Key & Compass presents:
Rana's Reception
by Interpied

• Map
• Walkthrough
• Extras
  • Characters, Endings, Inventory, Score
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Map

Walkthrough

Lobby

> x me. i. (default protagonist with nothing)

> x machine. clean it. read label.

> push button. g. g. g. (It's not a very good joke machine, is it?)

> x couch. x cushions. search cushions. (nothing)

> x paintings. x crack.

> x desk. x sign. x bell.

> ring bell. x penguin.

> n.

Rana's Room

> x scale. x frog. kiss frog. (no)

> x door. open door. (locked)

> x pedestal. x marks.

> x case. x cheese. x plaque.

> x window. x coop. x chickens.

> x whiteboard. x tray. x cloth. x marker.

> x basket. x eggs. x Pygos.

Ask Rana about various topics. She doesn't have an answer for everything, but she's the only character you can talk to.

> ask Rana about herself.

> ask her about inn. ask her about Geo.

> ask her about sleep.

> ask her about scale.

> ask her about penguin.

> ask her about cheese. ask her about mouse.

> ask her about machine. ask her about paintings.

> ask her about door.

Get the cheese.

> open case. take cheese.

Act on the pedestal marks.

> push pedestal. x it. search it. x hole.

> reach in hole. (can't)

> put cheese by hole. s. n. (The cheese is gone; a mouse is here.)

> x mouse. take mouse. pet mouse.

> ask Rana about mouse.

And what about that crevice?

> x crevice. reach in it. take something.

> x journal. open it. read note.

> ask Rana about Archimedes. ("EUREKA!")

By examining the note and the scale, and by asking Rana about the scale, you can deduce that the scale uses word-lengths for weights, that the frog weighs four units, and that by the Law of the Lever, you need eight units of weight on the other side of the scale.

The mouse weighs five, and an egg weighs three. So you need to get an egg from Pygos.

In Rana's room, examine Pygos several times in a row to learn his routine. You need to time things correctly so he has an egg when you ring the bell in the lobby.

When you see Pygos peeking inside the coop, quickly go south, ring the bell, and take his egg.

> x Pygos. (repeat until he peeks inside the coop)

> s.

Lobby

> ring bell. take egg. n.

Rana's Room

> put mouse on scale. put egg on scale.

Rana unlocks and opens the door and gives you a coin.

> x coin. ask Rana about coin.

> ask Rana about egg. x Pygos.

> x whiteboard. (awww)

It's okay. You can fix this. Replace the mouse and egg with the note and coin.

> take mouse and egg.

> put note on scale. put coin on scale. (Balance restored.)

> drop mouse. drop journal.

> s.

Lobby

> ring bell. give egg to Pygos.

> n. w.

outside

*** You have won ***

Extras

Characters

• Rana is a frog and the current head of the Latitude Inn. She hasn't has a good night's sleep in 150 years. ("Rana" is Latin for "frog".)
• Pygos is a penguin and Rana's assistant. He spends most of his time collecting eggs from a chicken coop and putting them all into one basket.
• Mus is a mouse that has been inside a hole in the pedestal for quite some time. ("Mus" is Latin for "mouse".)

Mentioned:

• Using armadillos as tennis balls is something you do every Thursday.
• C. M. Coolidge painted the lobby's paintings.
• Geochelone was the former head of the Latitude Inn, but he passed away. ("Geochelone" is Latin for tortoise.)
• Archimedes, the Greek inventor and scientist, was a friend of Geochelone's.
• A couple chickens are busy inside the chicken coop.

Endings

There is only one ending with the epitaph *** You have won *** when you leave the inn. However, the details about Pygos and Rana change drastically depending on how you left them, and your final score is tallied accordingly.

Inventory

Regarding weight: Ask Rana about the scale to learn (via her riddle poem) that the way her scale measures weight is to count the letters of a thing's name. That means Rana's weight is 4 because "frog" is four-letters long. The cheese's weight is 6, the journal's weight is 7, and so on.

• a cheese. It's in the trophy case in Rana's room. It's not locked.
• Examine the pedestal to find a hole. Put the cheese by (or near) the hole. Leave the room and return: the cheese is gone and a mouse is in its place.
• a journal. It's in a dark crevice in Rana's room. First, push the pedestal from it's original position to reveal the crevice. Reach into the crevice to feel something. Take the something: it's a journal.
• Open the journal to both read it and to obtain a note that was inside. The journal is a barely-used diary with no useful information.
• a note. Acquire it by opening the note.
• Read the note to learn about "The Law of the Lever".
• Because the Rana's side extends twice as far as the other, the weight on the short side needs to be twice as much as Rana. Rana weighs 4 because "frog" is a four-letter word. So the target total weight is 8.
• Mouse (5) + Egg (3) = 8.
• Note (4) + Coin (4) = 8.
• a mouse. Examine the pedestal in Rana's room to find a hole. Put the cheese by (or near) the hole. Leave the room and return. The cheese is gone and the mouse is in its place.
• Ask Rana about the mouse to learn its name is Mus.
• Put just the mouse and the egg on the scale to balance it.
• an egg. Sometimes Pygos is carrying an egg. Examine the window in Rana's room repeatedly to determine his schedule.
• In the lobby, ring the bell when Pygos has an egg, then just take the egg from him. Yes, just take it; it's on his head.
• Put just the mouse and the egg on the scale to balance it. The west door opens and you receive a coin.
• If you want the point associated with Pygos, take the egg back to the lobby, ring the bell, and give the egg to Pygos.
• a coin. Rana gives it to you when you balance her scale with the mouse and egg.
• After you get the coin, remove the mouse and egg from the scale, return the egg to Pygos, then put both the note and coin on the scale to rebalance the scale. Now you can leave with the high score.

Score

This is the response to SCORE:

You should focus on your rehabilitation.

Points are only awarded when you win the game. The mininum score is 0. The maximum score is 2.

Points are awarded as follows:

• 1 point if you returned the egg to Pygos.
• 1 point if the scale is still balanced when you leave the inn.

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