Key & Compass presents:
The Awakening
by Dennis Matheson

• Map
• Walkthrough
• Extras
  • Characters, Credits, Endings, Inventory, Score
• Thank You to my Patreon supporters
• External links:
  • This game at IFDB, IFWiki, and ifwizz.
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Map

Walkthrough

In the Mud

> x me. i. (Carrying nothing.)

> x rain. x mud. u.

Graveyard

> x branch. take branch. take limb.

> x marker. read marker.

> x oaks. x markers. x moss. x ivy.

> x church. x windows. x steeple.

> e.

West Side of the Church

> x trail. x grass.

> n —or— ne.

North Side of the Church

> x trees. x ivy.

> e —or— se.

East Side of the Church

> x gravel. take gravel. x debris.

> s —or— sw.

Front of the Church

Get the dog to chase you around the church, wrapping its chain as it goes.

> x dog. x chain.

> hit dog. nw. ne. se. sw.

The dog's stuck at on the east side.

> x oak. x sidewalk.

> n. (+20)

Church Porch

> x railing. take railing.

> x section. (That sounds like a ladder.)

> x ladder. (Yup. It's a ladder.)

> n.

Vestibule

> x windows. x debris.

> x trap. put ladder under trap.

Let's see what else is on this level first before going up.

> n.

Sanctuary

> x portrait. x eyes. (Too far away.)

> x pews. x glass. take board. (No; nailed in place.)

> n.

Pulpit

> x podium. x black book. read book. (Another reference to eyes.)

> take book. n.

Small Office

> x desk. take journal. x it. read it. (It's blank.)

> x robe. take it.

> x bookshelf. move it. take red book. x it. read it.

The grimoire describes two rituals. One puts a soul into a container. The other uses the stored soul for storing sin. That is, your sins become the other person's sins; your sins are stored in the stored soul, not in your soul.

> xyzzy.

> x ashes. x glass. x stopper.

> take stopper. take ashes.

> search journal. (This is your hint that there's indentations to work with.)

> put ashes on journal. read journal. (+5; "I cannot continue to corrupt her.")

> s. s. s.

Vestibule

> take ladder. n.

Sanctuary

> put ladder under portrait. u.

Near Painting

> x eyes. look through eyes. (See a space with purple curtain.)

> d.

Sanctuary

> take ladder. s.

Vestibule

> put ladder under trap. u. (+5)

Steeple Chamber

> x rope. x door. (It has a handle.) open door. (locked)

> pull rope. climb rope.

Belfry

> x bell. x beams. x branch. s.

Top of Oak Tree

> x forest. x town. d. (No, too far.)

> n. d.

Steeple Chamber

> tie rope to handle.

> take ladder. (Not enough leverage.)

> d.

Vestibule

> take ladder. s. s.

Front of the Church

> put ladder against oak —or— put ladder under oak.

> u. n.

Belfry

> push bell. (+10; door and bell go out the window.)

> s. d.

Front of the Church

> x bell. (The rope and door aren't there with it.)

> take ladder. n. n.

Vestibule

> put ladder under trap. u. n. (+5)

Inner Chamber

> x man. x sofa. x lantern. x bottles.

> x table. x curtain.

> ask man about man. (He's Silas, your servant and teacher?)

> ask Silas about me. ask Silas about her.

> ask Silas about villagers. ask Silas about decision.

> ask Silas about bottles. ask Silas about soul.

> ask Silas about church.

> take bottles. (Blue is warm; green feels cold and sickly.)

> take lantern.

> n. (+5. You see a blue eyed creature in a mirror.)

> x mirror. open mirror. x holes. look through holes.

> break green bottle. (+10)

Silas's soul goes to Hell, and his body becomes a corpse. The church starts to burn (from the lantern if present, or a lightning strike if it isn't). You escape with your bottle.

*** You have won ***

Extras

Characters

• A guard dog growls at you at the front of the church.
• An old man named Silas is on the old sofa in the Inner Chamber.

