Key & Compass presents:
This Is The Toaster
by Anonymous

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

Walkthrough

It begins with a warning about half-cooked imagery and graphically absurd scenes.

> ENTER

Lever

Let's just look around a bit before we pull the lever and get down to business.

> x me. i. x lever. d.

Dial

The dial's setting seems to be ignored by the game.

> x dial. x gecko. take gecko. (Can't)

> u. u. w. nw.

Plidi's cavern

> x Plidi. x staff.

> ask Plidi for staff. (She wants a square for her daughter.)

> nw. sw.

Clebb's home

> push button. (Toast is ready!)

*** You have won ***

But the game is hardly over.

> sw. e. d.

Lever

> pull lever. ENTER

Future Plane

Here, TADS gets to show off its ability to easily change all its responses from present tense to future tense. Normally, a change to past tense is more useful.

Soon after arriving, Aunt Krull will tell you that Os Esker needs you to obtain, then give, the Amulet of Rotund Quickness to him.

> e.

eastern seaboard of the Future plane

> x plant. w.

Future Plane

> pull lever. ENTER

Lever

> u. w.

western slot

Wait for Os Esker to arrive.

> ask Os for square. (Os gives it.)

> x square. nw.

Plidi's cavern

> give square to Plidi. ask Plidi for staff. (She gives it.)

> nw.

western slot

Clebb and Os Esker constantly wander, but they both pass through here. You'll need to wait or z repeatedly as appropriate.

Wait for Clebb to arrive, then:

> give staff to Clebb.

Wait for Clebb to arrive, then:

> ask Clebb for amulet. (He gives it.)

Wait for Os Esker to arrive, then:

> give amulet to Os.

Os Esker grows, goes to the chasm at the end of the Future Plane, jumps over the gap and cuts down the Deity Plant.

> ENTER

With the Deity Plant dead, Plidi will soon reveal a weapon.

The evil god will be killed by his sandwich, before his second slice of toast is done.

This game is over.

Extras

Characters

Stationary characters:

• Plidi is in her cave. She's rich and carries the Staff of Life.
• A gecko is stuck head-first in the wall near the dial. Os Esker might free it.

Wandering characters:

• Clebb has five eyes, steel ears, a floating hat, an amulet, and rolls of fat.
• Os Esker is strong, slow, has a longsword and a cleaning rag. And a square.

Seen, but you can't interact with them:

• Aunt Krull appears to you on the Future Plane to tell you what to do.
• The Carbohydrate Pirate makes brief appearances everywhere, asking about toast.
• An enormous ant crawls across the sky above the slots.
• Kelci, Plidi's daughter, needs a square for a school project. She sometimes appears in Plidi's cavern.
• The Deity Plant is a giant vine seen on the other side of the fissure.

Mentioned:

• Some engineers are helping Kelci with her project.
• The evil god is someone that Plidi (and maybe the others) wants dead.

Inventory

• a square. Acquire it by asking Os Esker for it. Give the square to Plidi.
• a Staff of Life. After giving the square to Plidi, acquire the Staff by asking Plidi for it. Give the Staff to Clebb.
• a Amulet of Rotund Quickness. After giving the Staff to Clebb, acquire the amulet by asking Clebb for it. Give the amulet to Os Esker.

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