Bigger Than You Think - Map and Walkthrough

Key & Compass presents:
Bigger Than You Think
by Andrew Plotkin

This map is by David Welbourn and is based on Release 4 of the game. Note that locations are not explicitly named by the story, so I've had to invent them.

(Also, and this is not a complaint, but I disagree with the game's title. I found the game to be pretty much as big as I thought it would be.)

Map

Follow
woman?

follow→

Inside Temple ⏎
(Atalantë)

approach; ↑sign

Runes ⏎
(Uabar)

Scholarly
Career ⏎

Queen's
Square

down→

Fireworks Stall ⏎
(flare, smoke)

↑Runes

↑square

↑Atalantë

Towers

shoes;
←towers

Well
(key)

←Uabar

Root
Chamber

Pool ⏎
(coin)

water→

Frozen! ⏎

↑climbing

↑side

Up the
Shaft

passage→

Tall
Chamber

ahead→

Crystals
& Trees
(umbrella)

↑upwards

rope; ↓pit

↓forest

Living
Space ⏎
(shoes)

start→

Chimney
Lip

Outside
Metal Hatch

Forest

move→

Surrounded
⏎

key; ↑open

↓downwards

crowbar; ↓descend

smoke; ↓run

Marble Door

←canyon

Down the
Chimney
(crowbar)

Crystal Runes ⏎
(egg)

Glade ⏎
(crystal)

↓left

↓right

↓climbing

Bottom of
Sinkhole
(rope)

Eaten! ⏎

←turn
←flee

Hiss!

Plunging
down

egg; ↓climb

flare; ↓run

↓umbrella

Gold Coins ⏎
(coin)

Saucer
Hull

Tablets ⏎
(sign)

touch; ↓word

Inside
Saucer

↓crystal

The story
is over

NOTE: Blue areas represent Atalantë; pink areas represent Uabar. These regions are set in the ancient past, and the PCs in Atalantë and Uabar are not the same person as the main PC (Marco Polo) who's exploring the underground caverns.

Walkthrough

Opening notes:

Don't use undo. Really. This is one game where undo isn't helpful at all.

The status line is maintained to list all necessary active commands.

Most of the standard commands are disabled, including quit (except at the very end). To actually quit when playing offline, you will have to close your interpreter -- or win, then use quit.

Look will redisplay the currrent situation, if necessary.

Restart means the same as start, which starts a new iteration of the story. However, this does not completely reset the game world; see below.

Unused inventory items stay with your character even when you restart the story. When you (successfully) use an inventory item, that usage is incorporated into future iterations of the story. If you break the egg in the wrong location, the story will restore it at the beginning of the next iteration.

An autosave feature means you'll never need to explicitly save the game. However, if you really do want to start over from the very very beginning, you'll need to delete the BTYTSAVE file, created in the same directory as your story file.

Walkthrough proper:

Get the key from ancient Uabar.

> upwards. climbing. Uabar. key. square. start.

Get the crowbar, unlock the marble door and get the snakeskin shoes.

> downwards. crowbar. canyon. carvings. open. key. shoes. start.

Learn Uabar runes.

> upwards. climbing. Uabar. towers. shoes. Runes. start.

Buy flare and smoke from ancient Atalantë

> upwards. climbing. Atalantë. down. flare. smoke. start.

Get umbrella and black crystal.

> upwards. passage. ahead. umbrella. forest. smoke. run. crystal. start.

Learn a sign you can make with your hands.

> downwards. climbing. umbrella. tablets. start.

Learn Atalantë runes.

> upwards. climbing. Atalantë. approach. sign. follow. start.

Get some rope.

> downwards. canyon. left. rope. climb. start.

Translate crystal runes and find an egg.

> upwards. passage. rope. crowbar. history. descend. Uabar. Atalantë. egg. start.

Get a coin.

> downwards. canyon. left. egg. climb. coin. start.

Learn a word from a fish?

> upwards. passage. side. inscriptions. coin. start.

Run past a grue, enter a buried flying saucer, and end the story!

>downwards. canyon. right. flare. run. touch. word. crystal.

*** The story is over ***

Key & Compass presents: Bigger Than You Think by Andrew Plotkin

Map

Walkthrough

Opening notes:

Walkthrough proper:

Key & Compass presents:
Bigger Than You Think
by Andrew Plotkin