Key & Compass presents:
Moon Base
by Andy Brown

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

There are no explicit rooms or room names in this story, but there's still enough sense of location that I can assign meaningful names to where you are.

In Maria's ship, the MarGesh

You can optionally examine the moon and your axe:

> moon. Return. axe. Return

Most of the story is quite linear, without choices:

> communication device

> It had been a fond hope...

> ENGAGE AUTOPILOT FOR LANDING

> left the ship

Docking Bay

> intercom

> Nothing at all...

> entered the base

Corridor

> left —or— left corridor

> lumps of flesh

> Return

> something

Maria uses her pulse weapon and axe to kill a creature.

Dormitory

Maria talks to a dying man.

> Someone was groaning in the room...

> She looked around the room...

> left the room

By window

CAUTION: If you call for backup, you'll die.

> The least she could do was give them a chance

Computer Room

Using another intercom, Maria talks to the survivors in the botanics lab.

> the airlock

Airlock

> opened the outer airlock door...

In the Buggy

CAUTION: If you try to save the people first, you'll be killed soon afterwards.

> should she destroy the crashed ship

> A clawed hand knocked her to the ground...

Outside Botanics Lab

Maria very luckily kills the last creature using a drill.

> depressurise

The base is saved.

THE END

Extras

Characters

• Maria Kenshall is the player-character. Her ship is the MarGesh.
• Commander Samster ordered you to find out why the lunar base isn't answering calls.
• A dying man in the dormitory tells you what happened.
• Some human survivors are in the botanics lab.
• The first creature is the alien's pet, according to the dying man. It attacks Maria outside the dormitory.
• The second creature is monstrous. Maria sees it first through a window, and later kills it with a drill.
• A dozen alien children are hiding in the alien ship.

Endings

All three endings end with THE END:

1. If Maria opts to call for backup, she'll be killed by the second creature as she tries to leave the moon in her ship.
2. If Maria opts to save the people before destroying the alien ship, she'll be killed by the alien children that were hiding in it.
3. If Maria destroys the alien ship first, she'll be able to save the human survivors and herself.

Inventory

There is no formal inventory in this story, but we are told that Maria uses the following items:

• a pulse weapon. Maria uses it to attack the first creature.
• an axe. You can examine it from the first page of the story. Maria uses it to kill the first creature.
• some explosives. Maria finds them in the buggy and uses them to destroy the alien ship, including a dozen alien children.
• a drill. Maria uses it to kill the second creature.

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