Key & Compass presents:
Foo Foo
by Buster Hudson

• Map
• Walkthrough
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  • Characters, Endings, Inventory, References
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Map

• Note: The "Studio Apartment" is in another part of town entirely and not shown on this map. The apartment setting is used only for the prologue and epilogue of the game.

Walkthrough

The game begins by quoting the poem "Little bunny Foo Foo".

> SPACE

Studio Apartment

> x me. x pajamas. look through window.

> open door.

Foo Foo, a rabbit, enters and a menu conversation begins. All choices are effectively the same.

> 1 —or— 2 —or— 3

> 1 (You decide you need a witness.)

• • • • •

> SPACE

Next morning, you're with Murphy at the barricade. He's chewing gum. His magic wand is named Big Tommy.

Also, you've hidden Foo Foo inside the postbox, so don't open it unless you want to end the game prematurely.

By the Postbox

> x me. i. x badge. x mugshot.

> x hat. x coat. x wings. x heels.

> x Murphy. x Tommy.

> x poster. x postbox. x lamp. x barricade. x sidewalk.

> talk to Murphy.

> 1 (You get a wad of gum.)

Murphy tells you a field mouse was bopped on the head. Sabado, the bar owner, called it in.

> 3 (End the conversation.)

> x gum.

You needn't rush straight to Sabado. Begin by taking a leisurely stroll down the lane, exploring all the shops one-by-one.

> e. n.

Inside Get Your Nibbles

Ask Holly about herself:

> 1 (Awkward.)

Ask Holly about nibbles:

> 1 (She offers a sample.)

> 1

> 2 —or— 3 —or— 4 —or— 5 —or— 6 —or— 7

> SPACE

> 1 —or— 2 —or— 3 (Only field mice eat nibbles.)

> 1 —or— 2

Ask Holly about the rabbit:

> 1 (She hasn't seen Foo Foo.)

> 1 (Conversation ends.)

Examine the shop:

> x toys. take rabbit. (Not for sale.)

> x nibblets. x Holly. x counter. n. (Locked.)

> s. e. n.

Inside Feckless Pawn

Ask Domingo about cheese:

> 1 (New cheesemonger in town called the Verde.)

Ask Domingo about mice:

> 2

Ask Domingo about rabbit:

> 1 (They all look the same to him.)

> 1 (Conversation ends.)

Examine the shop:

> x Domingo. x watch. x portrait. x desk. (Hm. Later.)

> x junk. x goblet. x vase. x tapestry. x idol. x dagger.

> take dagger. g. g. g. g. g. (Entertaining, but futile.)

> s. se.

Bend in the Road

> x house. x door. e.

Outside Cameracopia

> x door. x awning. n.

Inside Cameracopia

Ask Fern about what happened here:

> 1 (She hopes you can tell her that.)

Ask Fern about mice:

> 2

Ask Fern about rabbit:

> 1 (She tells you there was a ghost last night.)

Ask Fern about ghost:

> 1 (Finch scared it with a flash. Also, threatening note somewhere here.)

> 1 (Conversation ends.)

Examine the shop:

> x Fern. x Finch. x flash.

> talk to Finch. take flash.

> x mess. x note. (Sabado made them an offer.)

> e. (Locked; Fern says it's their dark room.)

> s. e.

Outside Dinosaur Island

The description of the dinosaurs is randomized.

> x window. x dinosaurs. g. g. x trees. x sign.

> n.

Inside Dinosaur Island

> x curtain. move it. n.

Workshop

Ask Trex about mice:

> x Trex. talk to Trex.

> 2

Ask Trex about rabbit:

> 1 (He says Doohickey, a stuffed red dinosaur, would've heard who Foo Foo was talking to.)

Tell Trex about your idea:

> 1 (You need a wand and wish powder.)

> 1 (Conversation ends.)

Look around:

> x Doohickey.

> x cabinet. open it. look in hole. (A small bottle is in there.)

> s. s. e. e.

The Forest

Ask Sabado about mice:

> 2

Ask Sabado about Lumpen Lane:

> 2

Ask Sabado about Foo Foo:

> 1 (He confirms his report.)

> 1 (Conversation ends.)

Explore the bar:

> x jukebox. x shovel. take shovel.

> w. n. w.

Behind Cameracopia

> x dumpster. (empty) x door. (reinforced)

> w.

Behind an Abandoned Rowhouse

> x trashcan. x door. s. (Locked.)

> nw.

Behind Get Your Nibbles

> x door. s. (Locked.)

> x wall. x rowhouses.

