Key & Compass presents:
Buccaneer's Cache
by Wilfried Elmenreich

In this small game, you wake up in a pub's broom closet. If you can survive getting past the beast in the pub, try to find the three geocaches hidden around town and make your fortune!

This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on Release 2 of the game.

SPOILERS AHEAD. Reading a walkthrough prematurely can sometimes diminish one's enjoyment of an interactive fiction game. Please make an honest effort to play the game before reading this walkthrough.

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Walkthrough
Extras
- Characters, Endings, Inventory, Score
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Map

Walkthrough

Important!

The only way to know that a bugblatter beast is in the pub is by going there unprepared. Unfortunately, that also means certain death. Learning-by-death was much more common in old-school games.
If you don't know what a bugblatter beast is, the game makes no effort to educate you. It's from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. What you need to know: if you can't see the bugblatter beast, then it can't see you either.
There are three geocache logbooks in the game, but you can't refer to them as "logbook" or "book" or anything else at all. Perhaps if you knew all about geocache jargon, you'd know to LOG CACHE whenever you saw one, but I certainly didn't know. Specialized lore or commands should be spelled out explicitly to the player.
At the end of the game, you must include an adverb in your command. Few interactive fiction games require adverbs in player inputs ever, and it's unfair not to tell the player in advance that's a possibility.

Broom Closet

> take note. read it. ("know where you towel is")

> open door. e.

Pub

The beast asks for your name.

> ANY-RESPONSE.

*** You have died ***

> restart

Broom Closet

Now that you know a bugblatter beast is out there, you must make sure he doesn't see you.

> take knife.

> take pile. (You get a rag.)

> x rag. wear rag.

> open door. e. e.

Darkness / The Balcony

> remove rag. (+15)

You're unwilling to go back inside while the beast is in there.

> x railing.

> search railing. x cache. open it.

> log cache. (+10) close cache.

> x pipe. climb pipe.

Roof

> x pipe. x gutter.

> x window. open window with knife.

> enter window —or— w.

The Attic

> x book. (A pirate hid three caches in this town.)

> x painting.

Moving or searching the painting doesn't help, but...

> open painting. (There's a tunnel behind it.)

> enter tunnel. (This is a one-way trip.)

Inside the well

> x well. search well. climb well.

Town Center

> n.

Uptown

> x house. x barrel.

> look in barrel. open cache.

> log cache. (+10) close cache.

> s. e.

Pathway

> x cobblestone. search it. open cache.

> log cache. (+10) close cache.

> n.

Main Entrance

If you open the door and walk in unblindfolded, the beast will kill you. But blindfolded, you can return to the broom closet or balcony, if you needed to.

> s. w. s.

Port

> x ship. board ship. ("are you really sure?")

Instead of saying YES like in a normal game, you must modify your command with 'really' or 'for sure':

> board ship really.

*** You have won ***

I'm missing 5 points. If you know where the missing points are, please let me know!

Extras

Characters

A bugblatter beast is in the pub. It eats you if it sees you!

Mentioned:

Dave Ulmenbeard is a pirate who hid three geocaches in town.

Endings

You have died

if you see the beast in the pub. He asks for your name, but no matter how you answer, he eats you.

You have won

if you board ship really.

Inventory

a knife. It's in the broom closet.

On the roof, open the window with the knife.

a note. It's in the broom closet.

Take it and read it. It's a reference to Hitchhiker's.

a pile of fabric. It's in the broom closet.

You're probably not supposed to take the entire pile, but it seems to be the only way to get the rag.

a dirty rag. Acquire it by taking the pile of fabric in the broom closet.

Wear it (as a blindfold) before leaving the broom closet. Go east twice, then remove it. If you did it right, you walk past the beast unseen and you're now on the balcony.

Score

This is the response to SCORE:

You have so far scored your-score out of a possible 50, in several turns.

Points are awarded as follows:

15 points for visiting various places. (15 for The Balcony)
30 points for performing noteworthy actions. (10 each for logging a cache)
5 points for TO BE DETERMINED.

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Key & Compass presents: Buccaneer's Cache by Wilfried Elmenreich

Map

Walkthrough

Extras

Characters

Endings

Inventory

Score

Thank You to my Patreon supporters

Key & Compass presents:
Buccaneer's Cache
by Wilfried Elmenreich