Key & Compass presents:
Intro to Jabberwocky
by Gregory Weir

• Walkthrough
• Extras
  • Characters, Credits, Inventory, Score
• Thank You to my Patreon supporters
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Walkthrough

Shore of the Wabe

> x tablet. (You take it.)

> x house. x enclosure. x structure. x mist.

> x sun. x grass. listen.

> n.

Borogove Enclosure

> x tablet. (New phrase added: "were the borogoves".)

> x wire. x posts. x sand.

> x paper. take paper. (Not large enough to bother with.)

> x borogoves. x hurt borogove. take it. (Too far.)

> s. s.

Tove Corral

> x tablet. (New: "and the slithy toves")

> take skimmer. x it.

> x toves. (They're having trouble breathing.)

> x mist. (Stained brown under the catwalk.)

> x stain. x catwalk.

> look under catwalk. x scales. (They're sharp.)

> take scales. x tablet. ("Did gyre and gimble")

> open gate. x tablet. ("in the wabe")

> x door. x latch.

> n. n.

Borogove Enclosure

> skim sand. (Boxquote from "The Walrus and the Carpenter".)

> xyzzy. (Boxquote from Alice.)

> take borogove with skimmer. (The net is too small for that.)

> s. e.

In Front of House

> x house. x flowers.

> ne.

North of House

> x pen. x scratches. look in pen.

> x blue rath. (Normally wary, she's panicking.)

> x red rath. (Normally nice, he's panicking.)

> x rope. x hook. x toy.

> open pen. in. x tablet. ("and the mome raths")

> take toy. give toy to red. (He calms down.)

> take hook.

> take blue. (You need a tool.)

> take blue with skimmer. (It's too long.)

> unscrew net.

> take blue with net. (She calms down.)

> x tablet. ("outgrabe")

> out. close pen.

> sw. se.

South of House

> x shed. x weeds. x window. in.

> x tool box. open it.

> x screwdriver. x hammer. x pipe wrench. x file.

> x feed. open it. (You'll need to cut it open.)

> take box. take feed.

> out. nw. w. n.

Borogove Enclosure

> put hook on pole. (Creates a gaff.)

> take hurt with gaff. (It brings it closer, but you'll need something shorter now.)

> cut bag with scales.

> feed borogoves with food.

> take hurt. (Box quote shows completed first stanza of Jabberwocky.)

> x tablet. (Blank lines for the second stanza.)

> s. e. e.

*** To be continued... ***

Unfortunately, this game was not continued. This intro is all that we got.

Extras

Characters

• Some toves are having trouble breathing in the Tove Corral. More toves can be heard far off to the west in the wabe.
• Some borogoves are very agitated in the Borogove Enclosure.
• A hurt borogove in dying and bleeding in the Borogove Enclosure. It's out of reach, but you need to remove it.
• A red mome rath is flying around in a blind panic in the rath pen. Red is a male rath.
• A blue mome rath is flying around in a blind panic in the rath pen. Blue is a female rath and less affectionate than her brother Red.

Note that the box quotes are by the Red Queen, The Walrus and the Carpenter, and Alice.

Also, the end text says that in the full game, you will also meet your father, a cat, a bird, a beast, three aspects of Lewis Carroll, and the Jabberwock.

Credits

This game was written in Inform by Gregory Weir. It is my first game, and this intro was released for the 2004 IntroComp.

Thanks to my great beta-testers: Don Weir, Xenia Kramida, Niall Richard Murphy, Robert DeFord, Greg Boettcher, Jessica Knoch, Cedric Knight, Graham Holden, Ross Presser, and Tommy Herbert.

The game is based on the poem "Jabberwocky", by Lewis Carroll, aka Rev. Charles Dodgson. The poem was originally released on its own, and was then incorporated into Through the Looking Glass. In that book, Humpty-Dumpty gave his own interpretation of the poem in that novel, but who's about to listen to an unstable old egg?

A short bibliography:
The Annotated Alice   Gardner, Martin (editor). W.W. Norton & Company, 2000.
Lewis Carroll   Kelly, Richard. G.K. Hall & Co., 1977.
Lewis Carroll: A Portrait With Background   Thomas, Donald. John Murray Ltd., 1996.
Most of the rest of the sources used to create this work can be found at http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Literature/Authors/C/Carroll,_Lewis/ .

Please enjoy. To contact the author, write old-email-address-omitted.

Inventory

• a worn tablet. It's at the Shore of the Wabe. Take it and examine it. It has the first two words of the first stanza of the poem Jabberwocky. As you progress through the game, more of the poem will be filled in. Completing the poem is your goal in this game, but only the first stanza is implemented.
• a skimmer. It's in the Tove Corral. You can try to skim the sand in the Borogove Enclosure, but it doesn't help you much. Instead, unscrew the skimmer to get a metal pole and a net attachment.
• some strange scales. Find them by looking under the catwalk in the Tove Corral. Take them to restore the toves to health. Later, cut the bag of borogove feed with the scales to open the bag.
• Red's toy. It's on a hook inside the rath pen, North of House. Give the toy to the red rath to calm him down.
• a hook attachment. It's in the rath pen, North of House. Put it on the metal pole to create a gaff.
• a metal pole. Obtain it by unscrewing the skimmer into two parts: a metal pole and a net attachment. Put the hook attachment on the pole to create a gaff.
• a net attachment. Obtain it by unscrewing the skimmer into two parts: a metal pole and a net attachment. In the rath pen, North of House, take the blue rath with the net attachment to calm her down.
• a tool box. It's in the old shed, South of House. Open it. It contains four tools: a screwdriver, a hammer, a pipe wrench, and a file. Unfortunately, you won't be using any of them in this introduction.
• a screwdriver. It's in the tool box. You don't need it.
• a hammer. It's in the tool box. You don't need it.
• a pipe wrench. It's in the tool box. You don't need it.
• a file. It's in the tool box. You don't need it.
• a bag of borogove feed. It's in the old shed, South of House. Open the bag by cutting it with the scales. After you've pulled the hurt borogove closer to you with the gaff, feed the borogoves in the Borogove Enclosure with the food to distract them. You won't be willing to feed them except as a distraction.
• a gaff. Create it by putting the hook attachment onto the metal pole. In the Borogove Enclosure, take the hurt borogove with the gaff to bring it closer to you.

Score

There is no score in this story, but the tablet filling up with text from the poem effectively fulfills the same function:

• 'Twas brillig, | The tablet starts with this.
• and the slithy toves | Awarded when you first enter the tove corral.
• Did gyre and gimble | Awarded when you take the scales in the corral.
• in the wabe: | Awarded when you open the corral gate.
• All mimsy | Awarded when you take the hurt borogove.
• were the borogoves, | Awarded when you first enter the borogove enclosure.
• and the mome raths | Awarded when you first enter the rath pen.
• outgrabe. | Awarded when both raths are calm.

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