Key & Compass presents:
Apocolyptica
by D. Jacob "Bishop" Wildstrom

In this tiny one-room game, you play as a street worker for the Church of Cthulu the Kitsch Collector. You can sense that something unbelievably monstrous is coming. Very soon, Life as You Know It will end unless you can prevent it.

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

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Extras
- Characters, Endings, Inventory
Thank You to my Patreon supporters
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On the Street

You have twenty-eight turns to prevent the world's doom. Your tools for this task: a crayon and a signboard.

> x me. i. x crayon. x signboard. x vendor. x jewelry.

> buy jewelry. ask vendor about jewelry.

> draw. remove board. turn board. x board. wear board.

> x pamphlet. look. take bill. x bill.

> buy jewelry. x talisman. put talisman on pentagram.

*** You have saved the world (for now) ***

Extras

Characters

A street vendor is selling some jewelry from his table. He looks seedy.
A shaved-headed, ascetic young man gives you a pamphlet at one point.
Cthulu the Kitsch Collector himself briefly appears to accept your offering in the winning ending.
Legions of demons and strangling mists appear in the losing ending.

Mentioned:

Death: The High Cost of Living, a comic book by Neil Gaiman is quoted when you purchase the talisman.

Endings

The world has died if you fail to make a suitable offering to the Kitsch Collector in time.
You have saved the world (for now) if you do make a suitable offering to the Kitsch Collector in time.

Inventory

a green crayon. You're carrying it. Draw with it; you'll draw a pentagram on the street.
a signboard. You're wearing it. Remove it, turn it inside-out, and wear it again so it's displaying its "THE END IS NOW" message.
a pamphlet. An ascetic young man gives this to you when you wear the signboard with "THE END IS NOW" side facing out. Examine it; a $10 bill will fall out of it onto the ground.
a $10 bill. It falls out of the pamphlet when you read it. Buy jewelry from the vendor with the bill.
a talisman. To get it, buy jewelry from the vendor using the $10 bill. Put the talisman on the pentagram you drew with the crayon.

Thank You to my Patreon supporters

This walkthrough is provided free of charge since I wrote this walkthrough prior to January 2015 when I began my Patreon account, and also because the work it's based on has less than fifteen locations (so I wouldn't have charged for it anyway). I've since reformatted this walkthrough to use my currently preferred style. I hope you enjoy it!

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