Key & Compass presents:
The Two Seasons: Encounter With A Vampire
by Andrew Apted

• Map of Creaky Springs High School
• Walkthrough
  • First Act
  • Second Act
  • Third Act
• Extras
  • Characters, Credits, Endings, Inventory
• Thank You to my Patreon supporters
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Map of Creaky Springs High School

Walkthrough

Introduction

You get a quick introduction to the protagonists, Maddy and Matty.

>> SPACE

First Act

History Classroom

> x me. i. x backpack.

> x whiteboard. read it.

> x desks. x chairs.

> stand.

Maddy thinks Mr Prior (the computing teacher) is a vampire. They decide to have lunch with Miss Reid in the library.

> w.

E Block

> w. (Brodie, the hall monitor, stops you from entering any classroom during the lunch hour.)

> x Brodie.

> s. w.

Central hallway, D Block

Matty wonders if Mr Prior was responsible for Noel (a kid) disappearing on the weekend.

Matty wonders if Buffy (Maddy's distant cousin) could help. Maddy doesn't think so.

Matty wonders if Aleesha (a witch friend) could help.

> w.

Central hallway, C Block

> x lockers. x floorplan.

> s.

Library Foyer

Aleesha discreetly calls you both into the...

Study Room

Aleesha reveals that Mr Prior is in the storeroom with Miss Reid. Are they dating?

You tell Aleesha your suspicions about Mr Prior being a vampire. Aleesha suggests searching Prior's office for proof. Aleesha will distract Brodie if necessary. Lunch is delayed.

> w.

Library Foyer

> x Aleesha. x desk. x paraphernalia. (includes scanner)

> x carpet. x catalog.

> n. w. s.

B Block

> sw. (locked)

Matty now reveals that the computer lab's server room also leads to the office.

> w. (Aleesha distracts Brodie.)

Computer Lab

> x desks. x terminals. x cables.

> x whiteboard. read it. (some LISP code)

> s.

Server Room

> x server. x wires.

> e.

Mr Prior's Office

You automatically ungag Noel who confirms that Mr Prior is a vampire and feeding off of him.

Because untying Noel would alert Mr Prior, you decide it's up to you two (and Aleesha) to somehow deal with the vampire yourselves.

Matty feeds Noel a sandwich, then re-gags him. You retreat back to...

Server Room

> n. e.

B Block

You update Aleesha. She suggests going to library to make plans.

> n. e. s.

Library Foyer

You note that Prior and Reid are still at it in the storeroom before auto-entering the study room.

Study Room

Aleesha tells you about real vampires, about a Golemganger spell she can use to clone you two, and outlines a plan to trap and kill the vampire in the sunny courtyard.

She needs you to find a double-flowered plant, a chemical containing a double bond, and a part of an animal who clones to reproduce. She also needs chalk and a flame source.

The plan can go into effect after school when no one else is around. Find her in home economics when you have everything.

> w. n.

Central hallway, C Block

Maddy wants to get a lighter from Suzanne, the senior who smokes by the bikeshed. She's pretty nasty, though. And you need to get the lighter before the lunch bell rings.

> e. e. e.

Back of the Bikeshed

> x Suzanne. talk to Suzanne. (ineffective)

> x ring. x lighter.

> x boys. x ball. x shed. x butts.

> ask Suzanne for lighter. take lighter.

> pull ring. (no)

> take ball. (ha, no)

> dance. (That works!)

You run back inside with the lighter. Lunch break is over. You go to English class.

>> SPACE

Second Act

End of the school day. The hallways are deserted, and you've put your books into your lockers.

Central hallway, C Block

Maddy suggests reading up about the ingredients in the library.

> s. s.

Library Seating

> x shelves. (They find three books.)

> x chemistry book. read it. (Look for ethylene, acetone, or dimethyl sulfoxide.)

> x biology book. read it. (Look for for a brahminy blind snake, an Amazon molly, or a desert grassland whiptail.)

> x botany book. read it. (Look for camellias, carnations, or roses.)

> n. w.

Storeroom

> x racks. x books. x book.

