Key & Compass presents:
A Christmas Quest
by Richard Pettigrew

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

Note that locations in this game don't have official short names, so I had to decide on the naming scheme myself.

Walkthrough

Outside Home

> x door. x snowman. x pot.

> take pot. take key. unlock door. open door.

> throw pot. drop key.

> e.

Spacious Hallway

> x table. take note. read it. drop it.

> u.

Claus' Bedroom

> x bed. search bed.

> take magazine. read it. drop it.

> e.

Claus' Bathroom

> x bath. x toilet. x log. flush toilet. x basin.

> w. d. n.

Kitchen

> x cooker. x cupboard. open it.

> x extinguisher. take it. x glove.

> x oven. open oven. x pan.

> x plug hole. x sink. x sprout.

> s. e.

Living Room

> x fireplace. use extinguisher. drop it.

> x sofa. x tree. search tree. x bauble.

> x pie. smell it. take it. eat it.

> u.

Inside Chimney

> x ledge. x present. take it.

> d. w. n. e. e.

Stable

> x reindeer. (He's hungry.)

> x saddle.

> s.

Stable Storage Room

> x racking. x rod. take it.

> x bait. take it. bait rod.

> x milk. take it. read label.

> x bottle. take it.

> n. w. w. s. w. n.

North Pole

> x hole. x fish. x pole. x sign.

> catch fish. x fish. drop rod.

> s. e. n. e. s.

Elves' Workshop

> x catapult. take it.

> x lockpick. take it.

> e.

Elves' Quarters

> x hammock. search it. x ball. take it.

> w. s.

Santa's Office

> x chair. x desk. open drawer.

> x spoon. take it.

> x shelf. load catapult. (with ball)

> fire catapult. drop it.

> x tin. take it.

> unlock tin. (with lockpick)

> x tin. x dust. read dust. drop tin.

> n. n. w.

Kitchen

Time to make up some milk formula with magic flying dust added in!

> take pan. turn tap. fill pan. turn tap.

> turn cooker on. put pan on cooker.

> make milk. (using powder, dust, and spoon)

> open bottle. take glove. wear glove.

> take pan. fill bottle. drop pan. drop spoon.

Oddly, the arctic cold outside isn't how you cool the bottle down.

> turn tap. cool bottle. turn tap.

> remove glove. drop glove.

> e. e.

Stable

> feed reindeer. take saddle.

> saddle reindeer. pet him.

> ride reindeer.

You and Alexander find Santa, and you give him the present.

*** Well done, you saved Christmas! ***

Extras

Artwork

This game has a title screen and artwork for each location in the game. These are thumbnails of two of the locations. Please play the game to view the artwork in its intended sizes.

Characters

• A baby reindeer named Alexander is in the stable.
• Some fish are swimming in the hole below the ice at the north pole.
• Santa Claus is already delivering presents this Christmas night. You catch up with him in the epilogue.

Mentioned:

• Mrs Claus and the other elves are already on vacation on Christmas Island.

Credits

This is the response to CREDITS:

Credits / About 'A Christmas Quest'.

A Christmas Quest was authored by Richard Pettigrew for entry into the '2020 Adventuron Christmas Game Jam'. It is a browser based adventure game. It has been written to mimic the popular style of text based games from the 1970s through to the mid-1980's. The tool used to create this game is named Adventuron. Adventuron is the brain child of Chris Ainsley and is available for use at:

https://adventuron.io

I'd like to take the opportunity to thank Chris for developing Adventuron and for all the assistance and advice he has given me throughout the authoring of this game.

Press any key to return to the adventure.

Inventory

Items are listed in the order you encounter them in this walkthrough. You have a carrying capacity limit of nine items, so don't bother taking useless items.

• A Plant Pot. It's outside the home.
• Take or search the pot to find the key.
• Optionally, you can throw the pot to create pottery shards, but why would you do that?
• A Key. Find it by taking or searching the plant pot.
• The key unlocks the home's front door.
• Pottery Shards. Create them by throwing the plant pot.
• You have no use for these shards.
• A Note. It's on the table in the spacious hallway.
• Read it. Santa wants you to find the missing present and bring it to him.
• A Magazine. Find it by searching the bed in the Claus' bedroom.
• You can take it and read it, but it won't help you.
• An Extinguisher. It's inside the kitchen cupboard.
• Use it in the living room to put out the fire. Now you can go up the chimney!
• An Oven Glove. It's inside the kitchen cupboard.
• Wear it when you need to pick up the hot pan of milk.
• A Pan. It's in the oven in the kitchen.
• First, fill the pan with water from the tap. The pan is now full of cold water.
• Turn on the cooker, and put the pan on it. The pan is now full of hot water.
• Make milk. You need to be carrying the milk powder, packet of "magic flying dust", and the spoon for this step. Now the pan is full of hot milk.
• Wear the oven glove and take the hot pan.
• Open the bottle and fill it with hot milk. You're now done with the pan.
• A Sprout. Find it by examining the kitchen sink.
• You have no use for the sprout.
• A Mince Pie. It's in the living room.
• Eat it if you want to. It's yummy!
• A Bauble. Find it by searching the tree in the living room.
• You have no use for the bauble.
• A Present. Find it by examining the ledge inside the chimney.
• After putting the saddle on the baby reindeer, take the present to Santa by riding the reindeer.
• A Saddle. It's in the stable.
• In the stable, after feeding the reindeer with the milk (eee bottle), put the saddle on the reindeer.
• While carrying the present, ride the saddled reindeer to deliver the present to Santa and win the game.
• A Fishing Rod. It's in the stable storage room.
• You can bait the rod with the bait, then fish at the North Pole to catch a fish, but you don't need a fish.
• Fishing Bait. Find it by examining the racking in the stable storage room.
• You can bait the fishing rod with the bait.
• A Feeding Bottle. Find it by examining the racking in the stable storage room.
• When the pan is full of hot milk, open the bottle and fill it. You'll automatically close the bottle.
• Cool the bottle by holding it under a running tap. The tap in the kitchen is the most convenient, but the bathroom tap works too.
• In the stable, feed the baby reindeer wth the cooled milk. The bottle will quietly disappear.
• Milk Powder. Find it by examining the racking in the stable storage room.
• You need milk powder when making milk; see pan.
• A Fish. Catch it by using the fishing rod, baited with the bait, at the North Pole.
• You don't need a fish. It's a red herring.
• A Catapult. It's in the elves' workshop.
• In Santa's office, load the catapult with the ball, then fire the catapult to knock the tin off the high shelf.
• A Lockpick. It's in the elves' workshop.
• It unlocks the tin. The lockpick is lost afterwards.
• A Ball. Find it by searching your hammock in the elves' quarters.
• Load the catapult with the ball.
• A Spoon. It's inside the desk drawer in Santa's office.
• You need the spoon when making milk; see pan.
• Tin. It's on the high shelf in Santa's office.
• In Santa's office, load the catapult with the ball, then fire the catapult to knock the tin off the high shelf.
• Unlock the tin with the lockpick.
• Examine the open tin to find the packet of "magic flying dust" that's inside.
• A Packet Of "Magic Flying Dust". It's in the tin.
• You need it when making milk; see pan.

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