No More is a Glulx interactive fiction story written with Inform 7 and is © 2024 by Tabitha (aka alyshkalia). It was an entry in the Le Grand Guignol (English) division of Ectocomp 2024 where it took 9th place. It also placed 2nd overall in the Gothic Horror Jam #2 event, and was a participant in the Short Games Showcase 2024.
In this short one-room horror story, you play as a cleric's eldest daughter. His face full of hate, your father forces you into a horse-drawn carriage, bruising your arm. He wants the nuns to deal with your insolence. No fidgeting! No talking!
This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on Release 1 of the story.
SPOILERS AHEAD. Reading a walkthrough prematurely can sometimes diminish one's enjoyment of an interactive fiction story. Please make an honest effort to play the story before reading this walkthrough.
In the carriage
Note that if you type STORY, the story plays itself out for you; it's much easier to do that than follow a walkthrough.
> about. CW. detail.
> x me. x skirts. x arm.
> x father. x collar.
> x lantern. x bench. x curtain. x sky.
> ask father about nuns. (He wants silence.)
> listen. smell.
> open curtain. (The sky looks brighter.)
> x sky. (You feel emboldened.)
> open curtain. x moonlight.
> open curtain —or— touch moonlight.
You transform into a more bestial shape.
> x hair. x claws. x fangs.
> x father.
> kill father.
*** The End ***
Note that the story is not quite as simple as opening the curtain a couple times then killing your father. You must first satisfy a number of story beats before you are emboldened enough to defy your father.
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This is the response to ABOUT or CREDITS:
Made for ECTOCOMP 2024, this work is an interactive story that will move forward as you explore. Look at the things around you (by typing "x [thing]", "x" being short for "examine"), and try interacting with them. If you'd like to watch the story unfold without needing to type commands yourself, type STORY to enable story mode. Story mode can only be enabled at the beginning of the game.
If you'd like to view content warnings, type "CW".
You can record a transcript of your playthrough by typing "transcript" (alternatively, you can copy and paste the text of your playthrough into a text document when you're done). Seeing players' transcripts is fun and can help me improve the game, so feel free to share yours with me, either via intfiction.org, Discord, or email (
email redacted).Many thanks to testers Drew Cook, mathbrush, manonamora, SkyShard, and Amanda Walker, who provided invaluable feedback, and extra thanks to Drew for the code help and the story mode extension! Thanks also to Drew's Let's Make IF series, from which I learned about using scenes in Inform, and to everyone in the Neo-Interactives Discord who helped me with Inform troubleshooting and provided general moral support!
You have no true inventory in this story. However...
Before your transformation, you have skirts, arms, hands, and legs you can look at.
After your transformation, you have hair, claws, a snout, and fangs you can look at.
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