In this fantasy game, you play as a broke guy who had a disappointing birthday. Instead of cash, all you got was an old toaster from your eccentric great great grandmother. You were hoping for money so you could make a homemade breakfast of eggs, bacon, toast, pancakes, and syrup for your girlfriend as you promised.
This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on Release 0 of the game.
Note that you can actually reach any section from any other section as long as you have the toaster, a slice of bread, and something to plug the toaster into. But if you're following my walkthrough, you visit the sections in the order shown.
Walkthrough
Note: You can REMEMBER things. And you can die without warning.
Your Living Room
> open closet. x broom.("Ezlwot")
> take broom. ezlwot.(It's flies!)
> remember grandmother.(She used to live in Salem.)
> remember Guile. remember Beth. remember broom.
There's nothing of interest in your bedroom or bathroom to the south; ignore them.
> e.
Your Kitchen
> x Beth. open breadbox. take bread.
> x fridge. open it. look in it. close it.
> x toaster. x dial. take toaster.
Okay, I need to explain how this toaster works. It does make toast, but when the toast pops, you'll be teleported somewhere else based on the dial setting. (But you can't teleport to your current scenario.) To use the toaster, you need bread and a working outlet.
I strongly suggest carrying the toaster while using it. While the toaster will teleport itself after you, the delay and subsequent acquistion of the toaster can be awkward. Carrying the toaster avoids this awkwardness.
> plug in toaster. put bread in toaster.
> turn dial to black. push lever. z. z. z. z.
When the toast pops, you teleport to...
Wizards Laboratory
You briefly meet an old man-in-blue who decides you're harmless then disappears.
> x frame.(It has the same settings as your toaster.)
> x paper.(It's a recipe for Mortal Pancakes.)
> x blinder. x cup.
> take blinder, cup, bread.
Play around a bit with the frame:
> turn frame to dark. x frame. x cab.
> turn frame to medium. x frame. x lockers.
> turn frame to light. x frame. x hole.
> turn frame to raw. x frame.
Time to get outta here.
> turn frame to light. plug in toaster.
> turn toaster dial to dark. put bread in toaster.
> push lever. z. z. z.
Maxxio's Pizza Palace/Closed Garage: Basement
> x headlight. take it.
> open cab. take all from cab. x syrup. close cab.
> x machine. x outlet.
> plug in toaster. put bread in toaster.
> turn dial to medium. push lever. z. z.
Classroom
> x desk. read graffiti.(ref to locker 531 and sunglasses)
> x outlet. e.
Soixxam Elementary School (Hallway)
> x sign. x lockers.
> open locker 531. take sunglasses.
> n.
Darkness / stairs
> turn on headlight. d.
school basement
> turn on power. turn off headlight. u. u. w.
Kitchen
> open cabinets. take all from cabinet. x bacon.
> e. d. s. w.
Classroom
> plug in toaster. put bread in toaster.
> turn dial to light. wear sunglasses. push lever. z.
Cavern Kitchen
CAUTION: Don't examine Medusa unless she's a stone statue!
> show toaster to Medusa.(She stones herself.)
> x Medusa. take all from counter. x eggs.
> n.
Cavern Living Room
> throw blinder at Cy.(He's no longer a threat.)
> n.
Cave Tunnel (South of Chasm)
The game doesn't understand RIDE as a command verb.
> get on broom. ezlwot.(The broom is now carrying you around.)
> n.
Over Chasm
> d.(You can't make the broom go down. Huh.)
> n.
Cave Tunnel (North of Chasm)
> n.
Lumionous Salt Beds
> x salt. take salt.
> put salt in cup. x pancakes.
> s. s.
Over Chasm
Oh wait. What if we do this?
> ezlwot.(The broom descends into...)
Darkness / Bottom of Chasm
> turn on headlight.
> plug in toaster. put bread in toaster.
> turn dial to raw. push lever.
Your Living Room
> e.
Your Kitchen
> put eggs on plate.(+20)
> put bacon on plate.(+20)
> put pancakes on plate.(+20)
> put syrup on plate.(+20)
> take toast. put toast on plate.(+20)
*** You have won ***
Extras
Characters
Beth is your girlfriend and you want to bring your relationship with her to a new level.
A man-in-blue, obviously a wizard, is in his laboratory.