> ask Miss about Prior.

> ask Miss about chalk. (Check the music room.)

> e. n. w. w.

Central hallway, A Block

> open door. (Mr Boskey, the janitor, is drunk.)

> x Boskey. x shoe. x laces. take laces.

> x broom. take it. (Boskey won't release it.)

> x bottle. take it. (no)

> n. w.

Automotive Shop

> x workbenches. x toolbox. open it. (locked)

> x car. x screwdriver.

> enter car. (can't)

> unlock car. (gap is too narrow)

If you go ask Aleesha about the screwdriver, she suggests unlocking the car with a bent wire coat hanger. You don't have one of those, but the shoelace can do the job.

> unlock car with lace. (success)

> take screwdriver.

> e. e.

Woodworking Shop

> x benches. x tools.

> w. s. e. e. n. w.

Science Lab

> x whiteboard. read it. (diagram of Ethylene)

> n.

Chemical Pantry

> x acetone. take it.

> s. e. e.

Biology Lab

> x Mr.

> x snake. ("Brahminy Blind Snake"; there's shed skin)

> x skin. take it. (McGrodie stops you.)

> x butterflies. x porcupine.

> x tooth. x talon. x ambergris. x coffee.

> ask Mr about ambergris.

> ask Mr about tooth.

> ask Mr about talon.

> ask Mr about butterflies.

> ask Mr about snake.

> ask Mr about porcupine.

> ask Mr about son.

> ask Mr about janitor.

> ask Mr about Reid.

> read whiteboard. ask Mr about DNA.

> ask Mr about coffee.

If you go ask Aleesha about Mr McGrodie, she mentions that he's vain about his appearance.

> spill coffee.

The coffee stains Mr McG's pants, and he leaves, annoyed. And he pulls Brodie out of football practice for some reason.

> take skin.

> w. s. e. e. n. w.

Music Classroom

> x Connie. (more interested in gardening)

> ask Connie about flute.

> ask Connie about flowers. (school's roses are double-flowered)

> x piano. play piano.

> x blackboard. read it.

> x chalk. take chalk. take eraser.

> e. s. e. n.

Outside Chapel

> x door. x roof. x spire.

> open door. (locked)

> x mat. look under it.

> x pots. look under pots. x key.

> unlock door with key. e.

Inside Chapel

> x crosses. unscrew crosses. (with screwdriver)

> x Jesus. x pews. x altar.

> x tabernacle. open it. x wine. x bread.

> take wine. take bread. eat bread.

> w.

Outside Chapel

> close door.

> s. w. w. w. w. w.

Central hallway, A Block

> give wine to janitor. (He passes out.)

> take broom.

> n. e.

Woodworking Shop

> carve broom. x stake.

> w. s. e. s. e.

Courtyard

> x flowers. x roses. take rose.

> take twig. x it.

> e. e.

Home Economics Kitchen

> x benches. x sink. x oven. open drawers.

> tell Aleesha about janitor.

Time to give Aleesha everything she asked for:

> give chalk. give lighter.

> give acetone. give rose. give skin.

>> SPACE

Third Act

Home Economics Kitchen

Aleesha casts her spell. It's a great effort, but you now have clones.

Aleesha tells the clones to take the crosses and wait in the courtyard. She tells the real yous to lure Mr Prior there. Then she goes home to rest.

> w. w.

Courtyard

The clones take their positions.

> w. w. s. e.

Mr Prior's Office

You surprise Mr Prior in his office. He chases you into the courtyard ...

Courtyard

... and now he's trapped by the crosses and sunlight. But now Matty's backpack zipper is stuck!

> open backpack. (Matty is now holding the stake.)

> stab vampire. (The vampire knocks the stake under a bench.)

> take stake. (The direct sunlight is gone.)

> stab vampire. (Success!)

The vampire is dust. The clones pop like balloons and drop their crosses. You rescue Noel and figure out what your story will be.

>> SPACE

Conclusion

All's well that ends well and you've made new friends too.

