Key & Compass presents:
Orchid Species of the Erastian
by Ryan Veeder

• Maps
  • Map 1: Ankers Island
  • Map 2: Wallisk Island
• Walkthrough
• Extras
  • Characters, Inventory
• Thank You to my Patreon supporters
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• External links:
  • This game at Homepage, IFDB, and IFWiki.
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Maps

Map 1: Ankers Island

To travel to another island, enter your sailboat, then SAIL TO island.

Map 2: Wallisk Island

Walkthrough

Beach

> x me. i. x sketchbook. open it. x it.

> x sailboat. name sailboat Hedon. (or any other name)

> x sand. x jungle. x cliff. x building.

> w.

Jungle

> x rocks. x vines. x formation.

> x flower. sketch it. x sketch.

> sw.

Grave

> x rock. x orchid. sketch it. x sketch.

> n.

Tree

> x tree. look in tree. enter tree. (not yet)

> n.

Wrecked Ship

> x ship. x knife. take it. x blade.

> in.

Inside the Shipwreck

> x hull. x lockbox. take it.

> take journal. x it. (You learn where Wallisk Island is.)

> x cloth.

> out. s. se. e. in.

Aboard the Sailboat / Aboard the Hedon

> x map. sail to Wallisk. out.

Rotting Dock

> x dock. x table. x chair.

> x parasol. take it.

> e.

Overgrown Garden

> x shrubbery. x statue.

> x orchid. sketch it. x sketch.

> x greenhouse. e.

Greenhouse

> x tree. x roots. x fruit.

> x orchid. sketch it. x sketch.

> x bronze girl.

> e. (blocked by rubble)

This is, at far as I know, the majority of the content of this game as of March 31, 2020.

Extras

Characters

This is a solo adventure, but there are a few fleeting references to other people.

• "H S" is engraved on the knife handle.
• Heveanna is mentioned in the journal.
• Friends of Heveanna have a place on Wallisk Island.
• Lephaene is represented by a statue in the overgrown garden. You recognize her from her starry tiara and her mirror. I assume she is a fictional character in some well-known story or myth.
• A bronze girl, holding a tilted teacup, leans over the stagnant pool in the greenhouse.
• Also, you may suppose that someone wrote the journal, and someone is buried underneath the gravestone.

Inventory

• a sketchbook. You're carrying it.
• Whenever you find an orchid in the game, you may draw it, adding that flower to your sketchbook.
• Find the Nerafines on Ankers Island in the jungle.
• Find the Majusepta on Ankers Island by examining the grave.
• Find the Lephaenia in the Overgrown Garden on Wallisk Island by examining the statue of Lephaene.
• Find the Tarmeline in the Greenhouse on Wallisk Island by examining the tree.
• a knife handle. It's at Wrecked Ship; the blade was lost. It has the initials "H S" on it.
• This item is unused.
• a stained journal. It's at Inside the Shipwreck.
• Read it. It gives you the coordinates for Wallisk Island and mentions someone named Heveanna.
• a lockbox. At Inside the Shipwreck, find it by searching the crates.
• You cannot open this lockbox.
• a skeletal parasol. It's on the Rotting Dock on Wallisk Island.
• This item is unused.

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