Key & Compass presents:
Light Of My Stomach
by David Fletcher

This is an unusual story where you play as the primary lightbulb of the John Quincy Adams Gastrodome, but also as Bob Bobkins, competative eater. What secrets is Garry, Bob's opponent in the eating contest, hiding?

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

Walkthrough
Extras
- Characters, Inventory
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Walkthrough

Darkness

You are playing as a lightbulb.

> x me. i. x power. turn on.

Gastrodrome

Now you're playing as Bob Bobkins.

> x me. x garry. x mayor. x crowd.

The contest begins in earnest. Random foods are being given to both you and Garry. Ignore his foods and eat yours repeatedly:

> eat YOUR-FIRST-FOOD.

> eat YOUR-SECOND-FOOD.

> eat YOUR-THIRD-FOOD.

> eat YOUR-FOURTH-FOOD.

> eat YOUR-FIFTH-FOOD.

> eat YOUR-SIXTH-FOOD. (You can't. You're full.)

> z. x neck. x light.

Garry is a robot! Stop him!

> out.

Downtown

> take booth.

> throw booth at garry —or— hit garry with booth.

Garry can't kill you! He loves you! Follow him!

> e.

Alley

> x walls. x trash. take paper. x paper. read poem.

> bibblebake. in.

Secret Room

Asking Garry about the reactor is the trigger for the end of this scene.

> x garry. ask garry about poem. ask garry about garry.

> ask garry about light. ask garry about reactor.

Darkness

You are again the lightbulb.

> x me. x power. turn on.

*** Competative eating is saved! ***

Extras

Characters

A lightbulb is the initial and last protagonist in the game. Its function is to light up the John Quincy Adams Gastrodome.
Bob Bobkins is the second protagonist in the game. He's a competative eater.
Garry Garrison is Bob's opponent in the eating contest but Garry has a few secrets.
The mayor of Quincy officiates the eating contest.
The contest officals bring dishes of food to Bob and Garry during the contest.
A crowd watches the contest, cheering them on.

Inventory

some RANDOM-FOOD. During the eating contest, you will be given random food items by the contest officials. You should eat it promptly. Once you can't eat any more, wait, and you'll be prompted to examine Garry's neck. Food item names are built up from three parts: a cooking-style adjective, a country adjective. and a main ingredient noun.

Part 1: baked, boiled, deep-fried, grilled, mashed, pan-fried, roasted, sauteed, seared, steamed.
Part 2: Congolese, Faroese, Hungarian, Liberian, Mongolian, Paraguayan, Saharan, Siberian, Tierra del Fuegan, Uzbekistani, Venezuelan.
Part 3: asparagus, carrot, leopard, lettuce, mango, ocelot, okapi, platypus, porpoise, rhinoceros, sausage, sloth, vulture.

a phone booth. It's at Downtown. Take it and throw it at Garry, or just hit him with it.
a piece of paper. Find it by examining the trash in the Alley. Read the poem on the paper to learn the magic word "bibblebake".

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