You've explored enough. Time to start solving puzzles. Return to Trex's workshop:

> se. e. e. s. w. n. n.

Workshop

> put gum on shovel. put shovel in hole.

> x bottle. (It removes things.)

> s. s. w. w.

Bend in the Road

> x coin. take coin. (Someone shoots at you from the rowhouse!)

> x window. u. (You land on the window sill.)

> open shutters. (You need a tool.)

> d. nw. n.

Inside Feckless Pawn

> put remove-o on dagger. take dagger.

> s. se. u.

Bend in the Road

> open shutters. (You use the dagger and enter...)

Empty Bedroom

> x bag. x dirt. x cheese. take bag.

> x mold. x stairs. d.

Flooded Kitchen

> x water. n.

Behind an Abandoned Rowhouse

Still nothing here. Take the bag to Murphy:

> s. u. out. nw. w. w.

By the Postbox

Ask Murphy to analyze the bag and if you can borrow Big Tommy:

> talk to Murphy. > 1 > 1 > 3

> e. n.

Inside Get Your Nibbles

Ask Holly for wish powder:

> talk to Holly. > 1 > 1

> x powder.

> s. e. se. e. e. n. n.

Workshop

Tell Trex you're ready:

> talk to Trex. > 1

> put powder on Doohickey. point wand at Doohickey.

Doohickey, now alive, can't talk. He barks. You take him anyway.

> s. s. w. w. nw. n.

Inside Feckless Pawn

Doohickey barks as you enter. Ask Domingo about Foo Foo:

> talk to Domingo.

> 1 (Domingo runs away. You're now outside.)

Outside Feckless Pawn

> w. w.

By the Postbox

Talk with Murphy about Domingo:

> 1 —or— 2 —or— 3

> 3 (End conversation.)

> e. e. n.

Inside Feckless Pawn

> x desk. open drawer. x book. (Hypnotism?)

> x papers. (Gambling debts.)

> open book. (Domingo was hypnotizing Foo Foo to bop mice... for Sabado?)

> s. se. e. e. e. e.

The Forest

Optionally play the jukebox:

> put coin in slot.

> listen to jukebox.

> g. g. g. g. g.

> g. g. g. g. g.

> g. g. g. g. g.

> g. g. g. g. g.

> g. g. g. g.

Confront Sabado about the boppings and reject his bribe:

> talk to Sabado. > 1 > 1 > 1

Sabado says Foo Foo's a dealer working for the Verde.

> w. w. w. w. nw. w. w.

By the Postbox

Send Murphy away. Talk to Foo Foo, but keep him hidden:

> talk to Murphy. > 1 > 1

Foo Foo doesn't know who the Verde is. He gets the cheese from behind the rowhouse and gives the money to Holly.

Then Murphy returns with the lab results: the dirt is from nibble, the same flavour you sampled.

> 2 (End conversation.)

> e. n.

Inside Get Your Nibbles

Confront Holly:

> 1 > 1 > 1 > 1 (The Verde is a "she"?)

She asks where she went wrong. I prefer telling the truth and not kissing her, but it's up to you.

> 1 —or— 2 —or— 3

> 1 —or— 2

> 1

Instead of telling you who the Verde is, she gives you a key and unlocks the kitchen, saying the revolver's under a loose tile.

> n.

Kitchen

> x bucket. x floor. (You take the gun.)

> x gun.

> n. se. e.

Behind Cameracopia

> unlock door with key.

Cuddly toys making cheese draw guns and shoot at you!

> x toys. look.

> x cheese. x cash. x chandelier.

> shoot chandelier. x nozzle. shoot nozzle.

> SPACE

Cheese Room

Fern enters with a shotgun pointed at you.

> 1 —or— 2 —or— 3

> 1 —or— 2 (Holly bops Fern.)

Holly asks you about herself. Let her off:

> 2.

Holly asks for another favor. She wants her contract back from Sabado.

She suggests fooling him into thinking you found Foo Foo. And she tells you a key is buried in the bar's dirt.

> x bodies. x Fern.

> w. s. w. nw. w. n.

Inside Get Your Nibbles

> put powder on rabbit. point wand at rabbit. (It's now following you.)

> x rabbit.

> s. e. se. e. e. e. e.

The Forest

Sabato grabs the rabbit and takes it into the back room.

> dig. g. g. g. g. (You find an iron key.)

> unlock door with iron key. n.

Below the Forest

> x snake. listen.

You accidentally make a sound and Sabado shouts to get the rabbit and anything with wish powder out of here!

> take rabbit. (The snake's in the way!)

