Key & Compass presents:
Captain Piedaterre's Blunders
by Wade Clarke

• Map
• Walkthrough
• Extras
  • Characters, Credits, Inventory, Score
• Thank You to my Patreon supporters
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Map

Walkthrough

At Sea

> SPACE

Pirate's Porch

You determine that the pirate isn't home.

> C (about yourself)

> SPACE

> 1 (go in)

After this point, there's a random element (Pollyanna), so I can't reliably tell you which numbers to type. Instead, I'll have to tell you the text of the link to click.

Smuggly Dining Room

> Get the sloppy black banana (+1)

> Head north to the bedroom

Pirate's Bedroom

Ignore the chamber pot; it's too heavy to take anywhere.

> Get the broken clock (+1)

> Return to the dining room (south)

Smuggy Dining Room

> Go south to the rumpus room

Rumpus Room

Ignore the egg, you don't want it.

> Get the splintered chair leg (+1)

> Go south to the worship room

Worship Room

You don't want the mask, but it hides an idol you do want.

> Get the golden mask studded with emeralds

> Get the African fertility idol (+1)

> Go north back to the rumpus room

> Go north to the dining room

> Enter the kitchen to the east

Smuggly Kitchen

> Open the chest (hmm, stubborn)

> Pull it (it opens)

> Get the tea cup (+1)

> Try the ramshackle door

Creepy Closet

Ignore the diamond.

> Get the grey dust bunny (+1)

> Go back through the door (north)

> Return to the dining room, to the west

Smuggly Dining Room

I've left Pollyanna for last. Hopefully, Pollyanna is here and stays here long enough for you to get her biscuit. If she's not here, you can't just wait. You'll have to go find her. Fortunately, she never flies more than one room away from the dining room.

> Examine Pollyanna

> Take the biscuit off the bird's collar (+1)

You leave the house.

> SPACE

Riviera (Two weeks later)

*** The One And Only End ***

> SPACE

> 4 (quit)

> YES

Extras

Characters

• Pollyanna, a parrot, flies between rooms. She may call you a thief, but she doesn't try to stop you.
• Your brother assesses your haul in the epilogue.
• The pirate that owns the driftwood house is not at home. Possibly the pirate is the former lackey that your brother mentions dressed up the fertility idol.

Credits

To see the credits, type M for Menu, then 3 for "Read the credits":

Captain Piedaterre's Blunders
An interactive doddle by Wade Clarke
Release 1 / Serial number 171216 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib 6/12N)
CYOA Framework by Wade Clarke

Captain Piedaterre's Blunders exploits and extends upon intellectual property created by Ryan 'The Veeder' Veeder in his 2013 IF Captain Verdeterre's Plunder (http://rcveeder.net/if/verdeterre.html). It does so with his approval. "I declare this to be canon!" said Ryan in an email dated February 2nd, 2016, though he didn't use an exclamation mark.

Visit Wade's sites, including but not limited to: wadeclarke.com, heiresssoftware.com

Inventory

To see your inventory in this game, you'll have to click the link or type the number associated with the phrase Check what you're carrying.

• a sack for stowing stolen stuff. You're carrying it. You'll automatically put your treasures into it.
• a sloppy black banana. This treasure is in the dining room.
• a broken clock. This treasure is in the pirate's bedroom.
• a splintered chair leg. This treasure is in the rumpus room.
• an African fertility idol. This treasure is hiding behind the mask in the worship room. So take (and discard) the mask, then take the idol.
• a tea cup. This treasure is in the tea chest in the kitchen. Pull the chest to open the chest.
• a grey dust bunny. This treasure is in the creepy closet.
• a biscuit. This treasure is on Pollyanna's collar. First examine Pollyanna to notice the biscuit in the first place. Then take the biscuit. This is complicated only because she likes to fly to different rooms quite often. Follow her as best you can until you can examine her and take her biscuit.
• a huge chamber pot. It's in the pirate's bedroom and you should leave it alone. It is not a treasure. If you try to take it, you learn it's far too heavy. While you carry it, you cannot take anything else and you can't leave the room with it either.

Score

There's no SCORE command, but your score is displayed in the status bar. The maximum score is 7 points.

• 1 point for taking the sloppy black banana.
• 1 point for taking the broken clock.
• 1 point for taking the splintered chair leg.
• 1 point for taking the African fertility idol.
• 1 point for taking the tea cup.
• 1 point for taking the grey dust bunny.
• 1 point for taking the biscuit.

Thank You to my Patreon supporters

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