Key & Compass presents:
Dynamite Powers vs. the Ray of Night!
by Mike Carletta

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Walkthrough

Episode 7: Fishing with Dynamite!

Cavern (in the titanium cage)

> menu. about. credits.

> x me. x uniform. x insignia. x rope. x cage.

The cage drops to 3 meters above the water! Perhaps it's time to escape?

> take pin. again. unlock door with pin. (Pin is lost.)

> swing cage. g.

The cage drops to 2 meters above the water.

> swing cage. g. g. g. g.

The cage drops to 1 meter above the water.

> swing cage. g.

You're stuck at 16 meters but keep swinging!

> g. g. g.

The cage is barely above the water.

> swing cage. (18 meters! That's as far as it'll reach.)

> jump.

The cage can't swing far enough until it's just above the water, but you have to start swinging the cage quite a bit before that.

Cavern

> x equipment. take knife. open knife. cut rope.

> close knife. x knife. read knife.

> x rope. x panel. x pool. x fish. x cable. x hatch.

> turn wheel. n.

The Laboratory

> x table. x book. read book.

> x machine. x bubble. x tubes.

> x landscape. x ravine. x dome. x sky. x Earth. x sun.

> look up 00000 in book. (It means Success.)

The initial pictures on the machine are of a violet-bellied Martian kangasaur. Start making notes of the grey colors you see. They're randomized and you'll need to know which is which later.

> x top picture.

> x middle picture. (Note the BELLY-COLOR.)

> x bottom picture. (Powerful jumper.)

It's not immediately obvious, but we're colorblind. We can only see black, white, and shades of gray.

> push top. push middle. push bottom.

Now we're looking at blue-eyed Venusian marshbats.

> x top. (Note the EYE-COLOR.)

> x middle. (Wings.)

> x bottom.

> push top. push middle. push bottom.

Now we're looking at a green-shelled frost turtle.

> x top. (Has its own air supply in a helmet.)

> x middle. (Note the SHELL-COLOR.)

> x bottom.

> push top. push middle. push bottom.

Now we're looking at a yellow-crested Jovian megastrich.

> x top. (Note the CREST-COLOR.)

> x middle.

> x bottom. (Powerful runner.)

> push top. push middle. push bottom. (Back to all kangasaurs.)

Remember which shade of gray was for which actual color because it's randomized! There's five possible grays: gunmetal, iron, pewter, slate, and taupe.

Time to turn ourselves into some hybrid creature.

• You need to design your body so it can breathe on Mars. You have 3 options: the turtle's head, the kangasaur's torso, or the marshbat's legs.
• You need to design your body so it can cross the ravine. You have 3 options for that: jump across with kangasaur legs, fly across with marshbat wings, or walk across on inflated turtle feet.
• You must choose three different animals for your body; otherwise you get a 69105 error.
• That results in only five combos that are potentially viable:
• turtle head (AIR) + bat torso (RAVINE) + kanga legs (RAVINE).
• turtle head (AIR) + 'strich torso (useless) + kanga legs (RAVINE).
• turtle head (AIR) + bat torso (RAVINE) + 'strich legs (kickers).
• bat head (echolocution) + kanga torso (AIR) + turtle legs (RAVINE).
• 'strich head (acid spit) + kanga torso (AIR) + turtle legs (RAVINE).
• It turns out that you also need to break a glass airlock to get into the dome, and only the megastrich legs can do that job. So pick turtle head, bat torso, and 'strich legs:

> push top. g. push middle. push bottom. g. g.

> enter bubble. (You drop the knife and you're now...)

Outside the Laboratory

Your mutation is temporary, by the way, so get moving!

> n.

South Side of the Canal

> x canal. fly.

North Side of the Canal

> n.

Outside the Dome

> x device. touch it. (Need a human hand.)

> kick airlock. (And you're human again and choking.)

> n.

Outside the Dome (in the glass airlock)

> push button.

South End of the Catwalk

> x mirror. x platform. n.

Platform

Soon after you arrive here, Lord Infamy will start taunting you via a loudspeaker. Ignore him.

> x console. x oversized button. (Note the BUTTON-COLOR. Its true color is red, of course.)

> read guide. read introduction.

> read quick start. (7 lenses for 7 apertures, then push the big red button.)

> read overview. (The lenses turn different colored light into black, then recombines it.)

> read technical. (Old light color minus lens color equals new light color.)

> read safety. (Generating non-black light will cause the deluminator to overheat.)

> open drawer. take lenses.

> x tube. x mechanism.

> push circular button. x disc.

