Key & Compass presents:
Caribbean Treasure
by Garry Francis

• Map
• Walkthrough
• Extras
  • Characters, Credits, Inventory, XYZZY
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Map

Walkthrough

Tropical Beach

> x me. i. (empty-handed)

> x footprints.

> w. u.

Deck of Yacht

Note: Your scuba gear is missing.

> d.

Cabin of Yacht

> x objects. take glasses. x glasses. (not yours)

> wear glasses. (ugh, like magnifying lenses)

> u. e. e. s.

Group of Jagged Rocks

> x plank. take it. (hook revealed)

> x hook. take it.

> drop plank. (You don't need it.)

> e.

Foot of Cliff

> x anchor. dig anchor. (rope found)

> x rope. take rope. tie rope to hook.

> x cave. (sea cave)

If you try going in, you learn the cave is dark. Backtrack to the beach:

> w. n.

Tropical Beach

Now take a tour of the vegetation filled corner of the island.

> n. w.

Headland

> x bay. n.

Ocean Beach

> x tracks. x vegetation. x surf.

> e. n. e.

Outside Dark Cave

> x cave. (dark as advertised)

Time to visit some higher ground:

> w. s. e.

Bottom of Hill

> x hill. x insects.

> e.

Steep Slope

> x stone. take it.

> u.

Top of Cliff

> x view. x cliff. x sea.

> jump. (no: not without a good reason)

Let's see what's east of the "Tropical Vegetation" location next.

> d. w. w. s. e.

Foot of High Palisade

You did tie the rope to the hook earlier, yes?

> x palisade.

> throw hook at palisade. (success)

> climb rope. e.

Inside Small Cave

> x chest. open it. (no: padlock)

> x padlock. break it. (using the stone)

> open chest. x lantern. take it.

Return to the sea cave where you saw an anchor.

> w. climb rope. w. s. s. e.

Foot of Cliff

> light lantern with glasses.

> e.

Inside Sea Cave

> x pirate. x clothes. take clothes.

> x pools.

> z. (Repeat waiting. Eventually the sea level rises abruptly and you float to...)

Near Ceiling of Cave

> x ceiling. (cavity found)

> x cavity.

> reach in cavity. (parchment found)

> take parchment.

The water starts to recede.

> z.

Inside Sea Cave

> w.

Foot of Cliff

> x parchment. read it. (It's a map.)

> w. n. n. n. n. e.

Outside Dark Cave

I assume the lantern is still lit. If not, light it again with the glasses.

> n.

Inside Dark Cave

> x man. x gear. x flippers. x mattress. x firepit.

> talk to man.

> ask man about himself.

> ask man about scuba.

> ask man about flippers.

> ask man about treasure.

> ask man about pirate.

> ask man about ghosts.

> ask man about fire.

> s.

Outside Dark Cave

> wear clothes. n.

Inside Dark Cave

The castaway is spooked and runs away.

> take all. s.

Outside Dark Cave

> blow out lantern.

Return to the top of the cliff.

> w. s. e. e. u.

Top of Cliff

> remove clothes.

> wear flippers. wear scuba.

> drop all.

You only need the scuba gear and flippers on here, but you must also have read the parchment earlier.

> jump.

Ocean at Foot of Cliff

> d.

Deep Below Water

> x light. x wreck. x bed.

> enter wreck —or— in.

Shipwreck

> x encrustations. x fish.

> x treasure. take it.

*** You have won ***

Extras

Characters

• A bearded man, also called the castaway, is dirty, smelly, dressed in rags, and hides inside the dark cave that is his home. He's the only real NPC in this game.
• Some insects are at the bottom of the hill. Their threat of malaria can (probably) be ignored.
• Some tropical fish flee from you when you're in the shipwreck.

Found dead:

• A skeleton wearing pirate clothes is in the sea cave. Hard to believe, but the skeleton is better dressed than the castaway is.

Credits

This is the response to ABOUT:

This game is an adaptation of the Italian adventure 'Alan Simmons: Bucaneer' by Bonaventura Di Bello. It was originally written using The Quill and Illustrator and published by Edizioni Hobby S.r.l. on the cover tape of 'Viking', no. 8, September 1987 for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64.

The data was extracted from the C64 version using UnQuill, translated to English and rewritten for a modern audience with the original author's permission. The new version includes many enhancements that weren't in the original. The coding was done using Inform 6 and the PunyInform library.

Original concept, game design and coding by Bonaventura Di Bello.
English translation, game redesign and coding by Garry Francis.
Play testing by Adam Faiz, AM Ruf, Charles Moore Jr, Gianluca Girelli, Jade J Aincioa, Pablo Maria Martinez Merino and Robert Eggleston.
Special thanks to Gianluca Girelli for ideas and feedback during the redesign.

Inventory

• a pair of glasses. Find them by examining the objects in your yacht's cabin.
• Wear them to learn they're like magnifying lenses.
• When outside, light the lantern with the glasses. You focus the sun's rays onto the lantern's wick.
• a stone. It's on the steep slope.
• In the small cave, break the padlock with the stone.
• a wooden plank. It's on the group of jagged rocks.
• Take the plank to find the hook that's underneath, but drop the plank afterwards. You need the hook, but not the plank.
• a metal hook. Find it at the group of jagged rocks by taking the wooden plank.
• Tie the rope to the hook.
• a rope. Find it at the foot of a cliff by trying to dig the anchor (out of the sand).
• Tie the rope to the hook: it's now a rope with a hook attached.
• At the foot of a high palisade, throw the hook at the palisade. Now you can climb the rope to get to the other side and back again.
• a rusty padlock. It's locked onto the chest inside the small cave east of the palisade. Break the padlock with the stone.
• You don't need the padlock.
• an old lantern. It's inside the chest inside the small cave east of the palisade; break the chest's padlock with the stone.
• When outside, light the lantern with the glasses (by focusing sunlight on the lantern's wick). Use the lantern's light to be able to see in the dark cave and in the sea cave.
• When you've not in a cave, you probably want to blow out the lantern to save fuel, but fuel scarcity is unlikely to be an issue in this game.
• Drop the lantern before jumping off the cliff. You are unwilling to jump into the ocean with the lantern because that would likely ruin it.
• some pirate's clothes. It's on the skeleton inside the sea cave.
• After determining that the castaway is afraid of pirate ghosts, leave his cave and wear the clothes before re-entering. Now the castaway thinks you're a ghost and runs away. Arrr!
• a goat-skin parchment. It's in a cavity near the ceiling of the sea cave. Wait for the water to rise to float you within reach, then reach into the cavity to pull out the parchment. Take it.
• Read the parchment to learn that the treasure is somewhere in the ocean east of the island.
• your scuba gear and a pair of flippers. They're both in the dark cave, guarded by and stolen by the bearded man.
• After reading the parchment, go to the top of the cliff, wear the gear and flippers, drop everything else, then jump. Now you can get to the sunken treasure in the wreck.
• Note you cannot walk about the island with the flippers on.

XYZZY

This is the response to XYZZY, PLUGH, PLOVER, or YOHO:

The ghost of a drunken pirate appears singing,
"Fifteen men on the dead man's chest.
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
Drink and the devil had done for the rest.
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!"

He then fades away. How strange...

Thank You to my Patreon supporters

This walkthrough was funded via Patreon with

• the support of Robin Johnson, Ville Lavonius, Andrew Schultz, Kenneth Hon, Carl Muckenhoupt, Mark Musante, Phil Tatro, and Daniel Stelzer;
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