*** The End ***

>> E (for Extra Things To Do)

>> S (for Soundtrack information)

>> Q (to Quit)

Extras

Characters

The two player characters act as a team player-character in this game:

• Madison "Maddy" Summers is a self-confessed music geek. She plays guitar.
• Matthew "Matty" Winter is her best friend. He's shy and plays the electronic organ.

The non-player characters:

• Mr Vance Prior is the computing teacher and a vampire.
• Brodie McGrodie is the over-zealous hall monitor. He also plays football, or at least tries to. No one ever throws the ball to him.
• Aleesha Gorrick is a junior at the school with an innate talent for witchcraft, but few people know about that.
• Noel Deroche is a kid who disappeared on the weekend. You find him tied up and gagged in Mr Prior's office. The vampire has been feeding off of him!
• Miss Reid is the sympathetic librarian. She'll never know how close she was to becoming the vampire's next victim.
• Suzanne Edgewater is the meanest girl in the school. During the first act, she's smoking a cigarette behind the bikeshed.
• Mr Oliver Boskey is the school janitor and an alcoholic. It's implied he started drinking after his wife left him. During the second act, he's nearly passed out in his closet.
• Mr Tobias McGrodie is the biology teacher, Brodie's father, and a balding man with impeccable style.
• Connie Strewed is the blonde girl in the music classroom struggling to play the flute. She prefers gardening.
• Your clones are conjured into existence by Aleesha in the Home Economics kitchen at the start of the third act. They share your memories and personalities, and they act independently of you, but they're also just balloons made from cookie dough. Act quickly. They burst after a half-hour.
• Some boys are playing handball near the gymnasium during the first act.

Mentioned:

• Other students barely get a cameo when the bell signaling the end of lunch rings.
• Buffy (the Vampire Slayer) is a distant cousin of Maddy's. Very distant.
• Tara McChew is Aleesha's pet rat. The name is a reference to the Tara Maclay character on Buffy.
• Mr Anthony is the principal.
• The police fail to find any trace of Mr Prior.
• Wesley Windbag III wrote all three library books.
• Jane Austen wrote "Persuasion".
• Jesus is depicted in pictures in the chapel.

Credits

This is the Credits section of the response to ABOUT or CREDITS:

All writing and coding for this game by Andrew Apted.

No generative AI has been used to develop this game.

Many thanks to my testers: improvmonster, Mike Russo, Allyson Gray, and Andrew Schultz.

The cover was created by the author, using three awesome images from the Openclipart website which are under the CC0 (Creative Commons Zero) license, very similar to being public domain.

The floorplan and welcome mat images were also created by the author, using a compass rose sourced from Openclipart, plus toilet signs and a reed mat photograph sourced from Wikimedia Commons.

Endings

In one sense, there are two endings:

• Matty stabs the vampire. It disintegrates into dust.
• Matty fails to stab the vampire within a reasonable number of turns. The vampire flees from the courtyard and from the town.

But after the vampire is gone, one way or the other, the conclusion is the same. The clones pop like balloons. You free Noel. You make up a story about Mr Prior being a child predator and never mention the vampire part. The police never find Mr Prior. The janitor gets help for his drinking. And you, Aleesha, and Noel become good friends. The End.

So is there one ending or two? You decide.

Inventory

In this game, the INVENTORY command has been repurposed to list your current tasks. Since most of your tasks involve finding specific things, your progress is reported by listing the things you've collected, followed by reminders of which things you still need to get or do.

A minor consequence of that reframing is that some things you actually have (backpack, lunch, schoolbooks) aren't listed if those things aren't task-related.

Items are listed here in the order they're acquired in this walkthrough.

