TMUK Text Adventures #1: Chapter 1 - You awake in a room...

[blueshift]

I am not sure how unshackling ourselves can help, it would just be getting rid of armour. We must beat the devil dogs first

LOOK for any items we can use to construct a crude cannon

[Bogatan]

Use key to remove bed.
Use bed as trampoline.
Bounce on to the back of a beast and ride to safety.

[blueshift]

Nov 14, 2018 10:22:35 GMT Bogatan said:

Use key to remove bed.
Use bed as trampoline.
Bounce on to the back of a beast and ride to safety.

I approve

[Stomski]

Nov 14, 2018 10:22:35 GMT Bogatan said:

Use key to remove bed.
Use bed as trampoline.
Bounce on to the back of a beast and ride to safety.

Instinct kicks in as you decide to think outside the box... You try to use the key in the shackles, but because you only have one free hand it's a bit tricky to do quick enough to avoid the creatures. You put up a valiant fight, but there's no way you can win this one.

GAME OVER

Final Score: 7/250

RELOADING FROM SAVE POINT

LOADING COMPLETE

You're standing beneath the window... Dog like creatures are bearing down on you!

Inventory:	Transformers pants (wearing), camp bed (shackled), shelves, green uniform (wearing), small key
Location:	Remote courtyard
Connected Locations:	Small room

Current Score: 7/250

[Stomski]

Hnnnnnngggggggggg... So tough for me not to give a hint!! I don't think the solution is even that obtuse, will be interested in whether you hate me or just kick yourselves when you figure it out.

[Bogatan]

Use shelves and the camp bed to build a makeshift fortifications from the beasts.
Use the key to unlock shackles.
Break off piece of pipe from wall.
Use broken pipe to stab beasts as they attach fortifications.
Repeat stabbing till all beasts have died or fled.
Use bed as trampoline to relieve the stress of todays events.

[Stomski]

Nov 14, 2018 14:52:31 GMT Bogatan said:

Use shelves and the camp bed to build a makeshift fortifications from the beasts.
Use the key to unlock shackles.
Break off piece of pipe from wall.
Use broken pipe to stab beasts as they attach fortifications.
Repeat stabbing till all beasts have died or fled.
Use bed as trampoline to relieve the stress of todays events.

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Software Failure. Press left mouse button to continue.
Guru Meditation #B000B135.12345678

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Hrm. I've sent the error code to the programming guys. They said it was something to do with your solution being too convoluted for the hardware to process. Let me reboot the system...

TMUK-CYOA Script Engine v1.4
Checking RAM... 100%
Verifying ROM... 100%
Verifying save games... 100%
Loading command parser... done!
Eating churros... done!
Loading game data "awakeroom.cyoa"... done!

You awake in a room...

...and your eyes part to reveal a blank wall. The combination of the darkness that surrounds you and a slight coldness puts you immediately at unease. Led on your side you're finding it hard to focus. At first you think it's the lack of light, but no, it's taken a few seconds, but the realisation of a terrible pain in your head hits. You close your eyes to try to ease the pain and think to yourself 'How did I get there'?

You roll over on the uncomfortable folding camp bed you've been sleeping on, but find that one of your wrists is shackled to it, inhibiting your movement somewhat. Despite this you manage to negotiate your legs to sit up, allowing you to see more of your surroundings. There's a door, a single window on the opposite wall and a pile of clothes in the corner. Yes, for whatever reason, you're now just in your Transformers themed underpants. You at least remember putting those on this morning before leaving the house to go to work. You remember closing the front door, but after that... not a lot. Wait... Who even are you?

You hear noises outside the door, some shuffling that comes closer and then moves away. Outside, the distant hum of industry.

But you can't deal with that now, now that the pain in your head is easing, first order of business, get up and get dressed and then to get out of this room.

Inventory:	Transformers pants, camp bed (shackled)
Location:	Small room
Connected Locations:	None

Current Score: 0/250

[Bogatan]

I win! I win!!!!!!!!!

[blueshift]

Nov 14, 2018 17:11:45 GMT Bogatan said:

I win! I win!!!!!!!!!

Well done!!!

[Stomski]

I'm not sure not reaching the end credits and a score of 7/250 constitutes a win, but congrats all the same.

[Grand Moff Muffin]

Maybe we should think a bit more about our situation, which strikes me as somewhat fishy.

Apparently, someone has taken us prisoner, and, by accident or design, given us amnesia. But they haven't harmed us, which suggests they want us alive. They don't want us eaten by dogs, or they would have put us outside with the dogs. And they haven't done a very good job of imprisoning us, since they've left us in a situation where we can go out the window. And they've left a key lying around, and a motorbike that requires no key.

