Key & Compass presents:
A Good Breakfast
by Stuart Adair

• Map
• Walkthrough
• Extras
  • Acknowledgements, Amusing, Characters, Endings, Inventory, Score
• Thank You to my Patreon supporters
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Map

Walkthrough

Bedroom

The bed's drawer can never be opened.

> verbose.

> x me. i. stand. (Naked and empty-handed.)

> x bed. open drawer. (Can't.)

> x posters. x cracks. x wardrobe. open it. look in it. (empty)

> e.

Landing

> open bathroom door. (Probably someone in there and sleeping.)

> d.

Hall

> read postcard. (Water cut off today for repairs.)

> take envelope. x it. (It's for your neighbour.)

> open it. x photos. (Of him and his secretary.)

> x cups. x letterbox.

> w.

Computer room

> x computer. x printouts. x disks.

> search disks. x screwdriver.

> take disks. yes. (You get one.)

> x cartridge. put cartridge in computer.

Computer room

> x chair. push chair e. push chair s.

Kitchen

If you stand on the untightened chair, you fall off and drop everything.

> x shelf. x box. take box. (Out of reach)

> turn chair. (This tightens it.)

> stand on chair. take box. (+1)

> stand. open box. x cornflakes.

> search cornflakes. (You find nothing.)

> eat cornflakes. (Too dry!)

> count cornflakes.

> x fridge. open it. (empty except for green yoghurt)

> x dishwasher. open it. take dish. x it.

> pour box in dish. (But dish is dirty!)

> s. (You vow never to open that door again.)

> e.

Utility room

> x machine. open it. (Can't.)

> open machine with screwdriver. x clothes.

> wear clothes. (+1) x me.

> x dryer. look in it. (Empty.)

> w. n. e.

Living Room

> x Suzy. (Robot with button.)

> push button. (You start a game of Onny-Offy.)

> x display.

   O . . .     1  2  3  4
   O O O O     5  6  7  8
   O . . O     9 10 11 12
   . O O O    13 14 15 16
   
> push 5
   . O . .     1  2  3  4
   O . O O     5  6  7  8
   . O . O     9 10 11 12
   . O O O    13 14 15 16
   
> push 11
   . O . .     1  2  3  4
   O O . .     5  6  7  8
   . . . .     9 10 11 12
   . . . .    13 14 15 16
> push 1
   . . . .     1  2  3  4
   . . . .     5  6  7  8
   . . . .     9 10 11 12
   . . . .    13 14 15 16

When you win: +1, spoon dropped, and Suzy shuts herself off.

> take spoon. x it.

> x bottles. x packets. x rolls.

> x tv. turn on tv. x string. turn off tv.

> x cone. take cone. (Don't want to.)

> w.

Hall

> open door. n.

Porch

> close door. (This also locks the door!)

> x birdtable. x bird. (Mechanical on sliding switch.)

> push bird. (It jerks its head upwards.)

> x thinking. x sitting. x digging. x laughing.

> n. (+1; dish cleaned by rain.)

Street (outside your house)

I haven't the slightest idea what SA4JW means. You do get a different response if you try using it before reading it here.

> x symbols. ("SA4JW")

> sa4jw. xyzzy.

> e. s.

Neighbours' porch

> x milk. x pad. x door. x letterbox.

> push doorbell. z. z. (Jeff answers the door.)

> x Jeff. show photos to Jeff. (+1)

> ask Jeff for milk. (+1; you get milk; he takes the photos)

> n. w. s.

Porch

Okay, so you need to solve a puzzle with the gnomes and the bird to unlock your front door. The gnomes can face in each of the four cardinal directions, and you have to find the right combo. To help you figure it out, whenever you turn a gnome, the bird will either jerk its head up or down.

Unfortunately, it's not as simple as "up" meaning "correct" and "down" meaning wrong. Nor are you looking for which gesture is the odd one out per gnome. Oh no, it's more tricky than that.

No, you're supposed to read the author's mind and understand that the gnome-code is a four-digit base-4 number where North means 0, East means 1, South means 2, and West means 3. And the bird's upward motion means the target four-digit number is higher than the current setting, and downward means the target number is lower.

So, it's vital that you solve this from left to right: from thinking gnome to laughing gnome.

Start by turning the thinking gnome four times, noting the bird's reactions:

> turn thinking. g. g. g.

From north clockwise to west, which elicited the last upward movement? That's the THINKING-DIRECTION.

> turn thinking THINKING-DIRECTION.

Do the same with the next two gnomes.

> turn sitting. g. g. g. turn sitting SITTING-DIRECTION.

> turn digging. g. g. g. turn digging DIGGING-DIRECTION.

Now it's just a matter of turning the laughing gnome until the door opens.

> turn laughing. (Repeat as necessary.)

The bird jerks around, and the door unlocks and opens.

> s.

Hall

> close door.

> pour cereal in bowl.

> open carton. pour milk in bowl.

> eat cornflakes. (+1)

You also find the magnet, and you need to vomit somewhere!

> x magnet.

> u.

Landing

> x door. x bolt.

> put magnet on door. move magnet. (+1; door unlocked)

> open door. s.

Bathroom

*** You have won ***

> amusing

Extras

Acknowledgements

From the game's Acknowledgements submenu:

I'd like to say a big "thank you!" to the following people:

• Graham Nelson, who wrote Inform, without which this game might never have been written;
• Gerry Kevin Wilson, for organising the competition, without which this game might never have been written;
• Volker Blasius and David Kinder, for maintaining the IF-Archive;
• Mary Kuhner and Douglas McNeil, for their excellent beta-testing;
• L. Ross Raszewski, whose library extensions I used for the menu and hints system; - everyone at rec.arts.int-fiction, for putting up with and answering a newbie's problems;
• everyone who reported the somewhat embarrassing milk/cornflakes/bowl bug;
• and finally, Joanne.

