening the crate in the dressing room.
• Read the reminder there to learn about Barnaby and his commands: HEEL TAP for "singing", TOE TAP for "dancing", and CLICK HEELS for, well, it doesn't say, but it's for farting. He must be on the floor to do any of his stunts.
• He doesn't follow you around. Carry him to new locations.
• First, in the Vault, put the dog in the slot. The dog and the stored ghost will escape.
• Secondly, in the Atlantic Suite, drop the dog and sit in the chair. Toe tap, heel tap, then click heels for a memorable seance and to free Madame Ping's ghost.
• a mermaid getup. It's in the Imbrium Suite.
• You'll need to wear this when swimming inside the tank. Change outfits in the damp closet.
• You can also wear this to swim in the natatorium pool when it's lukewarm, if you're so inclined.
• a thirty-pound oyster. It's at tank bottom; you'll need to be wearing the mermaid getup to reach it.
• Put the oyster into the natatorium's pool while it's boiling hot.
• In the boiler room, turn the wheel once to reduce the temperature to bubbling. Now you can take the cooked oyster.
• (Note, you can also take the oyster when the water is lukewarm, but not when it's ice!
• Give the Oysters Amour to Gams in her master bedroom on the third floor.
• a blackened locker. It's in the gents' changing room.
• After you've drunk all the other ghosts, open this locker. There's no need to pick it up.

Thank You to my Patreon supporters

This walkthrough was funded via Patreon with

• the support of Robin Johnson, Ville Lavonius, Andrew Schultz, Kenneth Hon, Carl Muckenhoupt, Mark Musante, and Phil Tatro;
• the generous support of Janice M Eisen and Matthew Foxley;
• the very generous support of Karl Ove Hufthammer and Rus Whang;
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• and the invisible support of several anonymous patrons.