Key & Compass presents:
Goodbye Doggy World
by Meri and Mark

Goodbye Doggy World is a Z-Machine interactive fiction game written with Inform 5 or 6 (I'm not sure which) and is © 1997 by Meri and Mark. (Actually, I have doubts about the year too. VERSION shows the serial number 970918, but analyzing the storyfile with babel shows a different serial number: 010806, suggesting a 2001 release. And the file was added to IF Archive in 2017. So I don't know what's going on there.)

In this incomplete game, you are visiting a spooky pet graveyard featuring wandering fog, a crypt, three tombstones, sn old oak tree, and a gate. Unfortunately, you can't really accomplish anything but explore as best you can.

This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on Release 1 of the game.

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Map
Walkthrough
Extras
- Characters, Inventory
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Map

Walkthrough

CAUTION: This will be a very unsatisfying walkthrough, since I didn't figure out anything, really. I do believe the game is so unfinished that there isn't anything much to do except explore the graveyard.

south end of the graveyard

> x gate. open gate. (locked)

> n.

middle of the graveyard

> x fog. (drifts north)

> x bench. read carving. ("MS + MB")

> e.

east side of the graveyard

> x acorn. take it.

> x tree. x hole. x eyes.

> w. w.

west side of the graveyard

> x crypt. x door. x padlock. (doggy-head shape)

> e. n.

north end of the graveyard

> x tombstones. (depicts squirrel, horse, and doggy)

> take bone. x it. read inscription. ("Goodbye Doggy!")

> x path. x flowers.

And I'm stuck. The crypt, its door, and its padlock are not something you can unlock. The gate is also unable to be unlocked. You can't pick the flowers. Putting items into the tree's hole has no effect. You can't dig anywhere. There's just nothing more to do.

> quit

Extras

Characters

A dense fog drifts back and forth between the middle and north end of the graveyard. Is it sentient? Who knows, but I'm listing it here just in case.
Something with red eyes looks at you from the hole of the old oak tree. A demonic squirrel, maybe?

Also:

A squirrel, a horse, and a doggy are depicted on the gravestones at the north end of the graveyard.

Inventory

an acorn. It's at the east side of the graveyard.

CAUTION: The acorn is edible. If you eat it, it's gone.
I don't know what you're supposed to do with the acorn. I assume it has something to do with a squirrel.

a bone. It's at the north end of the graveyard.

Read the inscription on it.
Otherwise, I don't know what you're supposed to do with the bone. I assume it has something to do with a doggy.

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