Key & Compass presents:
Guilded Youth
by Jim Munroe

• Map
• Walkthrough
• Extras
  • Artwork, Characters, Credits, Inventory
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Map

Walkthrough

This game is designed to be merciful; you can't mess it up. You also cannot SAVE your game; the author felt you should never need to.

If you've played the game before and want to see all four endings, or give yourself more turns to interact with the Dining Room scene, type SKIPTHRU as your first command to jump to when you and Paula seat yourselves in the Dining Room.

Your Front Porch

> e.

End of the Street

> x forest. e.

The Woods

> x moon. e.

The Field

> x developement. e.

In Front of the Manor

> n.

Portico of the Manor

> x paper. (manor to be demolished in three days)

> x planks.

> s. ne.

Outside the Coachhouse

> n.

Inside the Coachhouse

> x corner. take magazine. read it.

> s.

Outside the Coachhouse

>> SPACE

In Front of the Manor

> n.

Portico of the Manor

> n. (Harry uses a crowbar; you hear a clink and rustle from inside.)

Inside the Manor

> x shapes. (unvaluable furniture)

> e. (You pull out and drop the doorknob.)

> x knob. take it.

> x staircase. x hole. (The rail is sturdy, but not enough to bet your life on.)

> w.

Hallway

> x wallpaper.

> w. (You hear voices, grab a fork, then retreat.)

In Front of the Manor

Time to head home.

> x fork. w.

>> SPACE

Your Front Porch

> x Ryan. e. e. e. e.

In Front of the Manor

> x Chris. n.

Portico of the Manor

> n.

Inside the Manor

> e. (Ryan won't pick a lock with Chris watching.)

> x hole. (Chris uses gymnastics to get up to the second floor.)

> e.

Study

> x bookshelves. x desk.

> x inkwell. (You acquire a letter opener.)

> x opener.

> w.

Inside the Manor

> w. (Ryan abandons the mission.)

Hallway

> w.

You glimpse a long haired oen, a guy in a suit jacket, two or three more, setting up the table? Chris pulls you back.

> listen. listen.

Chris urges you to get out; return with more people.

> e. s. s.

In Front of the Manor

Chris kneels to tie her shoe and you see gold gleam in her pocket.

> take gold.

> kiss Chris.

She lets you, but finds the opener. She lets you keep both the opener and watch for now, but runs off west.

> w.

>> SPACE

The Field

> x backpack. e.

In Front of the Manor

> n. n.

Inside the Manor

> w. (no: Max wants to find the wine cellar.)

> x hole. (Max ties a rope to the banister.)

> d. (Max climbs down.)

You and Paula hear a laugh and cutlery to the west.

> w. (Paula boldly takes you into...)

Dining Room

Paula seats herself and you, then grabs a drumstick.

> x people. (Paula tells Erik that he stole her idea and didn't invite her.)

> x candelabra. (unsteady)

Max arrives with wine bottles.

> x bird.

Paula grabs the wine bottles from Max's hands; he runs away.

> eat bird. (no)

She splashes wine around. The candelabra sways.

> x bottle.

> take it.

The inevitable fire happens. You run home.

(three weeks later)

> login

In Front of the Manor

> x tape. ne. n.

Inside the Coachhouse

You meet your chosen friend. Each friend's meeting goes differently.

>> SPACE

The epilogue tells you of a second encounter with the same friend, years later. Then the game concludes with the game title and terse credits.

Don't forget that if you use the special SKIPTHRU command as your first command in the game, you skip through to the Dining Room scene and can replay the alternate endings from there.

Extras

Artwork

This game uses two styles of artwork to represent the online BBS guild and the real world. Here are a couple examples of how people and inventory items were represented; there are more examples in the game itself, including a couple location graphics.

Also, the words "GUILDED YOUTH" at game's end is particularly awesome:

Characters

• Tony the Thief is the player character. In real life, he is also a thief who longs to pick up things wherever he goes. Later in life, he is an accomplished pickpocket and shoplifter, at the very least.
• Harry the Barbarian is the strong, but not too bright character. He's frequently banished from the Adventurers' Lounge. In real life, he has a crowbar.
• Paula the Mage, in real life, is a goth girl, trans, bold, and one of the weirdest people you've ever met.
• Ryan the Bard, in real life, is a scaredy-cat and has "band practice", but he can also sometimes pick locks.
• Maximus the Cleric (or Max for short), in real life, is a pimply-faced nerd who likes wine and accounting.
• Chris the Paladin, in real life, is a girl, a gymnast, has morals, but she also loves schemes and adventures.
• The Freak Clique followed through on Paula's idea of having fancy dinner parties in the the abandoned manor, but they didn't invite her. Their leader's name is Erik. There's also a goth girl, a thin tattooed girl, and a dreadlocked guy.

Credits

This is the response to CREDITS:

Jim Munroe wrote and designed Guilded Youth. His other games are here. Art and animation by Matt Hammill. Sound by Troy Morrissey. It uses the marvellous Vorple JavaScript user interface library by Juhana Leinonen, who also helped with coding. A bare-bones prototype was made during Toronto Game Jam 2012, and the first version was publicly released for the Interactive Fiction Competition 2012 where it placed 3rd. This is the post-Comp release. Beta testers: Ori Avtalion, Adam Axbey, Matthew Bin, Raigan Burns, Jake Eakle, David Faulkner, Mark Tilford & Wiley Wiggins. Thanks also to the Inform 7 team and the interactive fiction community.

Inventory

• map. It's in the Adventurers' Lounge.
• You hardly need it. The manor is due east from your home; you can't miss it.
• forbidden tome. Find it inside the coachhouse by examining the corner.
• In the Adventurers' Lounge, give the tome to Harry the Barbarian; he joins your party.
• doorknob. Inside the manor, it falls to the floor when you try to go through the east door there.
• In the Adventurers' Lounge, give the knob to Ryan the Bard; he joins your party.
• fork. In the manor's hallway, you acquire the fork when you first attempt to go west from there.
• In the Adventurers' Lounge, give the fork to Chris the Paladin; Chris joins your party.
• letter opener. In the study, you acquire the opener when you examine the desk's inkwell.
• In the Adventurers' Lounge, give the opener to Paula; she joins your party.
• pocket watch. Chris the Paladin has it after she visits the manor's upstairs.
• At the front of the manor, when Chris bends over to retie her shoe, you see a gold glint in her pocket. Take the gold to acquire the watch. If you don't grab it then, it falls to the ground when she leaves, so you can just pick it up.
• In the Adventurers' Lounge, give the watch to Maximus the Cleric; he joins your party.
• wine bottle. In the dining room, Paula grabs the bottle from Max when he briefly enters there, then Paula drops the bottle soon afterwards. Take it.
• If you fail to take the bottle explicitly, the game will automatically have you grab it when the fire starts.
• In the Adventurers' Lounge, give the bottle to Chris, Paula, Ryan, or Max. This decision decides how the game will end.

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