Key & Compass presents:
Djibouti Dirigible Discombobulation
by Sam Kabo Ashwell

• Walkthrough
  • Ending 1: Recombobulate the crystal with waggishness
  • Ending 2: Recombobulate the crystal with T'ang
  • Ending 3: Recombobulate the crystal with fearsomeness
  • Ending 4: Eat a creme brulee imbued with 9-dimensionality
• Extras
  • Characters, Endings, Inventory
• Thank You to my Patreon supporters
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Walkthrough

Rocky Scrubland

You won't be able to get past the goat while it's fearsome.

> about. x me. i. x gun. x screw. x essence.

> x goat. x fort. x spirit. x wing. x bushes.

> dis goat. (The gun extracts its fearsomeness.)

> s.

Fort Yaourt-Framboise

> x latrines. x ladder. u. u.

Bridge of the Spirit

The controls aren't even implemented; you can do nothing here.

> w.

Observation Lounge Bar

> x waiter. dis waiter. (He's too stubborn to give up his essences.)

> x ashtray. dis ashtray. (The gun absorbs its T'ang.)

> w.

Engine Room

> x crystal. dis crystal. (The gun absorbs its 9D-ness.)

> save.

You now have four essences to experiment with. Your targets are the goat, waiter, ashtray, and crystal. If you imbue the waiter with T'ang, you receive a fifth target: the creme brulee.

Of the seven possible endings, four of them are "good" endings with none being obviously the best one. So pick one:

Ending 1: Recombobulate the crystal with waggishness

Engine Room

> turn screw. (Repeat until "waggishness" is primed.)

> rec crystal. g.

*** You have thrown your lot in with the British ***

Ending 2: Recombobulate the crystal with T'ang

Engine Room

> turn screw. (Repeat until "T'ang" is primed.)

> rec crystal. g.

*** You have thrown your lot in with the Qing ***

Ending 3: Recombobulate the crystal with fearsomeness

Engine Room

> turn screw. (Repeat until "fearsomeness" is primed.)

> rec crystal. g.

*** You have become a minor power in your own right ***

Ending 4: Eat a creme brulee imbued with 9-dimensionality

Engine Room

> e.

Observation Lounge Bar

> turn screw. (Repeat until "T'ang" is primed.)

> rec waiter. (He gives you a creme brulee and leaves.)

> x brulee.

> turn screw. (Repeat until "9-dimensionality" is primed.)

> rec brulee. eat brulee.

*** You have transcended mere human reality ***

Extras

Characters

• A fearsome goat crops the grass in the scrubland.
• Obnoxious Waiter regards you with contempt in the Spirit's lounge bar.

Endings

• You have died if you recombobulate the waiter with fearsomeness.
• You have inadvertently given France the world if you recombobulate the waiter with 9-dimensionality.
• You have tasted defeat if you eat a fearsome creme brulee.
• You have thrown your lot in with the British if you recombobulate the crystal with waggishness.
• You have thrown your lot in with the Qing if you recombobulate the crystal with T'ang.
• You have become a minor power in your own right if you recombobulate the crystal with fearsomeness.
• You have transcended mere human reality if you eat a 9-dimensional creme brulee.

I note there's no ending where you do your assigned goal and return the Spirit to the Ottomans. Your choices are to lose, betray them, or transcend the issue entirely.

Inventory

• a Hennings-Jobson Sophical Discombobulator. It's a kind of gun; you're carrying it.
• There are three types of controls for this gun:
• You can discombobulate (dis) something. That is, you can extract an essential fluid from your target, draining them of that quality. NOTE: Discombobulating something mundane will actually recombobulate it with the gun's currently selected essence.
• You can recombobulate (rec) something. That is, you can imbue your target with an essential fluid, imparting that quality to them.
• You can turn a screw to select which essence to use for recombobulating.
• Each of the discombobulator's barrel chambers can contain a different fluid essence. The possible essences are:
• waggishness. The gun is initially loaded with this.
• fearsomeness. Acquire it by discombobulating the fearsome goat in the scrubland.
• T'ang. Acquire it by discombobulating the T'ang ashtray in the lounge bar.
• 9-dimensionality. Acquire it by discombobulating the crystal in the engine room.
• a creme brulee. Acquire it by recombobulating the waiter with T'ang.
• CAUTION: You can't tell visually what essence (if any) the brulee is imbued with.
• CAUTION: Eating the brulee when it's imbued with fearsomeness is fatal.

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