Key & Compass presents:
A Beginning
by Johnicholas Hines

A Beginning is a Z-machine interactive fiction story written with Inform 6 and is © 2004 by Johnicholas Hines (as Anonymous). It was a participant in the Speed-IF >= 20 event. Only the source code was submitted, so you may need to compile the story file yourself in order to play it.

In this very short story based on the Biblical story of the Garden of Eden, you play as someone enjoying the newly-created land. You also find your growing belly particularly wonderful.

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

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Walkthrough
Extras
- Characters, Inventory
Thank You to my Patreon supporters
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Walkthrough

Rocky Earth

> x rocky. w. x belly. x moving. e.

Green and Growing Earth

Note: You will be prompted to "call Him" six turns after eating the round thing. You must pray here to summon Him.

> x flowing. x tree. x round. take it.

> eat round. pray.

*** You have won ***

Extras

Characters

He is the one shaping and changing the newly-created land. He helps you at game's end.
A moving crashing thing, ancient, dark and greenish, tries to splash you. This is probably the ocean, but the protagonist seems to regard it as a living creature.
Eve is a new person delivered from your body at game's end.

Note: The protagonist is never named, but must be Adam from the Biblical story.

Inventory

a small round thing. It's growing on the tree at Green and Growing Earth. It may be an apple? Take it and eat it.

Honorable mention:

your belly. It's part of you, and you've been delighted at how it's been growing. But when you eat the round thing, your belly will cramp painfully until you call Him by praying.

Thank You to my Patreon supporters

This walkthrough is provided free of charge since I wrote this walkthrough prior to January 2015 when I began my Patreon account. I've since reformatted this walkthrough to use my currently preferred style. I hope you enjoy it!

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