The Mean Story is a Z-machine interactive fiction game written with Inform 7 and is © 2011 by Bob Reeves. Also known as PLSG #5 (where PLSG means Painless Little Stupid Games), this game was originally written in ALAN 2 and published in 1999; it was later ported to Inform 7 and the Z-machine.
In this small offensive game featuring the disabled, you play as an American stranded in a third-world country after a wild weekend. To get a bus ticket home, you must either enslave yourself or someone else.
Content warnings: Offensive language, Cruelty.
This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on Release 1 of the game.
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Notes:
The Blackest Of Black Markets In The Third (Or Indeed Any Other) World
> x hustler.
> buy ticket. (He suggests bringing someone whom he can enslave.)
> w.
The Corner Of The Street
The spaz is only here for two turns, so you must act quickly.
> guide spaz to blind man.
The Blackest Of Black Markets In The Third (Or Indeed Any Other) World
The cane and spaz leave the game.
> guide blind man to wheelchair.
The Corner Of The Street
The blind man, cripple, and wheelchair leave the game. A deaf woman arrives.
> guide woman to hustler.
*** You must be proud of yourself. ***
> amusing
After you win, type AMUSING to open the following menus:
- Did you ever try ...
... not being amused by a story like this in the first place?
Type ABOUT then select the first menu-item to get the discredits:
George and Lee, two highschool friends of mine, used to go on and on about all the terrible things they did to variously disabled people. We've all grown since high school. You'd think. That I thought these scenarios would make a funny game says rather sad things about me (and you, if you agree).
You never acquire any inventory items in this game. You presumably get the bus ticket seen at the black market, but by then, the game's over.
The response to SCORE is:
You have so far scored 0 out of a possible 0, in X turns.
What, you expected some POINTS for this?
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