Key & Compass presents:
Awakened Deeply
by R.A. Cooper

• Map
• Walkthrough
• Extras
  • Characters, Credits, Endings, Inventory
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Map

Walkthrough

Darkness / Sleep Chambers

> i. push button.

> take note. x it.

> x knife. take it.

> x stars. x planets. x cryotube.

> x door. x mainframe. push lever. (door now unlocked)

> w. n.

Tunnel North

> x Yostin. x pockets. (You acquire a paper: "364".)

> x arm. take it. (nope)

> x door.

> s. w.

Tunnel West

> x hole. x crate. open it. (no)

> x panel. open it. (too high)

> get on crate. open panel.

> x controls. x switch. x wires.

> push switch. (The platform box arrives.)

> stand. enter box. (You travel to...)

Subway Station

> take recorder. x it. play it.

> x marks. x stores. x benches. x eateries.

> n.

Barracks Entry

> x computer. x dial.

> turn dial to 364. (door now unlocked)

> n.

Barracks Hall

A phone rings. You answer. "Smith" tells you to get to Engineering for your safety.

> w.

West Barracks

> x cadet. talk to cadet. (He dies. You take his tags.)

> x tags.

> x wall. x body. (You take a paper and pistol from Jimson.)

> i. read orders. x pistol.

> x table. x windows.

> e. e.

East Barracks

> x supplies. x forklift. (You take its battery.)

> x battery.

Return to Tunnel North:

> w. s. s. enter car. e. n.

Tunnel North

> shoot door. (with the pistol)

> x corpses. (You find Major Brickton.)

> x major. (You acquire an orb.)

> x orb. open orb. (It's now a six-sided shape.)

> s. w. enter box. w.

Labs Hall

> x gate. put orb in gate. (It's now open.)

> w.

Laboratory

> x mainframe. x power port.

> put battery in power port. (You find Doctor Jeffer's lab coat.)

> x coat. (You find a keycard, but...)

You hear footsteps approaching. You should hide.

> enter locker.

Darkness (inside Storage Locker)

Whoever's looking for you is unfriendly, but they don't find you, and will check the barracks next.

> open locker. out.

Laboratory

> take drive. x it.

> put drive in mainframe. (You hear a cadet's message.)

> e. e. e.

Warehouse

> x desk. x clipboard. (You take a drawing.)

> x shelves.

> x green placard. (has down-arrow)

> x red placard.

> x orange placard. (has up-arrow)

Here's where I stumbled: I didn't realize that the arrows were clues to LOOK UP and LOOK DOWN. In most games, I never think to look in any direction unless the game tells me upfront that that action is significant.

> look down. ("1 green")

> look up. ("2 orange" and "9 red")

> w. s.

Engineering Bay

> x gate. x moon.

> put keycard in slot. (The gate is unlocked.)

> s.

Engineering Port

You fake out then kill an Authority soldier.

> x soldier. x dweller.

> x symbol. x window.

> x communicator. x button.

> x keypad. (red-green-orange)

Type numbers seen in the warehouse in the color order suggested by the keypad.

> type 9. type 1. type 2.

> push button.

"Smith" gives you two options. Either use the escape pod he summons, or crash the ship into Station Landing.

> look. x destination button.

Choose your ending:

• > enter pod.
• > push button.

*** The End ***

Extras

Characters

• Captain Pitker is the player-character. You wake in the year 2890 and have adventure-sized pockets.
• Smith (an alias) communicates with you once on the barracks phone, and again from the communications panel in engineering. He opposes the Authority and has hacked your ship in various ways to assist you.
• Cadet Smith is dying in the west barracks. He lives just long enough to tell you that the attackers were from the home base.
• Authority soldiers are searching the ship, looking for you.
• A lone Authority soldier is in the engineering port, but you use the ol' fake heart attack trick and shoot him with his own pistol.

