Key & Compass presents:
Only After Dark
by Gunther Schmidl

• Map
• Walkthrough
  • Day One
  • Day Two
  • Day Three
• Extras
  • Characters, Credits, Endings, Inventory, Score
• Thank You to my Patreon supporters
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Map

Because this game is heavily plot-driven, a map isn't very useful. Still, you get one anyway. I like maps.

Walkthrough

Day One

> SPACE

Village Center

> about.

> x me. i. x clothes. x knife. x ring. x talisman.

> x tree. x platform. x rope.

> x circle. x huts.

> n. (A beautiful woman named Lyca arrives, and pulls you towards a hut.)

> x Lyca. enter hut.

Lyca's Hut

> remove clothes. enter hammock. (Lyca joins you.)

> kiss Lyca. x Lyca.

She turns into a wolf! Your talisman repels her when she tries to bite your throat! You both fall out of the hammock and you pull out your knife.

CAUTION: If you try to kill the wolf with the knife or throw the knife at the wolf, you die.

> throw talisman at wolf.

The wolf catches fire! You stab her in the eye. She dies. You're knocked out.

> SPACE

When you wake, two angry villagers haul you to their jail, but not before you see the human Lyca with your knife in her eye. Oddly, you have the talisman again.

Jail Hut

> x me. (naked)

> i. wear talisman.

> x bed. x door.

> open door. (A guard yells at you.)

> open door. (They tie you to the bed.)

> yell. (They gag you.)

> sleep. SPACE

Day Two

> SPACE

Village Center

You are woken, restrained, given your trousers, and taken to the gallows. They tie the rope around your neck. Gerhardsen and Aten arrive and argue with the Elder. You see the shaman wearing a wolf fur! A guard smothers your mouth and nose before you can say anything.

> bite guard.

You fall, but Aten cuts you free. The villagers become wolves. They tear Gerhardsen apart as you and Aten flee!

Running through the Woods

> run.

> run.

> run. (Aten falls! But you dare not stop.)

> run. (You can see the Dagon.)

> run.

You make it onto the Dagon. You tell Captain Davids everything. He says he can make a salve that can turn you into a wolf for a time. He orders you to sleep.

> SPACE

Day Three

> SPACE

(The Dagon)

After midnight, Davids applies the salve. When the pain of transformation fades, sight has paled greatly but you can smell everything much better.

> SPACE

Davids quickly drops you off the boat and tells you to kill the shaman and be back in two hours or else.

Beach

> smell evil. follow evil. (You head northeast to...)

Fork in the Path

> nw. (You lose the trail and return to the fork.)

> ne.

Clearing

> x shaman. x altar.

CAUTION: If you try to kill the shaman now, you'll get caught in a net trap and held until you're stuck as a wolf. You also cannot leave.

> jump at shaman. (He curses, and ten villagers arrive.)

> kill shaman. (His blood spills, and the villagers collapse.)

It takes a huge effort to ignore the blood smell.

> sw. sw. sw.

Beach

> e. (Can't enter the water.)

> howl. (Davids arrives and shoots you!)

> SPACE

The Dagon

You wake, human. Davids apologizes for the "silver treatment". You ask if you were successful. He nods.

*** You have won ***

Extras

Characters

Crew of the Dagon:

• Captain Davids is your captain. He meets the Elder in the prologue before returning to the ship. He also knows some alchemy.
• Aten and Gerhardsen are fellow crewmen. Aten is a friend, knows some of the local dialect, and he frees you from the hanging rope. Gerhardsen is the quartermaster. Unfortunately, they both die when the wolves attack.

The villagers:

• The Elder of the village seems to be in charge.
• Lyca is a beautiful black woman who takes an interest in you. Unfortunately, she's a werewolf and her interest is gastronomic, not sexual.
• The shaman is truly in charge of the village. Somehow, he can turn all the villagers into wolves with just a word. His scent reeks of evil.
• Guards outside the jail hut will tie you up and gag you if you don't behave.
• Other villagers are under the shaman's control. It's not clear if they fully know that, however.

Credits

This is the response to ABOUT:

You will want to play this game on an interpreter that supports full color for the original experience.

Thanks to Jon Blask, Jason Dyer, Simon Stapleton and Dan Shiovitz for testing!

Endings

• You have died
• if you're not wearing the talisman when Lyca transforms into a wolf.
• if you try to kill the Lyca-wolf with your knife, or throw the knife at her, or otherwise make a useless action after she's transformed.
• if, on the platform, you never bite the guard. Aten never frees you, so when the villagers become wolves, you hang to death.
• if, while running through the woods because wolves are chasing you, you stop running for any reason.
• if, in the clearing, you attack the villagers when they first emerge from the woods.
• You have failed
• if you, as a wolf, get caught in the net trap in the clearing. You're kept tied up and forget you ever were a man.
• if, in the clearing, after the villagers have fallen, you attack them. The blood lust means you've chosen to stay as a wolf.
• if, back at the beach, after killing the shaman, you run back into the woods.
• You spend the night alone
• if you walk away from Lyca (or just wait repeatedly in the Village Center) instead of entering her hut.
• You have won
• if you return to the Dagon in time after killing the shaman.

Inventory

• your clothes. You're wearing them.
• After entering Lyca's hut, take off your clothes as Lyca suggests. If you stall, she'll rip them off herself. You'll be naked until Day Two, when your guards return your trousers to you to wear.
• At the start of Day Three, Davids tells you to remove your clothes so he can apply the salve. Wolves don't wear clothes.
• your talisman. You're wearing it.
• The talisman saves you from Lyca's initial attack.
• After Lyca becomes a wolf, throw the talisman at her to defeat her.
• You have the talisman back when you leave Lyca's hut. Wear it.

Honorable mention:

• an ear ring. You're wearing it.
• You can't do much with it but try to look at it.
• a knife. It's in your boot.
• You'll take it automatically when you fall off the hammock in Lyca's hut. You'll automatically stab Lyca in the eye after you throw your talisman at her.
• a gag. If you yell too much in the jail cell, you'll be bound to the bed and gagged.
• The gag isn't implemented as an object. It's removed at the beginning of Day Two.

Score

The response to SCORE is:

Life doesn't work that way.

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