Key & Compass presents:
I Have No Verbs, and I Must
by Dissolved

• Map
• Walkthrough
• Extras
  • Characters
• Thank You to my Patreon supporters
• Support me on Ko-Fi
• External links:
  • This game at Homepage, IFDB, and IFWiki.
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Map

• A map for this very linear game is quite pointless. None of the locations have any standard exits, and only one command moves you from one location to the next. But I like making maps, so you get one regardless.

Walkthrough

Something Horrible

In this game, you have no inventory and no time to do anything but one command that progresses the story. Not only is every scenery object unimportant, so are the monsters about to kill you.

> x beast. (no time for that!)

*** What's eating you? ***

> undo

> x me. (This command seems to be the only one that's not part of the main flow of the story.)

*** Following in Narcissus' footsteps, are you? ***

> undo

> scream

A Bubbling Pit

> z.

*** Drowning your sorrow? ***

> undo

> scream

The Mineshaft Gap

> z.

*** How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Zombie ***

> undo

> scream

Outside a Red House

> z.

*** You have a bright career ahead of you in fast monster food. ***

> undo

> scream

A Bear and A Hard Place

> z.

*** A fine repast for a bear, a not-so-fine present for you ***

> undo

> scream

An Unbridgable Chasm

> z.

*** Caution: Slippery When Stone ***

> undo

> scream

A Bleeding Artery of Oil

> z.

*** Roadkill is flourishing this year ***

> undo

> scream

Needs Must When The Devil Drives

> z.

*** Cheer up, you've done a great job clearing up stereotypes about hitchhikers ***

> undo

> scream

The Lovers (VI)

> z.

*** Your heart out, six letters ***

> undo

> scream

*** Words fail you ***

Extras

Characters

• You don't know what you are. You could be a man or a pile of hornets or a woman or a gelatinous blob.
• A slathering beast is a rapidly-approaching threat in the ruins of your living room. It's some sort of huge bipedal millipede.
• A chaos monster with a sea of eyes and tentacles and other unspecified body parts may drag you under a bubbling pit of foul-smelling ichor and obliterate you.
• A zombified miner equipped with a pneumatic drill threatens to both drill and devour you.
• A dragon living in a once-white house may flame-broil you to cure its indigestion.
• A bear in a rocky wood wants to butcher you with its claws.
• A driver with a collection of hunting knives regards you with a twitchy smile.
• Your lover attempts to calm your fears with eir touch, but your heart is wordlessly breaking.

Found dead:

• A pile of adventurer corpses lie outside the once-white house. Some are victims of melee, some are char-grilled.

Mentioned:

• Tchaikovsky wrote The Nutcracker Suite.
• Atlas is a Titan in Greek myth. He was condemned by Zeus to hold the world on his shoulders for eternity.

Thank You to my Patreon supporters

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