• a backpack. Matty is carrying it.
• For the majority of the game, you can ignore the backpack. It isn't mentioned by INVENTORY because everything you acquire automatically goes into it; it is your inventory container.
• When the game starts, the backpack is holding Matty's lunch, but the lunch isn't listed by INVENTORY either. Matty ends up giving his lunch to Noel when you find him tied up in Mr Prior's office.
• Late in the game, during the battle with the vampire, the backpack's zipper gets stuck. Just OPEN BACKPACK to force it open.
• a lighter. Suzanne has it. She's the nasty girl who's smoking a cigarette behind the bikeshed during the first act.
• First, politely ask Suzanne for the lighter. Of course, she sees this as an invitation to play keep-away with it. Then dance to distract her while your other half takes her lighter. Alternatively, poke her with the twig to distract her.
• In the home economics kitchen, give the lighter to Aleesha.
• a yellow shoelace. It's laced into the janitor's shoe, the shoe that's sticking out of the janitor's closet at the west end of the central hallway. The janitor is drunk enough that he won't notice you taking his shoelace.
• In the automotive shop, unlock the car with the shoelace. You manage this feat by snagging the lock button with a loop of the shoelace, then pulling both upward.
• a screwdriver. It's inside the car in the automotive shop. To open the car door, unlock it with the shoelace.
• Inside the chapel, unscrew the crosses with the screwdriver.
• a bottle of acetone. It's in the chemical pantry at the north end of the science lab.
• Note that you won't take any of the chemicals from the pantry until you know which chemical you need. You must first either read the chemistry book in the library or ask Aleesha about double bonds. Aleesha is really into chemistry.
• In the home economics kitchen, give the acetone to Aleesha.
• some snake skin. It's in the snake cage in the biology lab.
• You can't open the cage while Mr McGrodie is there. If you ask Aleesha about him, you learn that he's vain about having clean clothes. Spill his coffee to get him to leave.
• You also won't take the skin unless you're sure that's the animal sample you need. You must first either read the biology book in the library or ask Mr McGrodie about the snake, cloning, or reproduction.
• In the home economics kitchen, give the snake skin to Aleesha.
• a piece of chalk. It's on the blackboard ledge in the music classroom.
• In the home economics kitchen, give the chalk to Aleesha.
• an eraser. It's on the blackboard ledge in the music classroom.
• You don't need the eraser at all. And please don't erase the blackboard with it; Connie is trying to learn the music written there.
• a rusty old key. Acquire it by looking under the terracotta pots outside the chapel during the second act.
• Unlock the chapel's large door with the key.
• Don't worry about putting the key back afterwards. You can count on Maddy to do that after the game is over.
• some crosses. They're screwed to the walls inside the chapel. Unscrew them with the screwdriver to obtain them.
• When the third act begins, you automatically give the crosses to your clones. Everyone uses the crosses at the appropriate time without your explicit direction.
• a bottle of wine. It's inside the tabernacle inside the church.
• Give the bottle to the janitor. He drinks the wine and falls asleep. Now you can take his broom.
• a loaf of bread. It's inside the tabernacle inside the church.
• Feel free to eat it. After all, Matty gave his lunch to Noel, and Matty needs to eat too, right?
• a broom. The janitor, Mr Boskey, is holding onto the broom as if it's his only friend. He's in the janitor's closet at the central hallway, A block.
• Give the bottle of wine to Boskey. He immediately drinks it and passes out. Take the broom.
• In the woodworking shop, carve the broom. It's now a sharp wooden stake.
• a sharp wooden stake. Make it by carving the broom in the woodworking shop.
• When the vampire is trapped in the courtyard, open the backpack to get the stake. Try to stab the vampire; the vampire manages to knock it out of your grasp. Take the stake and try to stab the vampire again. This time, you succeed.
• a pink rose. Take a rose from the courtyard flowers.
• Note that you won't pick any of the flowers until you know which flower you need. You must first either read the botany book in the library, or ask Connie about flowers.
• In the home economics kitchen, give the rose to Aleesha.
• a long twig. Find it by examining the flowers in the courtyard.
• You don't need the twig. It's not long enough to reach the screwdriver, not bendy enough to reach the car door's lock, and too thin to be carved into a stake.
• During the first act, at the back of the bikeshed, you may poke Suzanne with the twig as an alternate way of obtaining her lighter, but dancing is simpler.
• In the biology lab, you may also push the coffee with the twig to spill it, but just spilling or pushing the coffee without any tool is simpler.

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