Amusing

Regarding the "PUT various objects IN COMPUTER" suggestion, the response is, if the computer is still working and the object is not the cartridge:
No matter how hard you try, you can't get the computer to play ...

• Conquest of Manila. (for the envelope)
• Dishbringer. (for the dish)
• Raiders of the Lost Card. (for the postcard)
• Screwdriver Slaughter VIII. (for the screwdriver)
• Sim Cow. (for the milk carton)
• Spoonmist. (for the spoon)
• anything. (for the box, clothes, photos)
• anything. No, I mean it; you've probably wiped the hard disk. (for the magnet)

Characters

• Suzy is a robot who likes to play Onny-Offy with you.
• Mr Jeff Farnham is your neighbour. He doesn't like you much, and he's probably not any friendlier after you blackmail him for some milk.
• A sleeping friend is in the bathroom. You trip over their body in the epilogue.

Mentioned:

• The postwoman wakes you up in the prologue by delivering the mail.
• Your friends partied in your house last night. And one of them is still here!
• Ms Christine Evans is Jeff's attractive secretary.
• A self-proclaimed medical expert can be seen on the TV.
• A burglar steals your Computer and smashes Suzy if you dare leave your front door open while off visiting Jeff.

Endings

• Real adventurers do not use such language
• if you swear.
• You have lost
• if you don't eat something by turn 300,
• or if you don't reach the bathroom soon enough after eating the milky cornflakes,
• or if your house is burgled (by leaving the front door open while getting the milk).
• You have won
• if you reach the bathroom soon enough after eating the milky cornflakes.

Also, within the Zkwork VII minigame, its endings are:

• You have died
• if you try to swim in the river.
• You have won
• if go north from "North of the Rhaneshka".

Inventory

• a small postcard. It's in the living room. Read it.
• an envelope containing some photos. The envelope is in the living room. Open it. Show the photos to Jeff.
• a dirty dish; later, a clean dish. The dish is in the dishwasher. Take it to the street; the rain cleans it. Pour the cereal into the bowl, then pour the milk into the bowl. If you also have the spoon, you can now eat the cereal.
• a screwdriver. Acquire it by searching the disks in the computer room. In the utility room, open the washing machine with it. Unhappily, you can't also open the bed's drawer with it.
• a box of cereal containing some cornflakes. It's on the high shelf in the kitchen. To reach it, first push the swivel chair from the computer room into the kitchen, turn the chair to stabilize it, then stand on the chair. Pour the cereal into the clean bowl, then add milk and eat the milky cornflakes with the spoon.
• your clothes. They're inside the washing machine in the utility room. Open the machine with the screwdriver. Wear the clothes. Now you can go outside.
• a spoon. Find it by playing Suzy's game in the living room. Eat the cereal with it when the cereal and milk are in the bowl.
• a milk carton containing some skimmed milk. It's on a pad on the neighbour's porch. To get the milk, push the doorbell, show the photos to Jeff, then ask Jeff for the milk. Pour the milk into the bowl after the cornflakes are there.
• a bar magnet. Obtain it by eating the cereal. Put it on the bathroom door, then move the magnet to unlock the door.
• an adventure game cartridge. Find it by trying to take the disks in the computer room, then say yes. Put the cartridge in the computer.

Score

• 1 point for hiding your shame. (Wearing the clothes.)
• 1 point for loving thy neighbour. (Showing Jeff the photos.)
• 1 point for loving thy neighbour's milk. (Asking Jeff for the milk.)
• 1 point for twisting and stretching. (Getting the cereal.)
• 1 point for Onny-Offying. (Winning Suzy's game.)
• 1 point for cleaning the bowl. (Cleaning the dish.)
• 1 point for cereal killing. (Eating breakfast.)
• 1 point for fiddling with the lock. (Unlocking the bathroom door.)
• 1 point for using the bowl. (Entering the bathroom.)
• 1 point for beating the Hybrid System. (Winning Zkwork VII.)

Rankings:

• you're Positively Starving. (0 points)
• you're Famished. (1 point)
• your Stomach's Rumbling. (2 points)
• you're Hungry. (3 points)
• you're Somewhat Peckish. (4 points)
• you're Filling Up. (5 points)
• you're Nearly Full. (6 points)
• you're Full. (7 points)
• you're Full-To-Bursting. (8 points)
• you're Stuffed. (9 points)
• you're Bloated. (10 points)

In the Zkwork VII game, the response to full score is:

You have so far scored 99 out of a possible 100 in 1024 turns, giving you the rank of Homecoming Hero.

You've scored points for: aiding the abbot; bashing the bishop; crushing the canopy; delivering the diamond; enchanting Elvis; flaming the forest; gnudging the gnu; hanging the hangman; injuring the idiot; jousting with Jasper; killing the klairvoyant; leaping to the ledge; mashing the monster; nailing the nail; observing the occult; peeling potatoes; quizzing the queen; roasting the rabbit; slapping the squirrel; testing testosterone; unseating the unbeliever; vaulting the vegetables; winding the wood; xyzzy; making the yak yawn; and zapping the ziggurat.

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;
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• and the invisible support of several anonymous patrons.