Key & Compass presents:
The Ghost Ship
by Jonathan Snyder

• Map
• Walkthrough
• Extras
  • Characters, Credits, Endings, Inventory
• Thank You to my Patreon supporters
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Map

Walkthrough

Your Cell

> x me. i. (carrying nothing)

> x cot. x blanket. x hole. x lantern. x door.

> take lantern. (just out of reach)

> open door. (locked)

> break cot. look. x rod. take rod.

> take lantern. (With the rod, you get it.)

> switch on lantern. (It only sparks.)

> open door. (already open?)

> w. w.

Storage Room

While exploring the ship, you'll see a strange mist seeping in everywhere. The mist is disturbing, but it never hurts you.

> take can. e. u.

Galley

The rusted door is actually WEST, not east.

> x dog. (breathing?)

> x boards. x knife. take knife. x bloodstain.

Make sure the oil isn't in the lantern when you do use the oil on the rusted door; the game gets confused otherwise. If you don't oil the rusted door, the squeal from the hinges will wake the dog who will kill you.

> use oil on rusted door.

Before going any further, you must light the lantern.

> put oil in lantern. switch on lantern.

> w.

Crew Deck

Your fire keeps the zombies from attacking you. Again, the gun room is WEST, not east.

> x zombies. x hammocks.

> w.

Gun Room

Work quickly here. There is a risk that the man will wake up.

> x man. (He's sleeping and has black keys)

> take keys. unlock trapdoor with keys.

> u.

Quarterdeck

You jump off the deck into icy water. Dawn arrives and the ghost ship vanishes.

*** The End ***

Extras

Characters

• A skeletonized dog is sleeping in the galley.
• Zombie crewmen are wandering about randomly in the crew deck.
• Ghostly Sailor, who is also undead, is sleeping in the gun room.

Credits

Part of the Readme file included with the game says:

Introduction
This story was written for the EctoComp 2015 Speed-IF competition and was made with great loving care, but because there was only three hours to have it written, It may still have some bugs. To report them please do not hesitate to email me at: redacted

Many thanks goes out to my beta testers who help me knock out the bugs they could find!

Betatesters

Ryan Veeder, Toby Ott,

Endings

All endings end with The End.

Losing endings:

• The dog kills you if you open the rusted door without first using oil on it.
• The zombies kill you if you enter the crew deck without a lit lantern.
• Ghostly Sailor throws you into a cell that you can't escape from if he wakes up and sees you.

Winning ending:

• You jump off the ship when you reach the quarterdeck.

Inventory

• a rod. It appears in your cell after you break the cot.
• While holding the rod, you can reach and take the lantern from your cell's ceiling.
• a Lantern. It's hanging from the ceiling in your cell.
• Before going west from the galley, put the oil into the lantern, then switch on the lantern. The lantern's flame will keep the zombies away from you in the crew deck.
• a whale oil. There's a can of oil in the storage room.
• In the galley, first USE the oil on the rusted door. Now when you open the rusted door, you won't wake the dog. (Make sure the oil isn't inside the lantern when you USE oil; the game throws up an error message otherwise.)
• Also in the galley, put the oil into the lantern, then switch on the lantern. The lantern's flame keeps the zombies in the next room from attacking you.
• knife. It's stabbed into one of the cutting boards in the galley.
• Surprisingly, you don't actually need or use the knife.
• a black keys. They're carried by Ghostly Sailor in the the gun room.
• Take them, unlock the trapdoor with them, and go up before Ghostly Sailor wakes up.

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