Key & Compass presents:
Practical Astrology
by Admiral Jota

You play as Agent Hamburg, a stellar control operative, thanks to your acquisition of the definitive textbook on the subject, Moving the Stars. In normal astrology, one predicts the future by reading the heavenly bodies. But in practical astrology, one moves the heavenly bodies to engineer the desired future. Science!

This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on Release 1 of the game.

Walkthrough
Extras
- Characters, Endings, Inventory, Score
Thank You to my Patreon supporters
External links:
- This game at IFDB, IFWiki, and ifwizz.
- Tweet about this walkthrough on Twitter.

Walkthrough

Control Room

> i. x textbook.

> x shovotronic. x dials. x mercury. x venus. x mars.

> x monitor. x alpha. x beta. x gamma. x delta.

At this point, you should experiment with the dials to see what effects they have:

The Mercury dial effects how silly the Internet is (on monitor gamma) from 1 (least silly) to 3 (most silly).
The Venus dial effects food preferences (on monitor beta) from 1 (least healthy) to 3 (most healthy).
The Mars dial effects water temperature (on monitor alpha) from 1 (cold) to 3 (hot).

> turn mercury to 3. x gamma.

> turn venus to 3. x beta.

> turn mars to 1. x alpha. x delta.

*** You have won ***

Extras

Characters

Several ladies are enjoying a hot shower, as seen on monitor alpha.
Alexander the Great and Neil Gaiman can be seen on monitor beta arguing about desserts.
An insurance salesman, gradeschool girls, and others can be seen in an Internet chatroom on monitor gamma. Some of the other people include denizens of ifMud; for example, Adam and inky.
Agent Larch gives you your tasks via monitor delta.

Mentioned:

Don Dondon, the author of Moving the Stars, the textbook responsible for you getting your current job.
Ricky Martin is who the insurance salesman is pretending to be in an Internet chatroom.

Endings

You have died if you set Mercury to 1.
You have won when you examine monitor delta when all your tasks are completed.

Inventory

a textbook. You're carrying it. Read it.

Score

In that game you scored your-score out of a possible 1, in some turns.

1 point for examining monitor delta and discovering you have no tasks for today.

Thank You to my Patreon supporters

This walkthrough is provided free of charge since I wrote this walkthrough prior to January 2015 when I began my Patreon account, and also because the work it's based on has less than fifteen locations (so I wouldn't have charged for it anyway). I've since reformatted this walkthrough to use my currently preferred style. I hope you enjoy it!

I'm still creating new walkthroughs! Larger ones too! Please visit my Patreon account if you're interested in helping me create more interactive fiction walkthroughs. I appreciate all the help I can get! Thanks again.

Key & Compass presents: Practical Astrology by Admiral Jota