Dreadwine is a Z-machine interactive fiction game written with Inform 7 and is © 2006 by Eric Eve. It was an entry in the MC Dream mini-comp, also called the IF Dreams 2006.
In this retelling of a dream, you find yourself in a crowded yet strangely-quiet café with O'Brien and Sandra. O'Brien tells you that people are taken to the castle and turned into wine. Sandra knows she's next and has lost all hope. But there must be a way to escape this town and save Sandra! Isn't there?
This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on Release 1 of the game.
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Café2:00 pm
Note: Communication is done solely via TALK TO, which you may abbreviate to T.
> x O'Brien. (Is he one of "them"?)
> x Sandra. (You're fond of her.)
> x wine.
> talk to O'Brien. (He says he's here to help.)
> g. (He knows what's happening.)
> g. (They turn people into wine.)
> g. (They do it to feed on their spirit.)
> g. (They make the wine in the castle.)
> g. (No one's allowed to go.)
> g. (They're too powerful to stop; he leaves.)
> t Sandra. (No one gets out of here.)
> se. (Sandra comes with you.)
Street Corner
> x buildings. (You can't focus on them.)
> s.
South Street
> s. (Sandra stops you; "we can't just walk out of here")
> e. e.
Forest
> climb tree. (can't)
> listen. (faint leaves rustling only)
> t Sandra.
> e. (You get nowhere.)
> w. s.
River Bank
> x river. x boathouse.
Because you saw the boathouse, you are now able to convince Sandra to cross the bridge.
> n. w. s. s.
Secluded Meadow
> x steep bank.
> s. (You can't convince Sandra it's worth a try.)
> e. (locked)
> x door. x padlock. (very rusty)
> break padlock. e.
Boathouse
> x boat. x oars.
> push boat west.
Secluded Meadow
> push boat into river.
> enter boat.
> Sandra, enter boat. (She won't do it.)
> t Sandra. g. g.
> row boat. (Not without Sandra.)
> out.
> n. n. n. n. n.
Castle View
> x castle. x sky. x hill. x line.
> n. (no)
> s. s. w.
West Street
> w. (no)
> e. n. e.
Station Road
> e. (no)
> n.
Platform
A train arrives, followed by passengers. (I don't know what triggers the train's arrival; I assume you need to try to leave town by most of the other ways first.)
> x timetable. (it doesn't make sense)
> x horizon.
> x train. x passengers. x guard.
> t Sandra. g. g.
> get on train.
The guard shouts and runs towards you and an alarm bell starts ringing.
Your Bedroom (in bed)7:15 am
*** You have woken up ***
For the credits, type ABOUT, then select and open the "Credits" menu-item:
Credits
"Dreadwine" uses several Inform library extensions by Emily Short: Basic Screen Effects, Menus and Plurality.
Beta-testing was by Michel Nizette, who provided much valuable feedback and many helpful suggestions (as well as spotting quite a few typos!).
Last, but by no means least, the Inform language and library are by Graham Nelson.
There's only two endings.
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