Key & Compass presents:
Night of the Living Not-Dead
by DissoluteSolute as Dissolved

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

At the barricades

You have very limited time to act in this game, so let's assume you examined everything in a previous session.

Also note that you must set up your trap in this order. You won't tie the wire until after the pins are scattered on the floor.

> push sofa. (+1)

> put pins on floor. (+1)

> tie wire. (+1)

> put clay under wire. (+1)

> put knives on clay. (+1)

> z. z. z. z.

*** Bon appétit ***

Extras

Characters

• You are a homeowner and good-looking zombie.
• Three attackers smash through your windows using a battering ram.

Mentioned:

• Local undertakers gave you a great job deal since you don't need to sleep.
• Someone gave you a tip that zombie-hating people will invade your home in about fifteen minutes.

Credits

This is the response to CREDITS:

Night of the Living Not-Dead

And this is the response to ABOUT:

A short room defence game. Probably influenced by 10 Second Defence, although I haven’t played that in a while and this is far more linear.

Endings

• Turnabout is unfair play
• if you didn't even push the sofa. This is the 0 points ending.
• At least they stuck the dismount.
• if you pushed the sofa but didn't put the pins on the floor. This is the 1 point ending.
• A touching story of overcoming adversity—if one ignores everything that actually occured…
• if you pushed the sofa and placed the pins but didn't tie the wire. This is the 2 points ending.
• Is it better to die as farce than as tragedy?
• if you pushed the sofa, placed the pins, and tied the wire, but didn't put the clay under the wire. This is the 3 points ending.
• Not-so-angels with dirty faces they may be—it hardly stops them from killing you
• if you set up everything but the knives. This is the 4 points ending.
• Bon appétit
• if you succeed in eating the invaders. This is the 5 points endings.

Inventory

• a black sofa. It's in the room.
• Push the sofa so it blocks the windows.
• a box of odds and sods. It's on the sofa.
• The box itself is not important, but the pins in the box are important.
• some drawing pins. They're in the box.
• After pushing the sofa, put the pins on the floor, scattering them.
• some lengths of piano wire. They're on the side table.
• After putting the pins on the floor, tie the wire (between unmentioned pieces of furniture). The invaders will trip over it and fall onto whatever you put under the wire.
• a yellow bucket. It's on the side table.
• The bucket itself is not important, but the clay in the bucket is important.
• a portion of wet clay. It's in the bucket.
• After tying the wire, put the clay under the wire.
• some knives. They're on the side table.
• After putting the clay under the wire, put the knives in the clay (pointing upward, of course). The invaders will trip over the wire and impale themselves on the knives.

Score

This is the response to SCORE:

In T moves, you have scored N of a possible 5 points.

[if first time, add the following:]
(To see a detailed accounting of your score, type FULL SCORE.)

Points are awarded as follows:

• 1 point for pushing the sofa against the windows.
• 1 point for using drawing pins as a trap.
• 1 point for tying the piano wire.
• 1 point for spreading the clay under the wire.
• 1 point for putting the knives in the clay.

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