Key & Compass presents:
Frenemies: Or, I Won an Andy Phillips Game
by B F Lindsay

• Walkthrough
• Extras
  • Characters, Credits, Inventory
• Thank You to my Patreon supporters
• External links:
  • This game at IFDB, and IFWiki.
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Walkthrough

Your housemates have barricaded the door to the room you were playing IF in.

Gaming Room

Start with yourself and your inventory.

> x me. i. x bodysuit. x ID. x halo. x pendant.

> stand.

Figure out why the door won't open.

> x door. open door.

> x mirror. take towel. (beyond door and wall)

> x cords. pull lefthand cord. g. (towel falls)

> x mirror. (It's dark. No lights elsewhere in the house.)

> x window. look through window. (It's night.)

> x switch plate. turn on right switch.

> x mirror. (You see floor and top steps and towel.)

> x spyglass. x mirror through spyglass.

> pull righthand cord. x mirror.

> x mirror through spyglass. (jumprope tied to your doorknob and bathroom's)

> pull righthand cord. x mirror. (stairs and unlit room beyond)

Check out the rest of the room, particularly the bed and closet.

> x desk. look under desk. x chair. x shelf.

> x ceiling. x fan. x lamp. x beams.

> x bed. x pillow. x bedsheet. search it. (find cyberjack!)

> x cyberjack. look under bed. x rope.

> x closet. open it. x locker. (unlocks with Staff and cyberjack)

> pull locker. (find Staff!)

Play with the Staff a bit.

> x staff. (Lifescan, Heatscan, Attract, Repel, Mimic)

> turn on staff. heatscan door. heatscan pillow. touch pillow.

> mimic Alice. (Staff must be off for that.)

> turn off staff. mimic Alice. (no way)

Open the locker.

> unlock locker with staff. x port.

> put staff in lock. (oho. riggered lock or button lock?)

> x rigged lock. (has octagonal port and a circular hole)

> x button lock. (oh, that's part of your door)

> x circular hole.

> put staff in hole. turn on staff.

> put jack in port. (wear it first, please)

> wear jack. put jack in port. (locker opens; staff and jack are dropped)

> look in locker. x katana. take it.

Use the rope.

> throw rope at beams. (Now have gap in the drywall above your door.)

> x gap. put chair by gap.

> stand on chair. look through gap. d.

The katana can surely cut the jumprope, and that gap must be how the katana gets to it, so...?

> throw katana at gap. (Bah.)

Investigate the bed more:

> move mattress. x bed. x white slat. x brown slat.

> take brown slat. put it on white slat. (You have a see-saw)

> put katana on see-saw. (This looks right.)

> move chair to bed. stand on chair.

> jump on see-saw. (only strikes a crossbeam)

Perhaps if the bed was in the middle of the room, the sword wouldn't hit a crossbeam?

> move bed under fan. put brown slat on white slat.

> put katana on see-saw.

> move chair to bed. stand on chair.

> jump on see-saw. (now it hits the fan)

Well, we can turn the fan on and try again? We probably want its highest speed.

> push dial. turn dial to 3.

> put katana on see-saw. stand on chair.

> jump on see-saw.

The fan doesn't hit the sword well. Can we put something on the fan that will swat it better?

> push dial. (to turn the fan off)

> touch fan. (too far)

We'll need to put the bed back together to reach the fan.

> put brown slat on bed.

> drop all. put mattress on bed.

> stand on bed. jump. (You can just reach the fan this way.)

After much experimentation that I'll skip over, it turns out that the bodysuit is the only thing that'll go onto the fan without falling off right away.

> remove suit. x shorts. put suit on fan. d.

Set up the sword on the see-saw again.

> move mattress. put brown slat on white slat.

> put katana on see-saw.

Then turn on the fan (at speed 3) and jump on the see-saw!

> push dial. stand on chair. jump on see-saw. ("CHING!")

You may, optionally, want to put your bodysuit back on before opening the door.

> w.

*** One day. ***

Extras

Characters

There really aren't any other characters in the game besides the player character, but a few are mentioned:

• Your housemates are responsible for trapping you in your room. They don't share the PC's passion for interactive fiction. They and their dates only appear in the epilogue.
• Andy Phillips and several of his games are mentioned quite often. He's obviously the PC's favorite author of interactive fiction.
• Alice Wei Ling is the protagonist of Inside Woman, represented here in anime form on a bodypillow.

