Key & Compass presents:
Ramón and Jonathan
by Daniele A. Gewurz

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

Walkthrough

Tribunal Hall

> x me. i. (Carrying nothing.)

> x Iliana. (She pulls an object from her belt.)

> x object. (It's a grenade.)

> ask Iliana about grenade. (She gives it to you.)

> x bench. x cage. x Ramon. x Jonathan. x policemen.

> ask Iliana about justice.

> ask Iliana about hangmen.

> ask Iliana about equipment.

By this time, men in black are freeing Ramón and Jonathan and tying up the warders. Don't worry that we're being tardy. I'm trying squeeze as many details out of this story as I can.

> x smoke grenade. x revolver.

> x radio set. x belt.

> ask Iliana for smoke grenade.

> ask her about smoke grenade. (Activated by dropping it.)

> ask her about mib. (She thinks they're minions of the hangmen.)

> drop smoke grenade.

> throw grenade at gate. (The gate is blasted open!)

> e. e. ne.

Hangar

Curious about the shuttle? Go ahead and explore it, if you like:

> x field. x shuttle. enter shuttle.

> x Jonathan. x Ramon. x Joe. x Jack. x Jim. x controls.

> out.

But the Commander is who you really want to speak with:

> x MiB —or— x Commander. (He wants to talk to you. He sounds Terran.)

> ask him about hangmen. ask him about Earth.

> ask him about Tithonus. ask him about justice.

> tell him about me.

> ask him about prosecution.

He asks you to come along to Earth to testify. Will you?

> yes

*** You have won ***

Extras

Characters

• Ramón and Jonathan are both old men. The main difference between them is Ramón sneers and Jonathan is fit. They called themselves the People's Friends but they are hangmen who killed many on the station. Unfortunately, the verdict they received at trial means they won't receive any punishment for their many crimes.
• Iliana is beautiful, athletic, a fierce supporter of "Justice Now", and a very good friend of yours. She wears a utility belt with several pieces of equipment.
• The public crowd of people are very unhappy with the tribunal's verdict.
• The policemen attempt to keep order in the tribunal hall. Some are warders inside the cell.
• Four men in black — Joe, Jack, Jim, and their Commander — free the hangmen from the cage and escort them to their shuttle. The Commander is willing to talk to you.

Mentioned:

• The judges in the tribunal.
• The victims that Ramón and Jonathan killed.
• Other members of Justice Now.

Credits

From the response to CREDITS:

[The author is enormously indebted to Graham Nelson (not personally, alas), to many frequenters of the newsgroups rec.arts.int-fiction and it.comp.giochi.avventure.testuali, and to his betatesters Maria Cristina Valsecchi (who deserves an honourable mention), Tommaso Caldarola, Francesco Cordella, Maurizio Paoluzi, Marco Saccone, and Pierluigi Zezza.]

Endings

• You have died
• if you attack any member of the men in black in any way; or
• if you shoot the gun at the crowd, the policemen, or Iliana; or
• if you throw the explosive grenade at the crowd, the policemen, or Iliana; or
• if you hit Iliana.
• You have lost.
• if Iliana blows open the cage door in plain sight (when she holds onto the explosive grenade too long), or
• if you blow open the cage door in plain sight, or
• if you kill both Ramón and Jonathan with the revolver in the shuttle.
• You got out of the Tribunal.
• if you simply leave the hall by the main south exit, or
• if you decline the commander's offer to testify on Earth.
• You have won
• if you accept the commander's offer to testify on Earth.

Note: The shuttle won't leave at any pre-set time. There's no ending where shuttle takes off just because you wasted too many turns.

Inventory

All three items are initially held by Iliana, but you can't see them at first. You'll see the explosive grenade (as a small metallic object) first when she stands up. You can ask for it or about it then, and she'll give it to you.

For the other two items, you must learn they exist first. Ask her about the hangmen, and she'll mention she has equipment. Then ask her about equipment, and she'll tell you what she has. Now you can ask for the smoke grenade and the revolver, and she'll give them to you. Iliana won't part with her radio set or her utility belt, though.

• a smoke grenade. Drop it to fill the tribunal hall with smoke. Now you can use the other grenade!
• an explosive grenade. While the tribunal hall is filled with smoke, throw this grenade at the cage. Now that the cage door is blown open, you can now go east and follow the men in black when they take Ramón and Jonathan away.
• a shiny revolver. Avoid this item. Shooting both hangmen with it results in a loss, and shooting anyone else results in your death.

Dishonorable mention:

• Ramón or Jonathan. If you kill one of them, your victim is now inanimate and may be picked up like any other object. Oddly, no one seems interested in your gruesome trophy. (Killing both of them results in a losing ending.)

Score

The response to SCORE is blunt:

Scoring some kind of points is about the last thing on your mind just now.

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