Key & Compass presents:
Skipping Breakfast
by Stephen Griffiths

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

Walkthrough

Moonlit Forest Clearing

> x me. (You're a rabbit tied to a tree who will be a wolf's breakfast soon.)

> i. (carrying nothing)

A wolf drops an armful of firewood by the stones before leaving.

> untie rope. (cant reach knot)

> bite rope. (The rope yelped!)

> talk to rope.

> talk to rope. (It'll release you if you untie it from the tree.)

> ok. (+1. You're free.)

The other end of the rope is above your head, out of reach.

> climb tree. (Can't climb high enough.)

> d.

> climb rope. untie rope. (Can't while holding onto the rope. You fall back down.)

> x cliff. (You see an outcrop near the top.)

> x outcrop. (Strong enough to hold weight.)

> x stones. x firewood. x embers. x bones. x moon.

> roll stones to tree.

> climb stones. untie rope. (+1)

> take rope.

> w —or— s. (denied; the wolf would catch you!)

> throw rope at outcrop.

> climb rope. (+1)

You have won the game with a score of 3 points out of 3 in several turns giving you a rank of cotton-tailed, still-alive-rabbit.

Extras

Characters

• The wolf brings a load of firewood early in the game. If you don't escape before he brings more firewood, you'll be a wolf's breakfast!
• The rope is an Acme rope, the world's strongest rope. It's also alive and can talk and it wants to be untied from the tree.

Found dead:

• Bones of other rabbits are amongst the embers in the centre of the clearing.

Credits

The response to CREDITS is:

"Skipping Breakfast"
Release 2 - June 1999
Copyright (1999) Stephen Griffiths.

"Skipping Breakfast" was written as an entry in the February 1999 "WackyComp" run on the rec.games.int-fiction Usenet newsgroup by David Glasser.

This game was written using the Alan Adventure Language (version 2.8). The Alan language is written by Thomas Nilsson.

• WWW : http://www.pp.softlab.se/thomas.nilsson/alan/

Many thanks to Thomas for creating this excellent language and for the help and support he has given me in using it.

One of the main reasons I released this second version of "Skipping Breakfast" was that I wanted to release the game's source code. Hopefully it will be of interest to other IF authors using the Alan language. The source code can be downloaded from the IF Archive.

I welcome any feedback or bug reports on "Skipping Breakfast" (either as a game or as a source code example.) Comments can be sent to me, via Internet email, to email redacted.

Thanks to Lelah Conrad and Bob Reeves for beta-testing and offering many helpful suggestions.

More games and more information about Interactive Fiction can be obtained from the Interactive Fiction Archive.

• FTP/WWW : ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive
• 'mirror': http://if-archive.org/

Interactive fiction Usenet newsgroups

• news://rec.arts.int-fiction
• news://rec.games.int-fiction

Link updates:

• The homepage for ALAN is currently at https://alanif.se/.
• The IF Archive is currently at http://ifarchive.org/ (no hyphen).
• While the newsgroups still technically exist, IF discussion in general has moved to the Interactive Fiction Community Forum (https://intfiction.org/) and elsewhere.
• Also, check out Alan IF discussions at https://groups.google.com/g/alan-if.

Endings

• You're roast, cotton-tail!
• if you don't escape after 80 turns. The wolf returns with a second armload of firewood and, uh, has breakfast.
• You have won the game
• if you do escape by climbing the rope up to the top of the cliff.

Inventory

• some firewood. The wolf drops it in the clearing after 2 turns.
• You have no use for the firewood, and while carrying it, you can't climb anything. Leave the firewood alone.
• a rope. One end is wrapped around you and the tree, and the other end is knotted to the tree, but the knot is out of reach.
• First, talk to the rope and agree to its offer to get it to free you from the tree.
• Second, push the stones to the tree, climb the stones, and untie the rope. Take the rope.
• Finally, throw the rope over the outcrop (of the cliff). Climb the rope to escape being a wolf's breakfast.

Score

The response to SCORE is:

You have scored your-score points out of 3. (In several turns.)

Points are awarded as follows:

• 1 point for agreeing to the rope's deal.
• 1 point for untying the rope from the tree.
• 1 point for escaping the clearing.

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