Found dead:

• Lieutenant Yostin is lying in the north tunnel in his dress uniform. His arm is severed.
• Colonel Jimson is dead behind the wall in the west barracks. His orders were to execute plan 9.
• Numerous corpses, including Major Brickton, are behind the welded door in the north tunnel.

Mentioned:

• Sergeant Riker failed to wake you when the ship was invaded, but he at least left you a note and a knife.
• An unnamed cadet left a message for their family on the recorder.
• Another unnamed cadet left a memo on their personal computer. This cadet mentions the Barracks commander, their bunk mate, and their bunk mate's uncle who's at Station Landing on Earth.
• Doctor Jeffers left a message for you on the lab's mainframe, confirming what Jones said and explaining why your ship was attacked.
• A cadet assistant to Jeffers left a message on a hard drive. They were clearly confused about what they heard about a mole named "Smith".

Credits

This is the response to CREDITS:

"Awakened Deeply" is a game made in 2024 solely by R.A. Cooper.

And this is the response to ABOUT:

Awakened Deeply, is an Interactive Fiction game by R.A. Cooper. I did not start working on this project with the IF comp in mind, but the dates aligned with me finishing the project. This is my rookie IF Comp entry as well as my first fully finished interactive fiction work. I took inspiration from the original Star Trek Series for this game, or "The Original Series" for you real fellow "TOS" Trekkies out there. I also was inspired a lot by Planetfall, the infocom game.

There are two places in which you can die in this game. However, you are allowed to type "undo" a generous amount of times.

For any puzzle specific issues, you can likely find the answer to any potential command issues in the provided read me documentation. You can also find the direct solution from the provided walkthrough.

I really appreciate you taking the time to play my game.

Endings

All endings end with the The End epitaph. The known endings are:

• You are gunned down by Authority soldiers
• if you leave the laboratory instead of hiding after you hear footsteps approach.
• You live the rest of your life in hidden isolation
• if you enter the escape pod. The Authority rules the galaxies harshly.
• You die a hero
• if you push the destination button. The ship destroys the Authority's stronghold on Earth. A revolution follows, and the galaxies enjoy freedom.

Inventory

Your inventory could be roughly divided into two groups: things that help you open doors, and things that help add to the story. Very little on the story side could be considered essential for solving the game.

• Release Button. You're carrying it.
• Push it to open your cryotube at the beginning of the game.
• Bloody Note. It's in your sleep chambers.
• Read it. It gives you a hint about what happened.
• Hunting Knife. It's in your sleep chambers.
• You don't actually need the knife, but you wouldn't leave it behind, would you?
• Yostin Note. Acquire it by examining Yostin's pockets.
• Read it. It has the number for the barracks door's dial.
• Recorder. It's at the subway statioh.
• Play it to hear its message.
• Dog Tags. Acquire them by talking to the cadet in the west barracks.
• Hold onto them. In the escape pod ending, you send the tags back to his family.
• Jimson's Orders. Acquire it by examining the body by the wall in the west barracks.
• Read it to learn slightly more what happened.
• Laser Pistol. Acquire it by examining the body by the wall in the west barracks.
• In tunnel north, shoot the door with it, then examine the corpses to find Major Brickton.
• Forklift Battery. Acquire it by examining the forklift in the east barracks.
• In the laboratory, put the battery into the power port of the mainframe.
• Orb. In tunnel north, after finding Major Brickton (see pistol), acquire the orb by examining him.
• In the labs hall, open the orb, then put the orb into the gate to unlock it. The orb is gone.
• Engineering Keycard. In the laboratory, after finding the lab coat (see battery), examine the coat to acquire the keycard.
• In the engineering bay, put the keycard into the slot to unlock the gate there.
• Hard Drive. It's in the laboratory.
• After inserting the battery into the mainframe's power port, put the hard drive into the mainframe to hear its message.
• Drawing. In the warehouse, acquire it by examining the clipboard that's on the desk.
• Examine the drawing. It's a drawing of the warehouse shelf colors, implying that the shelves or the colors or both are more important than they first appear.

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