Key & Compass presents:
The Damp Camp
by James Dean and Jarvist Frost

• Map
• Walkthrough
• Extras
  • Characters
  • Inventory
  • Score
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Map

• "xyzzy" from either "lost in the grass" or "huge fireball" puts you back inside the Dome Tent.
• The huge fireball only affects you and not anyone else or anything else in the location you farted in.
• Incidentally, if you fart then light match when you're inside your Dome Tent, instead of getting trapped in a huge fireball, you're blown to In the Tree.

Walkthrough

Camp site, in the Dome Tent

> x me. i. (Nothing.)

> credits. verbose. (The credits inform us that two 14 year-olds wrote this game.)

> x tent. x karrimat. x poles. out.

Camp site

> x tree. x barbeque. x charcoal.

> x mole hills. x dustbin. (Oo. Heavy hint to TELL JEFF ABOUT DUSTBIN.)

> climb tree.

In the Tree

> x match. take it. (+1)

> d. s.

Tom's site

You can enter Tom's tent, but there's no need to.

> x tent. x note. take it. (+1)

> n. e.

Field

CAUTION: Don't give the match to Anthony; he'll light the long grass, killing you both.

CAUTION: If you go east from here, you'll be "lost in the grass"; the only way to escape the grass is with the XYZZY command.

> x anthony. (I didn't find Anthony to be talkative.)

> w. w.

Jeff's Office

> x jeff. x photographs. x desk. x crests. x chair

> ask jeff about jeff. ask jeff about grass.

> ask jeff about photographs. ask jeff about crests.

> ask jeff about tree. ask jeff about desk.

> tell jeff about dustbin. (+2; You see a Serco helicopter empty the bin but drop something as well.)

> x phone. ask jeff about phone. (Note: To use the phone: TYPE number ON KEYPAD.)'

> take phone.

> e.

Camp site

> take newspaper. read it. (The ad for gardener services seems useful.)

> type 369150 on keypad. (The gardener says he'll show up in the helicopter. Does everyone have a helicopter?)

> z. z. z. z. z. (+1)

The grass is cut. Anthony is killed. And the pilot takes your money before flying away.

Interestingly, you won't die if you're up in the tree when it gets clipped (although it's a close call), but you will die if you're with Anthony in the Field when he dies, or if you're "lost in the grass" at that time.

Also, I note that you can't inform Jeff about the cut grass or Anthony's death. Even showing the body parts to Jeff provokes no reaction.

> x arm. e.

Field

> x gut. e.

second site

> x camper. e. (Camper is hungry and blocks your way.)

Around this time, you vomit. You will be vomitting every few turns, I'm sorry to say.

> w.

Field

> take gut. w.

Camp site

> take arm. climb tree.

In the Tree

> x leg. take leg. d.

Camp Site

This is gross, but it's a gross sort of game.

> put arm on bbq. put leg on bbq. put gut on bbq.

> light bbq. take arm. take leg. take gut.

> e. e.

second site

The camper won't eat the body parts unless they're cooked. Unfortunately, examining them won't tell you if they're cooked or not.

> give arm to camper. (He eats it.)

> give leg to camper. (He eats it.)

> give gut to camper. (He eats it; +2 now that he's full.)

The camper goes inside his tent.

> x tent. e. n.

Car Park

Your father greets you and you leave the camp in his car.

*** Well done, you've won! ***

> amusements

Most of the amusements are suggestions like spitting, shitting, peeing, farting, lighting a match after you fart, and eating your puke. Peeing can only be done at the tree. If you end up inside a fireball, you can escape it before you die with the XYZZY command. This is clued by reading the patterns on the fireball.

I note there is also a JOKES command that hints at a LEWD command, but unfortunately, LEWD results in a TADS-1003 error. TAME confirms you're in Tame mode, so no sex jokes for us. I think we can assume the authors enjoyed Infocom's Leather Goddesses of Phobos.

Extras

Characters

• Anthony is in the Field. You can give him things. Shame he gets killed by the gardener's helicopter.
• Jeff is the camp manager. He's in Jeff's Office. You can ask him about stuff, but do tell him about the dustbin.
• A gardener who you call to cut the grass. Most gardeners don't have a helicopter with rotating blades underneath, but this one does.
• A camper, who is also a raving lunatic, is at the second site. He's very hungry and wants lots of meat. Cooked, though.
• Your father appears briefly at game's end in the Car Park to drive you away.

Also mentioned by the game:

• Jarvist owns the indelible match. Where Jarvist is, I don't know.
• Tom has a tent south of yours. I also don't know where Tom is.
• A lazy gardener is mentioned by Jeff when you ask him about the grass. I believe this is a different gardener than the one we call.
• Jeff's mom is mentioned by Jeff when you ask him about the photographs.

Inventory

• £20 Note. Found in Tom's Tent at Tom's site. You'll need it to pay the gardener.
• indelible match. Found up In the Tree. You'll need it to light the bbq.
• CAUTION: Don't give the match to Anthony. He'll light the grass, killing you both.
• mobile phone. Found on the desk in Jeff's Office, but only after you've told him about the dustbin. You'll need the phone to call the gardener.
• local newspaper. Found at Camp site after the dustbin's emptied. You'll need to read it to learn the phone number of the gardener.
• meaty arm. Found at Camp site after Anthony is killed. Cook it on the bbq and give it to the hungry camper.
• gut. Found at Field after Anthony is killed. Cook it on the bbq and give it to the hungry camper.
• meaty leg. Found up In the Tree after Anthony is killed. Cook it on the bbq and give it to the hungry camper.

Score

In a total of several turns, you have achieved a score of some points out of a possible 9.

• 1 point for taking the £20 note.
• 1 point for taking the indelible match.
• 2 points for telling Jeff about the dustbin.
• 1 point for getting the grass cut.
• 2 points for reaching the second site.
• 2 points for satisfying the crazed camper's hunger.

Note there is some bugginess with scoring. For example, you can drop the match and take it again for yet another point as often as you like.

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