In this silly small buggy game, you play as Dash Slapney. You foil the bad guys with a bare minimum effort and dumb luck. Your new mission: save Halloween here in Vanillaville. It's being taken over by candy corn.
This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on Release 1 of the game.
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> x me. answer phone.(They need you to save Halloween in Vanillaville from candy corn.)
> x phone. x basket. x battery.
> take basket.
> w. n.
Your Bathroom
> x shower. x sink. x mirror. x toilet.
> x tube. take it.
> x can. take it.
> s. w.
Your Kitchen
> x brownie. take it.
> e.
Your Main Hallway
> s.(Henrietta Peckler blocks you.)
She wants you to sign a promise not to give chocolate to children. She offers a pen.
> x Peckler. sign.(She hands you some candy corn.)
> x corn.
> s. look.(There's now an annoying girl and boy here.)
> x girl. x boy.
> n.
Your Bathroom
> take battery.
> fill basket.(It now has water.)
> s.
Your Main Hallway
> throw water at girl.(No, use SPLASH AT.)
> splash water at girl.(Or at boy. They leave.)
> s.
Your Driveway
> enter Ford. x loudspeaker.(off)
> open glove. x bar. take it.
> drive.(A list of destinations is displayed.)
Go to the gas station first!
> drive to gas station.
Gas Station
> x Smitty. give bar to Smitty.(You get a costume.)
> x costume.
> drive to golf course.
By the Golf Course
> turn on loudspeaker.(You get a box of bang-snaps.)
> x bang-snaps.(empty)
> drive to seedy street.
Seedy Street
> x meter. x youth.
> give tube to youth.
> give can to youth.(He gives a carton of cigarettes.)
> x carton.
> drive to hospital.
Front of Hospital
> x detector. out.
> put battery in brownie.
> n.(The detector is now broken, and a kid wants something.)
Hospital X-Ray Room
> look. x sullen boy.
> give bang-snaps.(He takes them. You grab some files, and he runs.)
> i. x files.
> s. enter car.
> drive to Pecklers.
Outside the Pecklers
You must be in the costume and have the carton of cigarettes to go with your costume before the game will let you crash the party.
> out. wear costume. n.
Pecklers' Living Room
> x fireplace. x platter. take it.
> put carton in fireplace. look.
Impossible to guess you can go DOWN from here, except for the fact you haven't found anything useful here yet.
> d.
Pecklers' Basement
> open cabinet. x document. take it.
> u. s.(You discard the costume.)
Outside the Pecklers
> enter car. drive to Corny's.
Outside Corny's
> out. n.
Corny's Cornporate Headcornters
> x Mister Corn —or— x Corny.
> show document to Corny.(You get an invoice.)
> x invoice.
> s. enter car. drive to City Hall.
City Hall Steps
> out. n.
Inside City Hall
> x Mayor. x suit. x tie.
> show invoice to mayor.
> show files to mayor.(You get a chocolate cigar.)
> SPACE
You're now back at...
Your Driveway
> x cigar. out. n. u.
Your Living Room
> eat cigar —or— sleep.
*** The End ***
Extras
Characters
Henrietta Peckler is on a crusade to stop anyone from eating chocolate. She won't let you leave your home until you sign something promising not to give any chocolate to children.
An annoying girl dressed as Michelle Bachmann and an annoying boy dressed as a Winkelvoss twin block you from leaving your home after Henrietta leaves. Their mother is nearby.
Smitty runs the local gas station.
A bunch of teens are enjoying a campfire in the woods by the golf course.
A seedy youth on a seedy street wants to vandalize something.
A sullen boy in the hospital hates loser adults.
People you can't stand mill about at the Pecklers' party.
Mister Corn, a.k.a. Corny, is worried why Henrietta's group would buy so much candy corn in a flavor that not even orphans would eat.
Mayor Charley Chummers is at City Hall, blocked out of his own office, waiting for you to bring him some evidence. I assume he's the one who called you at the beginning of the game.
Mentioned:
A vengeful sidewalk crack fairy granted Smitty's wish to be called Smitty.
Inventory
your favorite plastic wastebasket. It's in your bedroom.
a toothpaste tube and a shaving cream can. Both are in your bathroom.
At the seedy street, give both the tube and the can to the seedy youth. He's give you a carton of cigarettes in exchange.
BUG: You still have the tube and can after giving them.
a brownie. It's on your kitchen table.
Outside the hospital, put the battery in the brownie, then go north (through the chocolate detector). The detector will break, and the battery is gone. (BUG: You keep the brownie.)
a bag of candy corn. In your main hallway, Henrietta Peckler gives this to you when you sign something about not feeding children any chocolate.
You can't do anything useful with the candy corn. You can't open the bag. You can't eat the candy.
a chocolate bar. It's in your Ford Escort's glove compartment.
At the gas station, give the bar to Smitty, and he'll give you the cigarette costume.
BUG: You can give the bar to anyone to get the costume.
a box of bang-snaps. Acquire it by turning on your car's loudspeaker when by the golf course. Some teens drop it.
In the hospital's x-ray room, give the box to the sullen boy. You'll get some secret hospital files in exchange. (BUG: You keep the box.)
a life-size cigarette costume. At the gas station, Smitty gives the costume to you when you give him the chocolate bar.
Outside the Pecklers', wear the costume. If you also have the carton of cigarettes, you can enter their house, disguised as a Halloween party guest.
some secret hospital files. Acquire them in the hospital's x-ray room by giving the box of bang-snaps to the sullen boy.
Read the files.
Inside City Hall, show the both the invoice and the files to the mayor to get a chocolate cigar.
carton of cigarettes. At the seedy street, give both the toothpaste tube and shaving cream can to the seedy youth. He gives the carton in exchange.
In the Pecklers' living room, put the carton into the fireplace. Everyone will flee from the second-hand smoke, and you can explore more of the house.
an important watermarked document. It's in the filing cabinet in the Pecklers' basement.
Read the document.
At Corny's Cornporate Headcornters, show the document to Corny to get an invoice.
an invoice. Acquire it at Corny's Cornporate Headcornters by showing the important watermarked document to Mister Corn (aka Corny).
Read the invoice.
Inside City Hall, show the both the invoice and the files to the mayor to get a chocolate cigar.
a chocolate cigar. Inside City Hall, the mayor gives this to you after you've shown him both the invoice and the secret hospital files.
Take the cigar to your living room and either eat the cigar or sleep to win the game.
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