Key & Compass presents:
Digging Time!
by Rob Wheeler

You are Mendoza, a miner on Pluto. The planetoid is shaking. You need to find your fellow miners and get off this rock before it breaks apart completely.

This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on Release 1 of the game.

Walkthrough
Extras
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Walkthrough

Pluto - Deep Mine

> x me. i.

> x sensor. (The emitter is to the north.)

> n.

Pluto - Deep Mine - Tunnel end

> x wall. x sensor. x digging tool.

> dig wall. (+1)

> n. (A rockslide blocks the way back.)

Pluto - Deep Mine - Vent Chamber

> x jim. take emitter. push blue button. (+2)

You're able to make a status report before you're cut off.

> x hole. d.

Pluto - Central Core - Brain Tree

> x tree. x kevin. (The tree tells you to dig.)

> dig tree. (+3. A typewriter is revealed.)

> x typewriter. (A leaf floats near you.)

> take leaf. x leaf.

> put leaf in typewriter.

> read leaf. (It's the text from the start of the game?! What?)

In an explosion of light, you and the tree are propelled apart.

Void

> i. (Your suit and the emitter are all you have.)

> x suit. push button. (+4. You are rescued.)

*** What the hell just happened ***

Extras

Characters

Jim Alewife is a fellow miner. You find his body in the vent chamber.
Kevin is a fellow miner. You find him in the central core bonded to a brain tree.

Inventory

An alien digging tool. You have it in your initial inventory. It's unusual, but it works. Use it to dig through the wall at the tunnel's end.
Your tracking sensor. You have it in your initial inventory. It tells you which way and how far away the signal emitter is.
Your atmos suit. You're wearing it through this story. You can't survive on or in Pluto without it. If you take it off, you die.
A signal emitter. You find it with Jim in the vent chamber. Push its blue button to turn it off. Later, in the void, push the button again to turn it on so others can find you.
A typewriter. Found in the central core by digging (under) the tree. Put the leaf in it.
A paper leaf. Found in the central core soon after you find the typewriter. Put it in the typewriter and then read the leaf to see what was printed.

Score

In that game you scored this-much out of a possible 10, in several turns.

1 point for digging through the rock wall.
2 points for turning off the emitter in the Vent Chamber.
3 points for digging at the base of the tree.
4 points for turning on the emitter in the Void.

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