Key & Compass presents:
LiveJoseph
by Joseph Miller

• Map of Joseph's apartment
• Walkthrough
• Extras
  • Characters, Inventory, Score
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Map of Joseph's apartment

Walkthrough

Living Room

Most of the gameplay is just asking Joseph here about various topics. Unfortunately, apart from the suggested topic "work", you'll just have to guess what those topics are.

Accordingly, I suggest touring his entire apartment first for clues, then return here for all the conversation. Okay?

> notify on.

> x me. i. (nothing)

> x Joseph. x recliner. x table. x couch. (Nothing special about any of them.)

> take Kindle. x it.

> e.

Dining Room

> x hutch. x cabinets. x collection.

> x Twisty. (+1)

> score. take Twisty.

> x camera. take it.

> s.

Kitchen

> x beets. take beets. eat beets. (+1)

> n. e.

Bathroom

> x toilet. x sink.

> sit on toilet. poop. pee.

> flush toilet. wash hands.

> w. n.

Bedroom

Nothing implemented in this room as all. Oh well.

> s. w.

Living Room

> sit on couch.

First, ask all about Joseph's work.

> ask Joseph about work. (+1)

> ask Joseph about Conness. (+1)

> ask Joseph about mental health. (+1)

> ask Joseph about client. (+1)

> ask Joseph about treatment. (+1)

> ask Joseph about interventions. (+1)

> ask Joseph about classroom. (+1)

> ask Joseph about boss. (+1)

> ask Joseph about coworker. (+1)

Next, ask all about Joseph's family.

> ask Joseph about house. (+1)

> ask Joseph about mom. (+1)

> ask Joseph about Mark. (+1)

> ask Joseph about rugs. (+1)

> ask Joseph about dad. (+1)

> ask Joseph about Hannah. (+1)

> ask Joseph about hospital. (+1)

Now ask about Magic: The Gathering, which I don't think is clued anywhere, but I asked about "game" and lucked into it.

> ask Joseph about Magic. (+1)

> ask Joseph about season. (+1)

> ask Joseph about game. (+1)

The topic well is running dry, but there's a few more topics left.

> ask Joseph about Kindle. (+1)

> ask Joseph about Jews —or— ask Joseph about sex. (+1)

> ask Joseph about weather. (+1)

There is no ending to this game. You can't leave the apartment or say goodbye, and the game does nothing special when you have all the points. So just quit the game when you're done with it.

> quit.

Extras

Characters

• Joseph Miller, the author of this game, is the only non-player character. You're in his apartment, and he's willing to answer questions about himself.

Nentioned:

• Hannah is Joseph's wife, I think? The game isn't as explicit about who Hannah is as it could be. She works at a hospital.
• Mike MacCawley is Joseph's supervisor.
• Brittany is Joseph's coworker.
• Joseph's mom has an old house in St. Paul.
• Joseph's stepfather, Mark Keljik, has a rug shop in Minneapolis.
• Joseph's dad continues to work on his music.
• Joseph's stepmother, Jane, is a teacher.
• Joseph's brother is nine years old.
• Joseph's sister is sixteen.
• Alec Jenkins-White and Kjersti Campbell are a married couple who are friends of Joseph's.
• Francis Jenkins-White is, I guess, Alec's brother?
• The Conness are an extremely nice family that Joseph visits often.
• Clients can't be discussed.
• David and Tessa are probably the testers of this game, I'm guessing. Joseph calls you David or Tessa when you ask him about Jews or sex.

Inventory

• a Kindle. It's on the coffee table in the living room.
• Ask Joseph about it. But you can't really do anything with the Kindle itself but take and examine it.
• Twisty Little Passages. It's in the dining room's cabinets.
• Examine or read it to get a point.
• a camera. It's on the dining room table.
• Like the Kindle, you can't use the camera in any way.
• some beets. They're in the kitchen.
• Eat them for a point.
• Optionally, after eating the beets in the kitchen, if you go to the bathroom, sit on the toilet, and poop, you're told that your poop is red.

Score

The response to SCORE is:

You have so far scored your-score out of a possible 24, in several turns.

Points are awarded as follows:

• 1 point for examining Twisty Little Passages.
• 1 point for eating the beets.
• 1 point for asking Joseph about work.
• 1 point for asking Joseph about Conness.
• 1 point for asking Joseph about mental health or Fraser School.
• 1 point for asking Joseph about client.
• 1 point for asking Joseph about treatment.
• 1 point for asking Joseph about interventions or strategies.
• 1 point for asking Joseph about classroom.
• 1 point for asking Joseph about boss.
• 1 point for asking Joseph about coworker.
• 1 point for asking Joseph about house.
• 1 point for asking Joseph about mom.
• 1 point for asking Joseph about Mark.
• 1 point for asking Joseph about rugs.
• 1 point for asking Joseph about dad.
• 1 point for asking Joseph about Hannah.
• 1 point for asking Joseph about hospital or internship.
• 1 point for asking Joseph about Magic or library.
• 1 point for asking Joseph about season.
• 1 point for asking Joseph about game.
• 1 point for asking Joseph about Kindle.
• 1 point for asking Joseph about Jews or sex.
• 1 point for asking Joseph about weather.

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