Worms in the rock pit generate a constant electrical charge.
Medusa is an attractive woman with snakes on her head instead of hair. Unfortunately, anyone looking at her turns into a stone statue of themselves.
A Cyclops (named Cy?) lives with Medusa. He's big and has an axe.
Mentioned:
Your eccentric great great grandmother gave you a toaster for your birthday. In a previous year, she gave you a broom.
Your grandmother's black cat is named Guile. It barks instead of meows.
Someone named Maxxio owns a pizza palour. You hear voices upstairs from the basement.
Pinky Kim is the child who wrote the poem "The Yarn of Ciron Deeddoog" on the classroom desk.
Mr. Stud-Muffin is the coolest kid in the school. That's probably not his real name.
Wade is someone that neither the schoolkids nor the wizard likes. Don't be a Wade.
Endings
You have died
if you visit Medusa and you're not wearing the sunglasses,
or if you explicitly look at Medusa even if you're wearing the sunglasses,
or if the Cyclops kills you.
You have won
if you give all five breakfast foods to Beth.
Inventory
your broom. It's inside your living room's closet. Examine it to learn the magic word "ezlwot". Get on the broom to ride it and say ezlwot to make it fly (or make it stop flying). Use the broom to cross the chasm or descend into it.
a shiny toaster. It's in your kitchen. It has a lever, a dial with five settings, a power cord, and is linked personally to you. To use the toaster, you must plug the toaster into a working outlet, put a slice of bread in the toaster, turn the dial to the desired setting, push the lever, then wait a variable number of turns.
Making black toast teleports you to the wizard's laboratory four turns after pushing the lever.
Making dark toast teleports you to the garage basement three turns after pushing the lever.
Making medium toast teleports you to the classroom two turns after pushing the lever.
Making light toast teleports you to Medusa's cavern kitchen one turn after pushing the lever.
Making raw toast teleports you to your living room immediately after pushing the lever.
Interestingly, you cannot use the toaster if the dial's setting corresponds to the current physical setting. For example, you cannot make raw toast in your own kitchen.
Normal power outlets are in your kitchen, the garage basement, and the classroom; however, you'll need to restore the school's power before the classroom outlet will function.
The bottom of the chasm has a hole with electric worms that you can use as an outlet there. And by turning the frame dial in the wizard's laboratory to "light", you can use the electric hole there as well.
Show the toaster to Medusa to turn her to stone.
five pieces of bread. Put them in the toaster and make toast to teleport to somewhere else.
a piece of bread. It's in the breadbox in your kitchen.
a piece of bread. It's on the work bench in the wizard's laboratory.
a piece of bread. It's in the yellow taxicab/refrigerator in Maxxio's basement.
a piece of bread. It's in the school kitchen's cabinet.
a piece of bread. It's on the counter top in the cavern kitchen.
a cup of powder. It's on the bench in the wizard's laboratory. Put luminious salt in the cup to create pancakes.
a one-eyed blinder. It's in the wizard's laboratory. Throw it at the Cyclops to blind him.
a receipe paper. It's on the bench in the wizard's laboratory. Read it. It tells you that adding luminous salt to the cup of powder will create pancakes.
a headlight/car battery contraption. It's in Maxxio's basement. Turn it on to see in dark places (the school and the bottom of the chasm).
a bottle of syrup. It's in the yellow taxicab/refrigerator in Maxxio's basement. In your kitchen, put the syrup on Beth's plate.
a pair of dark sunglasses. It's in locker 531 in the school hallway. Put them on just before making light toast so you're not immediately killed by looking at Medusa.
a strips of bacon. It's in the school kitchen's cabinet. In your kitchen, put the bacon on Beth's plate.
a bowl of scrambled eggs. It's on the counter top in the cavern kitchen. In your kitchen, put the eggs on Beth's plate.
a handful of luminous salt. It's in the luminous salt beds. Put it in the cup of powder to create pancakes.
some pancakes. Create them by putting some luminous salt into the cup of powder. In your kitchen, put the pancakes on Beth's plate.
a piece of toast (burnt black or dark brown). It's in your kitchen after you've used your toaster there. Put the toast on Beth's plate.
Score
You have so far scored your-score out of a possible 100, in several turns.
−999 points for making the game unwinnable.
20 points for putting scrambled eggs on Beth's plate.