Key & Compass presents:
Safehouse
by Benjamin Sokal

• Walkthrough
• Extras
  • Characters, Endings, Inventory, Spells
• Thank You to my Patreon supporters
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Walkthrough

Safehouse

> x me. i. x mangoes.

> x computer. x cans. turn on computer.

> spells. (You know FROTZ, GNUSTO, NITFOL, and POWER UP.)

> power up computer. x computer. (It's now broken.)

> nitfol. smell. gnusto cans.

> x hatch. open hatch.

The word "xyzzy" isn't clued within the game, but I guessed trying it anyway:

> xyzzy. xyzzy.

> x portal. enter it. (You arrive at the Revolutionary War.)

*** The game has ended. Poorly. ***

> undo

> frotz portal. enter portal. (No, it smells like lobster?)

> smell portal. (Huh. It really does smell like lobster.)

> frotz portal. smell portal. (Now it smells of fuel.)

> enter it. (You arrive at an airplane terminal.)

*** The game has ended. You can do better. ***

> undo

> frotz portal. smell portal. (Smells arid and of disease.)

> enter it. (You arrive at the Irish Potato Famine.)

*** The game has ended. Better find some potatoes. ***

> undo

> frotz portal. smell portal. (Popcorn!)

> enter it. (You arrive at a movie theatre.)

*** The game has ended. Good job. ***

Note that there are only the five portal settings. Frotzing the popcorn-smell portal will replace it with the gunpowder-smell portal. Also, I believe the game is doing a switcheroo with different portal objects when you frotz them, since you can't use "it" to refer to the current portal immediately after frotzing the previous portal.

Extras

Characters

• A man and his poodle, and a queue of people as well, are in the airplane terminal ending.
• An old woman gives you a nasty look in the potato famine ending.
• Many people are in the crowded movie theatre ending.

Mentioned:

• Mother is mentioned in the room description. She didn't like your safehouse at all.
• Galileo Galilei is mentioned when you power up the computer.

Endings

• The game has ended. Poorly. if you enter the portal that smells like gunpowder.
• The game has ended. You can do better. if you enter the portal that smells like fuel.
• The game has ended. Better find some potatoes. if you enter the portal that smell arid and of disease.
• The game has ended. Good job. if you enter the portal that smells like popcorn.

Inventory

• some mangoes. You're carrying them. You can't do anything meaningful with them, not even eating them or dropping them.

And you're unwilling to pick up anything else. You'd rather use your lifting spell, except you don't have that either.

Spells

The spells in this game are:

• frotz something. The frotz spell causes spherical objects to quiver. The portal is the only thing spherical enough to use this spell on. Frotzing the portal changes the portal's smell and destination.
• gnusto something. The gnusto spell causes great gusts of wind. You can gnusto the cans to reveal the hatch, but that doesn't actually help you any.
• nitfol. The nitfol spell seems to give you just one hint, to "lead with your nose". That is, smell things.
• power up something. The power up spell is used exclusively to power up Apple computers built in 1983 or 1984. Obviously, you can only use this spell on the computer. Unfortunately, this results in the computer being destroyed.
• xyzzy. Summons a blue spherical portal. You can only summon one portal. Smell the portal to get a hint of where it goes, and enter the portal to go somewhere else.

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