> x flash. push button. take rabbit. s.

The Forest

> search counter. take letter. x letter.

It's not Holly's contract. It's from Hannibal Sistrum of Diamond Inc. regarding Alabaster Estates.

> drop rabbit. drop Doohickey. drop pouch.

> n.

Below the Forest

Sabato introduces you to Mr. Sistrum, a snake who's allergic to wish powder. Answer all of their questions, then ask all of yours:

> 1 —or— 2 —or— 3

> 1 —or— 2 —or— 3

> 1 > 1 > 1 > 1 > 1

You learn that Hannibal had one of his fits while at the camera shop and that Holly lied about a contract with Sabato.

> s.

The Forest

> take pouch, rabbit, Doohickey.

> w. w. n. n.

Workshop

> give Doohickey to Trex. > 1

> s. s. w. n. e.

Cheese Room

Holly is gone with the cash, leaving a little green heart.

Three months later...

> SPACE

• • • • •

Studio Apartment

More rain, and another knock on the door.

> open door.

Foo Foo enters, his arm partly torn. He was stuffed all along.

> 1 > 1

Ask all your questions:

> 1 > 1 > 1

Finally, he asks, "Did you love her?"

> 1 —or— 2

If you say "yes", you cuddle Foo Foo in your bed that night. If you say "no", he chooses a spot on the floor for the night. Either way, the next morning, he's a lifeless toy.

*** The End ***

Extras

Characters

• Good Fairy, Senior Detective, is the player character.
• Foo Foo is a rabbit suspected of bopping field mice on the head. He's done it before.
• Murphy is a rookie officer guarding the barricade by the postbox.
• Holly is a green fairy and runs Get Your Nibbles. Good knows her from when they were both on wish duty.
• Domingo is a rat, the owner of Feckless Pawn, a former cheesemonger, and a descendant of Captain Verdeterre.
• Fern is a finch and the co-owner of Cameracopia; her partner is a fern named Finch.
• Trex is a field mouse who makes toys in his Workshop within Dinosaur Island.
• Sabado is a rat, the barkeep of The Forest, and another Verdeterre.
• Hannibal Sistrum of Diamond Inc. is a white rattlesnake who you may meet Below the Forest. He's a business associate of Sabato's.
• Doohickey is a stuffed dinosaur that you animate with wish powder and bring to life, temporarily.
• A stuffed rabbit is another thing you magically animate.
• Several cuddly toys, animated with wish powder, shoot at you when you discover them making illegal cheese.

Mentioned:

• The Verde is a new cheesemonger in the neighborhood and an alias of one of the main characters, but who?
• Captain Verdeterre, Domingo's ancestor, is the subject of the portrait in the pawn shop.
• The field mice that were bopped on the head or have gone missing.
• Sabado's backers, one of which is Hannibal.
• Mistletoe is another fairy that Holly once kissed.

Endings

All endings to this game end with The End, but they're not all the same.

1. If you open the postbox early, exposing Foo Foo, it's Goontown for him.
2. If you deliver the real Foo Foo to Sabato, you get no compensation, and you have no option but to deliver Foo Foo to Murphy. You're then the subject of an internal review for your mishandling of the case. You manage to keep your job, but you dare not visit Lumpen Lane again.
3. After the gunfight, if you decide to turn Holly in, she'll fly off. Then, when you open the postbox, you tell Murphy that Sabato was the real culprit and to arrest the cheesemonger in the camera shop.
4. Foo Foo visits you and reveals he was an animation all along. If you tell him you didn't love Holly, he spends his last night of life on your floor.
5. Foo Foo visits you and reveals he was an animation all along. If you tell him you did love Holly, he spends his last night of life with you in your bed.

Note that some choices in the game don't actually derail the story to a different ending as you might expect. For example:

• If you accept Sabato's bribe, he still wants you to bring Foo Foo to him.
• If you lie to Holly about why you broke up with her, the conversation is a bit more painful for Holly, but she still gives you the small key and opens her kitchen to you.
• If you decide to kiss Holly, you get a moment of happiness, but then it's back to business.
• If you side with Fern after the gunfight, she still gets knocked out by Holly.