Time to put lenses in apertures, but to create pure white light, not black! From the technical instructions, you know you need to shift the lenses by one from their intended locations.

> put black in white.

> put white in red.

> put BUTTON-COLOR in violet.

> put BELLY-COLOR in blue.

> put EYE-COLOR in green.

> put SHELL-COLOR in yellow.

> put CREST-COLOR in black.

> push oversized button. z. z. (Something starts happening.)

> z. z. z. z. z. (Earth gets white light.)

> z. (A falling crane bridges the northern gap.)

> n.

Conquest

You hitch a ride in Infamy's spaceship, but unfortunately you're in the combustion chamber!

*** The End ***

Extras

Characters

• Lord Infamy is a villain in the most stereotypical fashion possible.
• A minion whispers to Infamy in the intro. Other flunkies are off-stage elsewhere.

Mentioned:

• The Sentinels of Outer Space is a group that Commander Powers is very proud to be a member of.
• The Midnight Horde is the name of Infamy's footsoldiers. They've probably been trained to deal with the darkness that Infamy plans.
• Rosalind is a woman that Commander Powers knows. They've at least seen a movie together.
• Cole Porter is referenced when Infamy croons "In the Still of the Night".
• Vincent Price is referenced when Powers thinks of whom Infamy reminds him of.
• The Acme Technological Deluminator Corporation made the Deluminator. Do you suppose they sold more than one?

Credits

These are the game credits:

Dynamite Powers vs. the Ray of Night was written by Mike Carletta for the 2018 Interactive Fiction Competition.

You may write slash fic, sing filk or cosplay Dynamite Powers. In fact, please do.

Thanks to my wife and muse, Kathy. She is my sounding board, editor and chief tester. She deserves much of the credit, and none of the blame.

Thanks to Sean M. Shore, J. Michael, Linus Åkesson and Mathbrush for their patient and thorough beta testing.

Many thanks to Brendon and Brian Fraim at www.fraimworks.com, who created the beautiful cover art.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.

Endings

All endings end with The End in this game, but not all endings are the same.

• You die if you're in the cage when it sinks into the water.
• You die if you jump from the cage when it's not close enough to the shore.
• You die if you transform into a creature that can't breathe outside the buildings.
• You die if you sink in the canal's powder.
• You die if you return to human form outside on Mars and either have no way to save yourself or you don't get back inside in time.
• You have failed if you subject Earth to the black Ray of Night.
• You have failed (and die) if you subject Earth to a red, violet, blue, green, or yellow Ray.
• You have won if you escape in Infamy's spaceship after saving the Earth.

Inventory

• a uniform. You're wearing it. Leave it on. How does it survive your transformation and back again? The censors, no doubt.
• a Sentinels of Outer Space insignia. You're wearing it. It's a pin. Take the pin (twice) and unlock the cage door with it. The pin falls into the pool and is lost.
• an unbreakable nylon fiber rope. Your wrists are bound by it. Cut them with the knife; they are now some rope fragments which you may ignore.
• a Boy Scout knife. Find it in the cavern by examining your equipment after you escape the cage. Take and open the knife, then cut the rope with it. Close the knife afterwards. If you're still carrying the knife when you transform, you'll drop it outside the laboratory. None of the creatures you can turn into have the ability to pick it up, not even with the turtle's suction cups.
• an Acme Mark III Deluminator Instruction Guide. It's on the console of the Platform. You don't need to pick it up, but you should read all sections of the book to understand how the deluminator works.
• some lenses with glass of different colors. There's seven of them inside the drawer of the Platform. Push the circular button on the tube to eject the a disc containing seven apertures, each labeled with a different color word. The goal is not to put the lenses into the correct apertures, but to put the lenses into incorrect apertures such that an all-white ray will be produced.
• a lens with white-colored glass. Put the white lens in the red aperture.
• a lens with black-colored glass. Put the black lens in the white aperture.
• a lens with gunmetal-colored glass, a lens with pewter-colored glass, a lens with iron-colored glass, a lens with taupe-colored glass, and a lens with slate-colored glass. For these gray-shaded lenses, you'll have remember where you saw those grays and act accordingly:
• Put the BUTTON-COLOR lens (which is actually red) in the violet aperture.
• Put the BELLY-COLOR lens (which is actually violet) in the blue aperture.
• Put the EYE-COLOR lens (which is actually blue) in the green aperture.
• Put the SHELL-COLOR lens (which is actually green) in the yellow aperture.
• Put the CREST-COLOR lens (which is actually yellow) in the black aperture.

Transmutation Return Codes

Not every five-digit number is a valid return code. Here are some of the ones that are valid:

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