IT DOESN'T ADD UP.

Any suggested explanations?

Martin

[blueshift]

They have also stripped us down to our pants.

Is Shockprowl behind it all???

[Grand Moff Muffin]

Nov 14, 2018 18:27:15 GMT blueshift said:

They have also stripped us down to our pants.

Is Shockprowl behind it all???

You're a fine one to talk!

Martin

[blueshift]

Nov 14, 2018 18:51:47 GMT Grand Moff Muffin said:

Nov 14, 2018 18:27:15 GMT blueshift said:

They have also stripped us down to our pants.

Is Shockprowl behind it all???

You're a fine one to talk!

Martin

Hey, I let you go after a week!!

[Stomski]

You have some clues already, more await you in this chapter. I can say no more. If you figure the main mystery of this chapter out, don't ruin it for others

PM me to guarantee the point allocation!

[Pinwig]

Typical! I come back from a day at work to find the kids have broken the game.

So are we back to square one? If so, what did we not investigate in the room the first time? We didn't try the door.

WEAR clothes
FOLD bed
CARRY bed
OPEN door

Just to confirm it's locked. It might be the the dogs are purely there to force us back into this room after we get the key to the cuff.

[Stomski]

Nov 14, 2018 20:48:06 GMT Pinwig said:

WEAR clothes
FOLD bed
CARRY bed
OPEN door

You shake off the fuzziness in your brain. Realising you're slightly cold and don't want to get any colder, you stand as best you can and drag yourself and the bed to the clothes in the corner. In the crumpled mess they're left in, you notice the letters ARMED and BUNCE on the front and back on green material. You manage to get them on despite the bed shackled to your wrist. 'How on earth did I get it over my arm through that sleeve? That was really strange' you think to yourself as you realise the glaring hole in the puzzle laid out by the writer that wasn't noticed previously.

Inventory Item Added: Green uniform (+1 Point)

You fold the camp bed so that it's easier to carry and as you stand you knock your head on a shelf on the wall. It doesn't help your headache much, but hey, shelves you hadn't noticed before! You walk to the door, try the handle, but unfortunately the door is locked so doesn't open.

Inventory:	Transformers pants (wearing), camp bed (shackled), green uniform (wearing)
Location:	Small room
Connected Locations:	None

Current Score: 1/250

[Grand Moff Muffin]

I can't remember whether or not we tried the outside door when we were outside.

I suppose we could try starting the motorbike without actually mounting it, see if we can set it going off on its own and see if the dogs chase it.

Martin

[Stomski]

I feel I may be losing some audience enthusiasm here so I'll offer the typical advice for all adventure games... Details have significance.

[Pinwig]

Sorry, I was at a concert otherwise I'd have been on this. It's harder to look back at the previous on my phone. So we need to

TAKE shelves

I did wonder how we were getting the clothes on, but we have bigger things to worry about! Right, so we can rule out the door for now.

[Pinwig]

Nov 14, 2018 21:43:31 GMT Grand Moff Muffin said:

I can't remember whether or not we tried the outside door when we were outside.

We did; it had no discernible way to open it. Looked like a sliding door but had no control panel.

[Stomski]

Nov 15, 2018 0:14:51 GMT Pinwig said:

TAKE shelves

The shelves come freely from the brackets.

Inventory Item Added: Shelves (+1 point)

Inventory:	Transformers pants (wearing), camp bed (shackled), green uniform (wearing), shelves
Location:	Small room
Connected Locations:	None

Current Score: 2/250
AUTO-SAVED

[Pinwig]

Right, having been back through the points we scored, we need to

LOOK outside

to get the point back for discovering the courtyard.

[Pinwig]

I'm going back through all the text output to try and compile a picture.

[Stomski]

I was thinking of putting pics together myself, but I've been enjoying the writing part too much.

You don't need to look outside to get the point, just reaching the new location will do it.

[Pinwig]

Yep yep. I'm seeing the direction signs you've given but can't piece them together. I'll summarise in a mo.

[Pinwig]

Nov 15, 2018 21:12:19 GMT Stomski said:

You don't need to look outside to get the point, just reaching the new location will do it.

But we got +1 for discovering it by looking, then +3 for entering it. I went back and tracked the points to see where they came from.

[Stomski]

Yes, if you just walk into a new location you get points for discovering it and getting to it. If it's at the same time, you still get both.

[Pinwig]

Ah, ok.

[blueshift]

Nov 15, 2018 22:11:20 GMT Stomski said:

Yes, if you just walk into a new location you get points for discovering it and getting to it. If it's at the same time, you still get both.

Ok

STICK head outside window

To get the three points as now we have physically entered it without falling down to the dog pit