Key & Compass presents:
Molly and the Butter Thieves
by "Cosmic Hamster"

• Map
• Walkthrough
• Alternate Endings
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Map

Walkthrough

Kitchen

New commands for this game: FOLLOW [someone], STOP FOLLOWING [someone], EXITS, and KEYWORDS.

> help. about. credits.

While waiting for the theft to occur, examine stuff.

> x butter. x poker. x door. x light. x me.

Molly automatically puts down the poker. She's right; you won't need it.

> e.

Yard

The thief is moving slowly, but you can't waste too much time.

> take pebbles. x pump. e.

Forest Stream

Note how the lights stay away from the stream.

> drop pebble. x stream. s.

Hollow Log

> x log. se.

Forest Slope

> e.

Bog

> x castle. x bridge.

A new cluster of lights appears.

> x cluster. e. (The cluster of lights talks to you.)

To advance a conversation, type in a highlighted keyword.

> form. converge. banquet.

She leaves, telling you to get a fairy flower.

> e. (You fall into the mud.)

> stand. touch bridge. nw.

Cave

> x vines. x ledge. sit on ledge. (You get a memory.)

> take flower. smell it. stand. se.

Another memory: Fairies don't like rain.

Bog

> touch bridge. e.

Banquet Hall

If you choose to ignore Tom, the entire conversation with him is skipped.

> mind. paper. wine. x Tom. forget.

Tom leaves, and a server approaches. If you decline the goblet, all the fairies are shocked and the server takes it away.

> x server. thank you.

> x table. x letter. read it. x goblet.

> pour wine. drop goblet.

> n.

Scullery

> x dish. take it. x dishes.

> x channel. (Yet more evidence of water aversion.)

> w.

Bog

> w. (Fairies are now chasing you!)

Forest Slope

A new memory on how to be safe from fairies: Get a dewleaf (which grows near running water), wet it, and throw it outside your home.

> nw. n.

Forest Stream

> x bush. take leaf. put leaf in stream. w.

Yard

Instead of dipping the leaf in the stream, you may dip it in the puddle that the pump makes.

> pump pump. x puddle. throw leaf.

*** YOU HAVE WON ***

Alternate Endings

• YOU ARE UTTERLY LOST IN THE FOREST if you wander off the map in the forest. It's assumed that you didn't mark your trail with the pebbles.
• YOU HAVE SCARED AWAY THE THIEF AND NOW YOUR FANCY BUTTER DISH IS GONE FOREVER happens if you try to take the dish before the dish crosses over the bridge into the castle. Another action that scares them is pumping the water pump while they're in the yard.
• YOU ARE TRAPPED IN THE FAIRY REALM UNTIL THE END OF TIME is your fate if you drink the wine once and then attempt to leave the castle.
• YOU ARE TRAPPED IN OBLIVION if you are so rash as to drink the wine twice.
• THE FAIRIES HAVE STOLEN BACK THE DISH if you don't throw the wet dewleaf in your yard in time.
• YOU ARE NOW THE PROUD OWNER OF A MOAT if you drop the butter dish on your way home, but you still throw the wet dewleaf in your yard.
• THE FAIRIES DEPART IN CONFUSION if you drop the dish on your way home and don't throw the wet dewleaf in time.

(Thanks to Doug Orleans for pointing out two endings I missed!)

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