Key & Compass presents:
And So It Goes
by Adam Conover

In this short game, you play as Failure, the literal embodiment of failure. It's your job to make people experience failure, and soon, your boss will call you, ordering you to your new assignment.

This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on Release 1 of the game.

Walkthrough
Extras
- Characters, Inventory
Thank You to my Patreon supporters
External links:
- This game at IFDB, IFWiki, and ifwizz.
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Walkthrough

Your Office

> x desk. x papers. x rack. x phone.

> x failure. take failure. smell failure. z.

After eight turns, your phone rings.

> take phone. g.

You get to the target site, and make yourself insubstantial and undetectable.

In a hallway

> w. e.

Bathroom

You can reach a rather odd ending by using the toilet before James enters:

> save. sit on toilet. poop. flush toilet. x poop. take poop. z.

*** You have pooped unnecessarily, and also learned a valuable lesson ***

> restore

Or you can grab the pills before James arrives and have the game fail to come to a conclusion:

> open cabinet. take pills. x pills. x cabinet. x sink. x toilet. x James.

> w. s.

> restore

Surprisingly, the best option seems to do nothing significant at all:

> i. x jacket. x nametag. x list. z. z. z.

*** Man has failed (which is to say that you have succeeded) ***

Yeah, you know what? That's probably what the previous non-ending was supposed to say. Running the story file into a decompiler reveals this ending should really say:

*** Man has succeeded (which is to say that you have failed) ***

Extras

Characters

Your boss phones you. He mentions his secretary.
A cabbie drives you over.
James is your target for failure. According to your list, his last name is Smith.
A woman can be heard talking to James, presumably James's wife or girlfriend.

Inventory

a jacket. You're wearing it when you get to the hallway. It has a nametag you can look at. You can't remove the jacket while on the job.
a list. You're carrying it when you get to the hallway. You can read it, but it doesn't tell you much.
a bottle of pills. It's Viagra, and it's inside the bathroom's cabinet. If you take it, James won't be able to find it.

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!