Key & Compass presents:
Tower
by Simon Deimel

• Map
• Walkthrough
• Extras
  • Characters, Endings, Inventory
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Map

Walkthrough

chamber

Unsure of who you are or where you are, examine everything to try to find answers. Also, both exits are locked, so you'll need to find a key.

> x me. x clothes. x desk. open drawer. (☹ locked)

> x figurine. x pedestal. take figurine. (You don't need it, but still.)

> x mirror. (Blunt hint that the mirror can be talked to.)

> x painting. g. g. (Note the colours of the paintings: blue, white, red.)

> x bed. x pillow. move pillow. take bronze key. x it. look under bed.

> x table. x parchment. take it. (You can't read the parchment yet.)

> x mug. x chair. x case. open case.

> unlock drawer with key. open drawer. take silver key. x it.

> x hatch. x ladder. open hatch. (☹ locked)

> x door. open door. unlock door with silver key. open door.

> ask mirror about mirror. ask mirror about painting.

> ask mirror about artist. ask mirror about tower.

> ask mirror about sword. ask mirror about parchment.

> ask mirror about beast. ask mirror about fight.

> s.

upper landing

> x walls. touch walls. d.

lower landing

> x plate. x door. x work. open door. (☹ locked)

> d.

bottom

Both doors here are locked and without keyholes. This game loves locked doors, doesn't it?

> x desk. open drawer. hit drawer. open drawer. take golden key. x it.

> x candle. take it.

> x plain door. open it. (☹ locked)

> x ornamented door. open it. (☹ locked)

> u.

lower landing

> unlock door with golden key. open door. meditate. n.

gallery

Figure out what colours the paintings are, then place the appropriate ones on the hooks to duplicate what the gallery looks like in the painting upstairs.

> x neon. (Anachronistic, if you ask me.)

> x castle. (A castle in fog; I'd guess gray.)

> x dragon. x cave. x smoke. ("Reddish scales" suggests red.)

> x ship. x flag. x harbor. (No colour mentioned, but water is usually blue.)

> x dungeon. (No colour mentioned, but probably dark colours.)

> x moon. (A full moon would be white or silver.)

> x flower. x pot. (Yellow flower in brown pot.)

We're looking for blue-white-red, so I guess that corresponds to ship-moon-dragon.

> put ship on left. put moon on middle. put dragon on right.

Yay, that unlocks the gate.

> x gate. open it. w.

gangway

> x red door. x doorknob. open door. w.

same gangway

Arriving here has triggered two things: you can now read the parchment and the plain metal door at "bottom" has unlocked itself. Why? I dunno. Also the red door is now locked, so you must continue west.

> x door. open it. x parchment. w.

gallery

Yes, it's a bit confusing how we got back here. Perhaps our internal compass got flipped and we never went through the red door at all? Ehn, don't worry about it.

> s. d.

bottom

> open plain door. e.

square room

When the black key is visible on the vase, the hatch in the uppermost chamber is unlocked.

> x chest. open chest. read note.

> x globe. turn globe.

> x block. x vase. turn vase. x black key.

> w. u. u. n.

chamber

We still need our sword. The parchment tells us how to get it.

> take case. s. d. d.

bottom

> drop case. close it. open it. take sword. x it.

> u. u. n.

chamber

Last chance to converse with the mirror. After the battle, the mirror is silent. (Yes, I know we haven't seen any monolith yet. But it's ask now or never.)

> ask mirror about vasa hatch. ask mirror about vase.

> ask mirror about red door. ask mirror about monolith.

> open hatch. u.

platform

You'll act on automatic for a couple turns here.

> x beast. kill beast. z. z.

You've dropped everything but the sword. And "take all" isn't permitted.

> look. x coin. take it.

> x moon. take it. x rail. climb rail.

> x landscape. x lump. x path. xyzzy.

> d. s. d. d.

bottom

There's a scrap of paper on the ornamented door that wasn't there before.

> x paper. knock ornamented door. open it. n.

outdoors

> x tower. x hill. x grassland. x path. x monolith. n.

monolith place

Any interaction with the painting triggers your return to the museum.

> climb monolith. take it. x painting.

museum room

You come to your senses in front of a painting of the tower. It's called "The Red Door" by V. Hatch.

*** MEMORIES WILL REMAIN ***

Note: The ending will change slightly if you don't have the coin.

Extras

Characters

• The mirror in the chamber will answer some of your questions. Although you don't see your mirror image talk, nor hear it make any actual sound, you can hear its voice in your head.
• The dragon is your enemy, whom you must fight.
• Vasa Hatch wrote the note in the square room's chest. According to the mirror, it's the name of an artist. But if you ask the mirror about the artist, you're told he created the world.
• Your girlfriend asks if you're okay when you return to the museum.

Endings

• MEMORIES WILL FADE if you return to the museum room without the coin.
• MEMORIES WILL REMAIN if you return to the museum room with the coin.

Note that it's not possible to die by, say, visiting the dragon without the sword. The game won't let you open the hatch unless you're carrying the sword, and it assumes you still have the sword when you go up onto the platform.

Inventory

• some cotton clothes. You're wearing them. Leave them on.
• a figurine. It's on the desk in the chamber. You don't need it.
• a bronze key. Find it by moving the pillow on the chamber's bed. The key unlocks the chamber desk's drawer.
• a parchment. It's on the table in the chamber. Take it. You won't be able to read it until you reach "same gangway"; you'll hear a pen scribbling on paper. Read the parchment to learn how to get the sword.
• a mug. It's on the table in the chamber. You don't need it.
• a case. It's in the chamber. Take it; it's initially empty. After reading the parchment's clue, take the case to the bottom of the staircase and drop it there. Close the case if it's currently open. Now open the case: the sword is inside!
• a silver key. It's inside the locked desk drawer in the chamber; unlock the desk drawer with the bronze key. The silver key unlocks the door in the chamber.
• a golden key. It's inside the stuck desk drawer at the bottom of the staircase. Hit the drawer to unstick it, then open the drawer. The golden key unlocks the wooden door at lower landing that leads to the gallery.
• a candle. It's on the wooden desk at the bottom of the staircase. You don't need it.
• a castle painting. It's in the gallery. You don't need it.
• a dragon painting. It's in the gallery. Examine it; note the dragon is red. Put the dragon painting on the right hook of the gallery; this is clued by the painting in the chamber.
• a ship painting. It's in the gallery. Assume the water in the painting is blue. Put the ship painting on the left hook of the gallery; this is clued by the painting in the chamber.
• a dungeon painting. It's in the gallery. You don't need it.
• a moon painting. It's in the gallery. Examine it; a full moon is white. Put the moon painting on the middle hook of the gallery; this is clued by the painting in the chamber.
• a flower painting. It's in the gallery. You don't need it.
• a note. It's in the small chest in the square room. Read it to learn you need to turn something. It turns out you need to turn the vase in the square room to unlock the hatch in the chamber.
• a globe. It's in the square room. You don't need it.
• a sword. To find it, take the case from the chamber to the bottom of the staircase, then drop the case, close it (if necessary), and open the case there. The sword will be inside the case; this is clued by the parchment. You need the sword when you confront the dragon on the platform.
• a coin. It's on the platform after you defeat the dragon. Take it. Having the coin at the end of the game will change the ending slightly.
• a scrap of paper. It's on the ornamented door at the bottom of the staircase, but only after you defeat the dragon. Read it; it's a clue to knock the door.

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