In this game, you play as a masked thief waking up in the quiet hours of the morning in your damp wooden crate. You need to get going and steal eight food items, eat them, then nurse your growing children. Soon they will have to learn to be as excellent a thief as you.
This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on Release 1 of the game.
SPOILERS AHEAD. Reading a walkthrough prematurely can sometimes diminish one's enjoyment of an interactive fiction game. Please make an honest effort to play the game before reading this walkthrough.
Note that you have to "enter something" rather than use the command "in" which usually won't work as you'd expect.
Walkthrough
Home interior
> x me. x boy. x girl.
> out.
Split path
The snake never actually attacks or follows you.
> x snake. kill snake.(It's gone.)
> look. x burrow. take berries.(+1)
> eat berries.
> e.
Playground
> x bars. climb bars.
> x slide. climb slide.
> x sandbox. x bucket. take gummies.(+1)
> eat them.
> x tunnel. enter tunnel.
(inside green tunnel)
Note: You cannot take the box, just the crackers.
> x box. open box. take crackers.(+1)
> eat them.
> out. s.
Camping grounds
Nothing to see here.
> n. e.
Old fountain area
The fountain itself is not implemented.
> x apple. take it.(+1)eat it.
> w. w. n.
Weedy lake shore
A bug in the program will let you see inside the nest and take the egg when you're still on the ground.
> x lake. x cattails.
> x tree. climb tree.
(up in tree)
> x nest. x egg. take it(+1). eat it.
> out. s. w.
Abandoned hideout
> x stump.(found a snack food bag)
You cannot take the snack bag, just the chips.
> open bag. take chips.(+1)eat chips.
> w.
Open field
Nothing here but memories.
> e. s.
Predator's front yard
> x cottage. enter.
(inside cottage)
CAUTION: Attacking the Predator is fatal.
> take seeds.(+1)eat seeds.
> out. s.
Predator's yard of junk
The pistol is quite useless to you. The game does not provide you with SHOOT, FIRE, or USE commands.
> x pistol. x target.
> w.
Garden
CAUTION: The carrot is booby-trapped. If you try to take the carrot, you die. And no, you cannot push it off with something else, nor dig up any other carrots.
> x carrot.(on something)
> e. e.
Dog yard
> x kennel. enter.
(inside kennel)
> x dogs. x jerky.
Unfortunately, there is no safe way to steal the jerky; you die if you try.
> out. e.
Clear lake shore
> x boat. enter boat.
(inside boat)
> x case. x hook. take hook.
> unlock case with hook. drop hook.
> open case. take saltines.(+1)
When you reach 8 points, the game ends in victory. You're a well-fed raccoon.
*** You have won ***
Extras
Characters
You are a hungry female raccoon.
Your boy and your girl are sleeping in your crate home.
A snake threatens you on the split path.
The Predator is sleeping on his couch in his cottage.
Three dogs are sleeping in their kennel.
Mentioned:
Teens used to come to the hideout to set off fireworks and smoke weed. One teenage boy would play his guitar.
Children used to play in the playground.
Campers used to set up tents in the camping grounds until the fire.
A deer, a teenage boy, and others have been murdered by the Predator.
Endings
You struggle until you run out of energy and willpower. You've lost too much blood to fight any longer. A creature you recognize as the Predator is approaching you as he places leather gloves on his hands. He kneels down and pulls you up by your neck.
You take one final breath, miserable about your unforgiving fate.
if you try to take the carrot in the predator's garden.
The Predator grabs his gun, points it at you and pierces your skull. You can only feel the intense pain for a mere moment before losing consciousness.
if you try to kill the Predator in his cottage.
The Predator waits for your last breath of life before taking your body into his cottage.
if you try to take the beef jerky inside the kennel.
You have won
if you obtain eight edible items.
Inventory
Note that you can only carry one item at a time.
Food
Eat all food items you acquire.
some berries. They're in the burrow at the split path.
some chips. At the abandoned hideout, examine the stump, then open the snack bag to find the chips.
a saltines. Inside the boat at the clear lake shore, unlock the metal case with the bent fish hook, then open the case. The saltines are inside the case.
some gummies. They're inside the bucket in the playground.
some animal crackers. They're inside a box found by entering the green tunnel in the playground.
a crabapple. It's at the old fountain area.
an egg. It's in the nest in the tall tree at the weedy lake shore.
a sunflower seeds. They're inside the Predator's cottage.
Not Food
a pistol It's in the Predator's yard of junk.
Unfortunately, the game fails to give you any way to use the pistol. Ignore it; it really is junk.
a bent fish hook It's inside the boat at the clear lake shore.
Unlock the metal case (also in the boat) with the hook. Drop the hook; you no longer need it.
Score
This is the response to SCORE:
You have so far scored N out of a possible 8, in T turns.
the support of Robin Johnson, Ville Lavonius, Andrew Schultz, Kenneth Hon, Carl Muckenhoupt, Mark Musante, Phil Tatro, Allyson Gray, and Daniel Stelzer;
the generous support of Janice M Eisen, Matthew Foxley, Thomas Insel, Brian Long, and Andy Volk;
