Key & Compass presents:
The Sofa At The End Of The Universe
by Sean Barrett

The Sofa At The End Of The Universe is a Z-machine work of interactive fiction written with Inform 6 and is © 2001 by Sean Barrett. It was a participant in the Douglas N. Adams Tribute Speed-IF event.

In this homage to Douglas Adams, you play as Dirk Gently, the world's only holistic detective. Your landlord has ordered you to move your new sofa that the movers left in the stairwell, but there doesn't seem to be any possible way to move the sofa up or down from there.

This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on Release 3 of the work.

Walkthrough
Extras
- Characters, Inventory
Thank You to my Patreon supporters
External links:
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Walkthrough

Office

> x me. x desk. x sep. take sep. w.

Hallway

> x door. knock on door. g. g. d.

Stairwell

> x sofa.

> s. x south wall.

> push sofa. g. turn sofa.

> put sep on sofa. turn on sep. u. e.

Office

Alas, your landlord isn't fooled, even though he can't see the sofa. You'll need to try something else.

> w. d.

Stairwell

> take sep. put sep on south wall. toggle sep.

*** You have won ***

Extras

Characters

Your landlord, in the prologue, orders you to move the sofa out from the stairwell.
A strange-looking man occupies the room west of the hallway. Knock on the door to meet him.

Mentioned:

The movers who somehow left the sofa in the stairwell.
The jackbooted vandals and visigoths you hear nightly in the room above yours.

Inventory

a SEP-field generator. It's on your desk in your office.

First, try putting the generator on the sofa and turn the generator on. With the sofa now effectively invisible, you can return to your office.
Secondly, put the generator on the south wall of the stairwell and then toggle the generator. This will nullify another SEP-field that was hiding a huge hole in that wall.

Thank You to my Patreon supporters

This walkthrough is provided free of charge since I wrote this walkthrough prior to January 2015 when I began my Patreon account, and also because the work it's based on has less than fifteen locations (so I wouldn't have charged for it anyway). I've since reformatted this walkthrough to use my currently preferred style. I hope you enjoy it!