Mentioned:

• A woman refered to only as she or her was someone whose soul you were using to store your sins in until you freed her.
• The villagers disapprove of your relationships and your magics.

Credits

From the one of the menu items in response to ABOUT:

Credits and Acknowledgments

This game would not exist without the help and efforts of several people

First, credit must be given to Graham Nelson for developing the Inform compiler without which this game would not have been possible. Inform, a language for developing interactive fiction games, is available via ftp from:

ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/inform

Second, the menus used in this game (including this one) are developed using L. Ross Raszewski's menu libraries. These libraries (AltMenu.h, DoMenu.h and Hints.h) are also available from ftp.gmd.de.

And finally, thanks must be given to the many fine people on rec.arts.int-fiction who have answered so many of my questions. Thanks go to Andrew Plotkin, L. Ross Raszewski, Joe Mason, Joyce Haslam, Mary Kuhner, Michael Gentry, "FemaleDeer/Doeadeer3" and all the others whose names I have misplaced. Thanks, all of you.

Notes:

• The IF Archive is no longer at GMD; the current location of the Inform 6 directory on the IF Archive is at ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform6/.
• However, you should also know that there's an Inform 7 now, and the Inform 7 directory is at http://ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform7/ and its homepage is at inform7.com.

Endings

• You have died
• if the dog lands three attacks on you;
• if you jump from either the Belfry or from the Top of Oak Tree;
• or if you break the blue bottle.
• You have won
• if you break the green bottle.

Incidentally, considering that the blue bottle makes you immortal until it's broken, your "deaths" by dog or by falling can only be temporary incapacitation.

Inventory

• a broken limb. It's in the Graveyard; try to take the large branch to notice it. You don't need it.
• a handful of gravel. It's at the East Side of the Church; you can take some, but you don't need any.
• a broken length of railing. It's the loose railing on the Church Porch; take it. The railing acts like a ladder.
• You can put the railing under the trap in the Vestibule to reach the Steeple Chamber.
• You can put the railing under the portrait in the Sanctuary to reach Near Painting.
• You can put the railing under the oak in the Front of the Church to reach the Top of Oak Tree.
• a large black book. It's on the podium in the Pulpit. Read it.
• a journal. It's on the desk in the Small Office. Search it to note the indentations. Put ashes on the journal; now you can read it. Do read it.
• an embroidered robe. It's in the Small Office. You don't need it.
• an old grimoire. It's found in the Small Office after you move the bookshelf. Read it to learn two soul rituals.
• a handful of ashes. It's in the Small Office; you can take some. Put some ashes on the journal; now you can read it.
• a heavy stopper. Find it in the glass in the ashes in the Small Office. You don't need it.
• a heavy rope. It's in the Steeple Chamber and attached to the bell. You should tie it to the handle of the door there.
• a blue bottle. It's one of the pair of bottles on the table in the Inner Chamber; it feels warm. Take it, since it contains your soul, but do not break it!
• a green bottle. It's one of the pair of bottles on the table in the Inner Chamber; it feels cold and sickly. Break the green bottle to doom Silas to Hell and to win the game.
• an oil lantern. It's on the table in the Inner Chamber. You don't need it.

Score

You have so far scored your-score out of a possible 50, in several turns.

The score is made up as follows:

• 10 for getting past the guard dog
• 5 for entering the steeple
• 5 for entering the sealed room
• 5 for reading the journal
• 10 for opening the door
• 5 for discovering the truth
• 10 for extracting your revenge

Thank You to my Patreon supporters

This walkthrough was funded via Patreon with

• the support of Robin Johnson, Ville Lavonius, Andrew Schultz, Kenneth Hon, Jason McIntosh, Carl Muckenhoupt, Mark Musante, and Phil Tatro;
• the generous support of Janice M Eisen and Matthew Foxley;
• the very generous support of Karl Ove Hufthammer;
• the extremely generous support of Emily Short, Allen Garvin, Jesse McGrew, Jacqueline Ashwell, Marius Müller, and Jennifer Rexrode;
• and the invisible support of several anonymous patrons.