Key & Compass presents:
Elephants and the Afterlife
by David Fillmore

Elephants and the Afterlife is a Z-machine interactive fiction game written with Inform 6 and is © 2000 by David Fillmore. It was entered in the Speed-IF 13 event. Release 2 was released the day after Release 1 (which has the slightly different title The Elephant and the Afterlife) and both versions are available in the Speed-IF 13 collection.

You play as someone in a Chinese restaurant with no exits, a blocked up chimney, and a peanut. Then an elephant bursts in through the east wall and accidentally kills you. The game continues from there.

This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on Release 2 of the game.

Walkthrough
Extras
- Characters, Inventory
Thank You to my Patreon supporters
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- This game at IFDB, IFWiki, and ifwizz.
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Walkthrough

Chinese Restaurant

Don't give the peanut to the elephant, or you lose them both.

> x me. i. x peanut. (Soon after the third turn, an elephant crashes in through the east wall, and kills you.)

> x elephant. x me. x corpse. take peanut. x chimney. e.

Field of Mud

You can't refer to the pidgeon. Fortunately, you don't need to.

> x mud. hit mud. x pigeon. x tree. u. (The elephant should follow you up the tree.)

Up a Tree

The elephant follows you up. Tree collapses and disappears. Elephant eats peanut and disappears.

Field of Mud

> z. z. z. (After three turns without the tree no longer shading the mud, the mud should dry out and become dirt. But it's still called "mud".)

> hit mud. look. x crowbar. take it.

You are now back in the restaurant.

Chinese Restaurant

> hit chimney.

You release Santa Claus and he furnishes the restaurant. Then the restaurant owner brings you back to life.

*** You have won ***

Extras

Characters

An elephant bursts into the restaurant after three turns, killing you in the process. He really wants that peanut.
A pidgeon, not a pigeon, is hugging the sculpture in the Field of Mud.
Santa Claus is the person banging on the other side of the blocked up chimney. He appears in the epilogue.
The restaurant owner shows up in the epilogue and brings you back to life.

Mentioned:

Doraemon, the robot-cat from the future, is represented by a sculpture in the Field of Mud.

Inventory

a peanut. You're carrying it until you're killed. Take the peanut from your corpse. Don't give it to the elephant. Instead, lure the elephant up the tree by taking it there.
a crowbar. It's at Field of Mud when you destroy the sculpture. Taking it puts you back into the restaurant. Hit the chimney with it.

Thank You to my Patreon supporters

This walkthrough is provided free of charge since I wrote this walkthrough prior to January 2015 when I began my Patreon account, and also because the work it's based on has less than fifteen locations (so I wouldn't have charged for it anyway). I've since reformatted this walkthrough to use my currently preferred style. I hope you enjoy it!