Inventory

• your pajamas. You're wearing them during the scenes set in your Studio Apartment. Leave them on.
• your badge. It's your police ID and in your inventory after the initial Studio Apartment scene. Just carry it. You won't need to explicitly show it to anyone.
• a mugshot. It's a picture of Foo Foo and in your inventory after the initial Studio Apartment scene. Just carry it. You won't need to explicitly show it to anyone.
• a chewed gum ball. You get it when you talk to Murphy for the first time. Put the gum on the shovel.
• a shovel. It's in The Forest. Put the chewed gum ball on the shovel. In Workshop, put the shovel in the hole to retreive the bottle.
• a bottle of Presto Remove-O. It's in the hole of the cabinet in the Workshop. To get the bottle, put gum on the shovel and then the shovel in the hole. When at Inside Feckless Pawn, put Remove-O on the dagger to loosen it, then take the dagger.
• a handwritten note. It's Inside Cameracopia; find it by examining the mess. Read it.
• an Edgerton flash. It's beside Finch in Inside Cameracopia. Much later, when Under the Forest, push the flash's button to scare the snake so you can take the stuffed rabbit.
• a curved dagger. It's stuck in the wall Inside Feckless Pawn. Put Remove-O on the dagger to loosen it, then take the dagger. At Bend in the Road, open the shutters of the upstairs window with the dagger.
• a shiny coin. Found at Bend in the Road in midgame, possibly you have to talk to Holly first. Take it; someone will shoot at you and miss as you bend to pick it up. You may put the coin in The Forest's jukebox's slot to turn it on, but you don't need to do that.
• a paper bag. It's in the Empty Bedroom of the abandoned rowhouse. It contains cheese and dirt. Go to Murphy and ask him to have the dirt analyzed.
• Big Tommy. It's a magic wand held by Murphy. Ask him if you can borrow it and he'll reluctantly let you have it. Point the wand at Doohickey and the stuffed rabbit after you've put wish powder on either of them to bring them temporarily to life.
• a pouch of wish powder. Ask Holly for some wish powder, and she'll give you a pouch containing two doses of powder.
• Use the first dose of powder on Doohickey and point the wand at it to bring it temporarily to life.
• Use the second dose of powder on a stuffed rabbit and point the wand at it to bring it temporarily to life.
• After you confront Sabado at Below the Forest, go back up to The Forest and drop all three items contaminated with wish powder (Doohickey, rabbit, pouch) before returning downstairs.
• Doohickey. It's a stuffed dinosaur in the Workshop. After talking to Trex, put some wish powder on Doohickey and point the wand at it to bring it to life. Take the animated Doohickey and it will bark, giving you a reason to talk to Domingo again.
• a book. It's in the desk drawer in Feckless Pawn. Read it, then later talk to Sabado about it.
• some papers. They're in the desk drawer in Feckless Pawn. Read them.
• a revolver. After Holly tells you where it is, acquire it by examining the floor in Get Your Nibbles's kitchen. Later, when in a gunfight Behind Cameracopia, shoot the chandelier, then shoot the nozzle.
• a small key. Holly will give it to you during a conversation when you ask her who the Verde is. It unlocks the back door at Behind Cameracopia.
• an iron key. After Sabato has taken the rabbit, acquire the iron key by digging five times (with the shovel) in The Forest. It unlocks the north door there.
• a stuffed rabbit. After Holly has fled, put some wish powder on a stuffed rabbit in Get Your Nibbles and point the wand at it to bring it to life. The animated rabbit looks just like Foo Foo. Lead it to The Forest, and Sabato will grab it. When you're Under the Forest, push the button on the flash to scare the snake, then take the rabbit upstairs and drop it there.
• a letter. After Sabato leaves The Forest, search the counter to find the letter. Read it.

References

This is probably not a complete list, but these are the ones I noticed.

• Foo Foo and the Good Fairy are from the children's poem Little Bunny Foo Foo which is displayed at the very start of the game.
• Domingo's ancestor, Captain Verdeterre, as seen in the portrait inside Feckless Pawn, is from Captain Verdeterre's Plunder.
• The stuck dagger in Feckless Pawn is a reference to a similar stuck dagger in Captain Verdeterre's Plunder.
• Dinosaur Island is a tribute to The Island of Doctor Wooby.
• Get Your Nibbles is a tribute to the ice cream shop in Taco Fiction.

Thank You to my Patreon supporters

This walkthrough was funded via Patreon with

• the support of Robin Johnson, Ville Lavonius, Andrew Schultz, Kenneth Hon, Jason McIntosh, Carl Muckenhoupt, Mark Musante, and Phil Tatro;
• the generous support of Janice M Eisen and Matthew Foxley;
• the very generous support of Karl Ove Hufthammer;
• the extremely generous support of Emily Short, Allen Garvin, Jesse McGrew, Jacqueline Ashwell, Marius Müller, and Jennifer Rexrode;
• and the invisible support of several anonymous patrons.