Key & Compass presents:
Bored Ladders
by "Taleslinger"

• Walkthrough
• Extras
  • Characters
  • Endings
  • Inventory
  • Score
• Thank You to my Patreon supporters
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Walkthrough

Edge of Forest

It's not obvious to me exactly what triggers Jim finding the path. Do whatever you want for however many turns it takes.

> i. (You have nothing.)

> x Jim.

> ask jim about tomb. ask jim about braintree. ask jim about kevin.

You follow Jim down the path where he explodes.

Vacuum Trap!!!

> e.

Tomb of the Unknown Tool, also known as Grave of the nameless Idiot

> d.

Chicken Room

The reference to "Monathan Mlask" is a swipe at the author's IF rival, Jonathan Blask.

> x corpse. x door. x chicken.

> se. (The door is locked.)

> smell door.

> u. w. (+1)

Vacuum Trap!!!

The chicken, which followed you, implodes in the trap.

> look. take key. x key.

> e. d.

Chicken Room

> unlock door with key. se.

Treasure Room

CAUTION: The typewriter is typing a countdown to self-detonation! And you can't run away from the countdown once it begins!

> x typewriter. take typewriter.

> sw.

Observatory

> climb ladders. (+1)

Pluto

> drop typewriter. (+1)

*** You won! ***

Extras

Characters

• Kevin is one of your people mentioned in the prologue. I don't know why he's not in the rest of the game.
• Jim is one of your people. Shame he explodes.
• A Chicken with Hands! is in the Chicken Room.
• The Ladders of Mercury are in the observatory and they are so bored.
• The Braintree is the evil enemy of your people. It has a Space Claw.
• Space Birds rescue you from the nothingness of Space.
• The silk weaver's daughter is someone I think you like!

Endings

• See you then. if you go nne at the Edge of the Forest.
• You died. Consider this a bad ending. if you try to kill the chicken directly.
• KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM! if the typewriter explodes without being dropped on Pluto.
• You won! if you drop the typewriter on Pluto.

Inventory

• key: a wrapper key. Held by the Chicken with Hands! Get it by leading the chicken to its doom in the vacuum trap. The key unlocks the bubble gum door in the Chicken Room.
• typewriter: a 100 years old typewriter. It's the Unknown Tool and in the Treasure Room. It's also full of dynamite and about to explode. Drop it on Pluto to defeat the Braintree's Space Claw.

Score

You have so far scored this-much out of a possible 3, in several turns.

• 1 point for imploding the Chicken with Hands! with the vacuum trap.
• 1 point for reaching Pluto.
• 1 point for destroying the Braintree's Space Claw.

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