Key & Compass presents:
baby tree
by Lester Galin

This short minimalist surreal horror piece begins with a verse from PLACEBO's "Song to say goodbye". You play as a woman in bed with a knife. You can't sleep. A boil on your throat hurts too much.

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

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Walkthrough
- Characters, Credits, Inventory
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Walkthrough

Note: Many standard commands are disabled in this story to help focus the player on the essentials.

room

> x me. x bed. x knife. x throat.

> about. xyzzy.

> take knife. cut throat. x thing.

> x dog. (It eats the thing.)

> x throat. (Dog goes east.)

> z. z.

You feel stronger now. That means you can stand up.

> stand. e.

outside

> x dog. x tree. kill tree. look.

> w.

room

> enter bed. sleep.

*** The End ***

Characters

Your loyal dog eats the horrible thing that falls out of your throat boil, then soon dies.
A baby tree quickly grows from the dead dog. Its fruit are the heads of babies, and they're all crying.
Ghost children kill you as you sleep. It's strongly implied they're the ghosts of all the babies you killed prior to when this story begins.

Credits

The response to ABOUT is:

"Baby Tree" was written in one afternoon. I will not explain myself. Nevertheless, I can be reached at email redacted

Inventory

The INVENTORY command is disabled in this story, but you still have a couple things regardless:

a knife. It's in the room.

Cut your throat (with the knife).
Cut the baby tree (with the knife).

a boil on your throat. It's part of you.

Cut your throat (with the knife). A thing falls out. You're too weak to take the thing before your dog eats it.

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