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Autumn, dark afternoon, time for Wishbringer!
#interactivefiction #infocom #wishbringer #retrogaming
We are playing on the C64 using Ozmoo. However after doing the cemetery part we arrive at the poodle, and we want to save the game here. It turns out Ozmoo has a bug. After save or restore, all the line breaks disappear, cutting off the text! Ouch!
Using the original interpreter we make it past the poodle and finally come to the Magick Shoppe. The old lady gives us something and wants us to help her find her kidnapped cat. The ransom letter was very weird (and is part of the game package). And I have the feeling she is a witch and just cast a spell...
Well, we have to find Wishbringer and the cat -- whose name is CHAOS.
I have a sneaky suspicion that we might have missed some stuff in the "real" world. But that's too late now... So let's go down to the cliff bottom, luckily we made a map, so the fog doesn't annoy us that much. I am still wondering what to do with that large branch.
Going to the bridge, we find the gate guarded by a bridge troll! However we have the rattling can that the old lday gave us... it contains... a RATTLE SNAKE! What else.
Near the lake we find a pit with a platypus in it. We use the huge branch to rescue the animal and it draws an X in the sand. Digging there gives us a silver whistle…
Blowing the whistle brings us to Misty Island, where we find a castle full of … Platypuses! The one we rescued was the princess. And the king gives us a magic hat to thank us for our deed.
#interactivefiction #infocom #wishbringer #retrogaming
TIL that the Wishbringer stone flouresces blue! Wow!
One thing that worries me: we befriended a small mailbox. However we also met a BIG mailbox. And the two fought and destroyed each other. I fear we MIGHT have to restart the game.
But in the meantime we take the opportunity to explore the underground. There are multiple entrances and it’s not really big. However you need the candle, or you will be eaten by a grue!
Incidentally we find a grue‘s nest. Sadly we are not quick enough to raid the fridge. I wonder how we can avoid the little beast…?
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!).
By the way: I added a 1541-II as device 9 to my setup so we can use the Franken-1541 as device 8 for the story disk and the 1541-II hosts the save disk. No more swapping! Yay!
#commodore #c1541 #c64 #retrogaming
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
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?
@root42@chaos.social orcs are near...
@root42@chaos.social "Return the cat to me." 😻 Aaaw
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I keep waiting for the right time to play this!