Key & Compass presents:
Baggage
by Katherine Farmar

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

Walkthrough

Road

> x me. i. x satchel.

> x hope. x belief. x regret.

> x memory. x fear. x resentment.

Note the suggestion that things can change.

> x evergreen. x bramble. x road.

> n. s. w.

After 15 turns, you see a woman near the bramble. Somehow, you didn't see her earlier.

> x woman.

> look. x oddments.

> talk to woman.

> ask woman about oddments. (She can't leave them nor carry them.)

> ask woman about bramble.

> ask woman about evergreen.

> ask woman about road.

> show belief to woman.

> show memory to woman.

You must take the oddments and give them back to her as moments to get her into the proper frame of mind.

> take oddments. again. (She cries.)

> i. x moments.

You're sure that the moments can be transformed.

> change moments. (You can't do this for these.)

> give moments to woman.

> woman, change moments. (They change into butterflies that carry her away.)

Change your hope into a lantern:

> change hope. yes. x lantern.

Change your resentment into a machete:

> change resentment. yes. x machete.

Change your regret into some strong rope:

> change regret. yes. x rope.

Change your fear into gardening gloves:

> change fear. yes. x gloves.

Change your memory into goggles:

> change memory. yes. x goggles.

Change your belief into a map of the world:

> change belief. yes. x map.

The map shows a tunnel under the evergreen hedge.

> x tunnel. (You'll need a lantern and a rope to go that way.)

You have a choice:

• Go east past the evergreen hedge into a forest.
• Go west past the bramble hedge into a meadow.

Extras

Characters

• A dusty traveller is sitting by the bramble hedge with some oddments, but you don't notice her until 15 turns have passed.
• Butterflies may carry the traveller away.
• You may hear birds in the meadow.
• You may glimpse a rabbit, maybe, in the forest?

Mentioned:

• Unnamed people you knew are sometimes refered to when you consider your burdens.

Credits

The response to ABOUT is:

Baggage was created by me, Katherine Farmar, with beta testing by Johanna Heikkinen, Diarmuid O'Brien, and Deirdre Sullivan. Any errors or flaws are the author's. Baggage was initially begun in 2017, dropped for a long time, then re-started in late 2020 to be finished for the 2021 Spring Thing competition. It is my first completed work of interactive fiction.

Endings

• I saw a man pursuing the horizon;
  Round and round they sped.
  I was disturbed at this;
  I accosted the man.
  "It is futile," I said,
  "You can never -
  
  "You lie," he cried,
  And ran on.
  (Stephen Crane)
• if you persist in futilely going north for many turns, and you have not found a way to leave the road.
• You feel light and a little giddy, a great weight taken from your shoulders, energy flooding you as if a dam inside your heart had burst. You can go anywhere, you realise. You can reach all sorts of wonderful places. The road is not your prison any more.
  
  You set out down the hill with a skip in your step and a song on your lips.
• if, in the western meadow, you look or go west.
• A little frisson runs up and down your spine, and for the first time in -- in --
  
  (you don't even remember how long)
  
  -- you feel alive, really and truly alive, as if your life is unwritten, as if everything lies before you.
  
  You dart between the trees, chasing the shadow of a rabbit, delighting in all you can see and hear and feel and smell. Where are you going? You don't know -- but where you are is a place worth being.
  
  This is what life is meant to be.
• if, in the eastern forest, you look or go east.
• Are you ready to change?
  Says the thought to the heart, to let her pass
  All your life long
  
  For the unknown, the unborn
  In the alchemy
  Of the world's dream?
  
  You will change,
  says the stars to the sun,
  Says the night to the stars.
  
  (Kathleen Raine)
• To be determined: I did get this ending once, but I can't figure out what caused it. Somehow, the satchel strap breaks and you fall, but I can't figure out why.

Inventory

• a satchel. You're carrying it.
• It contains a hope, a belief, a regret, a memory, a fear, and a resentment.
• You should keep the satchel. You will not be allowed to drop the satchel if there's anything it.
• a hope. It's in your satchel.
• If you show the hope to the woman, it seems more like a delusion, but it remains a hope.
• Change hope into a lantern.
• a belief. It's in your satchel.
• Change belief into a map.
• a regret. It's in your satchel.
• Change regret into a rope.
• a memory. It's in your satchel.
• Change memory into goggles.
• a fear. It's in your satchel.
• Change fear into gardening gloves.
• a resentment. It's in your satchel.
• Change resentment into a machete.
• some faded moments. Acquire them by trying to take the oddments twice.
• You can't change the moments, but the woman can.
• Give the moments to the woman, then tell her to change moments. The moments become butterflies that carry her away.
• a lantern. Acquire it by changing a hope.
• If you have the lantern, rope, and map, you can now go east into the eastern forest.
• a length of rope. Acquire it by changing a regret.
• If you have the lantern, rope, and map, you can now go east into the eastern forest.
• CAUTION: If you return to the road from the forest, you won't be able to return that way because you won't have the rope anymore.
• a map. Acquire it by changing a belief.
• If you have the lantern, rope, and map, you can now go east into the eastern forest.
• a pair of protective gloves. Acquire them by changing a fear.
• DO NOT put the gloves on. The cut bramble command won't work if both the gloves and goggles are on.
• If you have the gloves, goggles, and machete, you can cut bramble, then go west into the western meadow.
• a pair of sturdy goggles. Acquire them by changing a memory.
• DO NOT put the goggles on. The cut bramble command won't work if both the gloves and goggles are on.
• If you have the gloves, goggles, and machete, you can cut bramble, then go west into the western meadow.
• a machete. Acquire it by changing a resentment.
• If you have the gloves, goggles, and machete, you can cut bramble, then go west into the western meadow.

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