Key & Compass presents:
Are You Too Chicken to Make a Deal?
by Mitchell Taylor

• Walkthrough
• Extras
  • Characters, Endings
• Thank You to my Patreon supporters
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Walkthrough

A dusty lane

> x chicken. x cameras. x fields.

After three turns, the chicken tells you you're a contestant in a new game show. You can either cross the road to win a joke book or just stay where you are to try to win something else.

> cross road. (You win the joke book.)

*** You've settled for less ***

> undo

> x book. x road. x tracks. x other side.

After four turns of not crossing the dusty road, the chicken offers you three new roads to cross instead. Examine them; they will have randomized descriptions hinting at what prize you'll get if you cross that road.

> x road one. x road two. x road three.

Here's the secret move of the game:

> sit down. (This command lets you read a secret message in the tracks: Pick Road Two. This action also changes the prize associated with road two.)

If you feel like wasting time:

> ask chicken about tracks. ask chicken about show.

> ask chicken about chicken. ask chicken about me.

> ask chicken about prizes. x lights.

But in the end you must cross a road:

> cross one —or— cross two —or— cross three. (You win a prize.)

If you won a poor prize:

*** You've settled for less ***

If you won a good prize:

*** You've made out rather nicely. ***

If you won the Midas Touch:

*** Enjoy it while you last ***

If you won the Power to Make Money Selling Interactive Fiction:

*** You have won ***

Extras

Characters

• The chicken who is the hostess of the game show.
• The three chicks who apply makeup to the chicken every so often.
• The unseen deep voice who announces what prize you won.
• The unseen audience who boos, laughs, or applauds at various times.

Endings

• You've settled for less if you win a poor prize.
• You've made out rather nicely. if you win a good prize.
• Enjoy it while you last if you won the Midas Touch.
• You have won if you won the Power to Make Money Selling Interactive Fiction.

Poor prizes are:

• The joke book, won if you cross the dusty road offered at the beginning.
• A "One Thousand Answers" book, won if you cross the road that the chicken seem to take an interest in.
• Stiffy Makane's phone number, won if you cross the road where you can make out a telephone pole.

Good prizes are:

• Spam-Killer, won if you cross the road where you catch a whiff of pork.
• 5 Packets of Time, won if you cross the road where you heard loud ticking.
• A trip to the Underground Empire, won if you cross the road where you see the outline of a brass lantern.

Rare prize:

• The Midas Touch, won if you cross the road where the road for an instant seems to be made of solid gold.

Best prize:

• The Power to Make Money Selling Interactive Fiction, won if you "sit down" (to read the hidden message formed by the tracks) then cross road two. Sitting down changes what prize you'd normally win by crossing road two.

Note that not all prizes are available in the same game session and you can only win one prize per game.

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