Credits

From the Credits menu-item accessed via the ABOUT command:

My ultimate thanks in this game, of course, go to Andrew Phillips, whose IF efforts I thoroughly enjoyed, and inspired me to write this lighthearted knock-off. He gave me his blessing for it; I only hope he will forgive me.

I also want to thank Brian Rushton (MathBrush) for encouraging me to write a one-room game in the first place, and enter it into IFComp 2019.

Thanks also need to be expressed to the Intfiction experts, Hanon Ondricek, Andrew Plotkin, JRB, Matt W, etc etc (too numerous to name here), for their invaluable help and advice.

And a hearty THANK YOU to my testers: Roger Durrant, Mike Carletta (who also inspired the bodypillow), Brian Rushton, and Stian Rødven Eide.

Inventory

• your special bodysuit. You're wearing it. You'll eventually want to remove the suit and put the suit on the ceiling fan. To reach the fan, move the bed under the fan, put the mattress back on the bed, then stand on the bed. Of course, the fan must be off while doing that. When the fan is rotating, the rest of the suit will be swung around like a tennis racket.
• your polka-dot boxers. You're wearing them underneath the bodysuit. You may search them, but you're unwilling to remove them.
• your halo. You're wearing it. You can say halo to make it glow, but you don't need to. You can ignore the halo.
• copper pendant. You're wearing it. You can press sphere on it to get a hint, but you can otherwise ignore the pendant.
• a spyglass. It's on the wall shelf. With the external light on (turn on right switch) and with the mirror at different angles, examine the mirror through the spyglass to learn what the situation is in the hallway outside your door.
• an octagonal cyberjack. It's under your bedsheet; move the sheet in any way to find it. Wear it. Unlock your footlocker with the cyberjack and your Staff; see footlocker to see exactly how.
• a rappelling rope. It's under your bed; look under your bed or take the mattress to find it. After you've used the spyglass to learn about the jump rope holding your door closed, throw the rappelling rope at the ceiling beams. Unfortunately, you just end up making a hole at the top of the drywall. Fortunately, you can use that new hole to help you escape.
• the Staff of Justice. It's behind your footlocker in the closet; pull the locker to reveal the Staff. Turn on the Staff to make it glow. Unlock your footlocker with the cyberjack and your Staff; see footlocker to see exactly how. You can also try to use its other functions (LIFESCAN, HEATSCAN, ATTRACT, REPEL, MIMIC), but those features don't actually work except for heatscan.
• a katana. This sword is inside your footlocker. Put the katana on the see-saw (see slats).
• your mattress. It's on your bedframe.
• You will need your hands free whenever you take the mattress. Also, you can't hold onto it very long. It's simplest to just move mattress to move it from bed to floor, or put mattress on bed to put it back.
• Move the mattress to reveal the slats in the bedframe. Also, the rappelling rope is under the bed as well.
• You can move the bed to other places in the room if the mattress isn't on it.
• When the bed is under the fan and the mattress is back on the bed, you can reach the ceiling fan by jumping on the mattress.
• your Alice Ling anime bodypillow. It's on your mattress. It's in the game mostly to give you a suitable target for your Staff of Justice special features, but the pillow doesn't help at all in solving the game's puzzles.
• a bedsheet. It's on your mattress. Move it in any way to find the cyberjack. After that, you can ignore the bedsheet.
• an alligator skin footlocker. It's inside your closet. Pull it out of the closet to reveal the Staff of Justice that was behind it. To unlock the footlocker, wear the cyberjack, turn the Staff on, put the Staff in the circular hole, then put the jack in the octagonal port.
• a white slat and a brown slat. They are on the bedframe; take the mattress off the bed to reveal them. After putting the bodysuit on the ceiling fan, and with the bed under the fan, remove the mattress again to reveal the slats and put one slat on the other to make a see-saw. Put the katana on the see-saw. Turn the fan on and to its highest speed.
• your folding chair. You're sitting on it, in front of your computer desk. When the suit is on the rotating fan and the katana on the see-saw below the fan, move the chair to the bed, stand on the chair, and finally jump on the see-saw. The katana will be thrown high in the air where it will be swatted by the suit through the hole in the drywall. The falling katana will cut through the jump rope keeping your door closed. (And no, you can't just throw the katana at the hole because you'd lose it that way. It's IF physics, people. These things only work in the most convoluted way possible.)

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