Key & Compass presents:
Santa's Sleigh Ride
by Molly Geene

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

Rooftop

> about. credits. x me. i.

You can examine a lot of things, but the only thing you need to examine is your sleigh to notice the stick in it:

> x bag. x wii. x Barbie. x Batman. x comic.

> x bone. x j bag. x k bag.

> x reindeer. x Dasher. x Rudolph.

> x sleigh. x book. x blanket. x mug. x stick.

> x snow. x chimney.

Time to get to work:

> d. x junk. take stick. clean junk with stick. (+1)

> put stick in sleigh.

> d.

Living Room

Again, you can examine a lot, but you can skip this part:

> x dog. x boy. x couch. x tree. x lights. x ornaments.

> x walls. x fireplace. x j stocking. x k stocking.

Back to work. Give the dog her gift first or you won't be able to put anything under the tree:

> give bone to dog. (+1)

> put Wii under tree. (+1)

> put Barbie under tree. (+1)

> put Batman under tree. (+1)

> put J bag in J stocking. (+1)

> put K bag in K stocking. (+1)

The boy suddenly wakes up, but you signal him to stay quiet.

> u.

As you fly off, the boy and his sister wave at you from outside.

*** Merry Christmas! ***

Extras

Characters

• Your Reindeer Brigade is on the rooftop with you.
• They are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen. And Rudolph, too, as team leader.
• The Madison family are inside their house.
• Tina, the dog, is awake and in the living room. She's initially unfriendly.
• Justin, the boy, is asleep on the living room couch.
• Kelly, the boy's sister, only makes an appearance when you fly away at the end.
• The children's mother and father are only referred to briefly. They don't make an appearance.

Credits

The response to CREDITS:

The main writer of this IF is Molly Geene. She wrote the code for this game with Inform 7, a program written by Graham Nelson, with David Kinder's Windows front-end. She used the extensions "Bulk Limiter" and "Underside" by Eric Eve and "Plurality" by Emily Short. She drew the cover art with an anonymous internet reference. She'd like to thank all the posters who have helped her over the years at the Usenet group rec.arts.int-fiction, including David Kinder and Jim Aiken. She'd also like to thank her beta-testers Kevin Cogger and Philip Armstrong, and the people at the two forums she shared an early build with, The Return of Talking Time and Truth and Beauty Bombs. Finally, she'd like to thank Santa Claus, because without him this game wouldn't be possible. For bug reports or any other reason she can be reached at email redacted.

Inventory

• the magic bag. You're carrying it. All the presents you need for this house are in it.
• Wrapped Wii (for the family). It's in the magic bag. Put it under the tree after you've given the bone to Tina.
• Wrapped Barbie (for Kelly). It's in the magic bag. Put it under the tree after you've given the bone to Tina.
• Wrapped Batman Action Figure (for Justin). It's in the magic bag. Put it under the tree after you've given the bone to Tina.
• Doggy bone (for Tina). It's in the magic bag. Give it to the dog, Tina.
• Kelly's candy bag. It's in the magic bag. Put it in Kelly's Christmas stocking.
• Justin's candy bag. It's in the magic bag. Put it in Justin's Christmas stocking.
• the magic book. It's in your sleigh. You can read it.
• the sweeper stick. It's in your sleigh. Clean or push the junk in the chimney with it.

Score

• 1 point for clearing the chimney.
• 1 point for delivering the bone.
• 1 point for delivering the Wii.
• 1 point for delivering the Barbie doll.
• 1 point for delivering the Batman action figure.
• 1 point for delivering Justin's candy bag.
• 1 point for delivering Kelly's candy bag.

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