Key & Compass presents:
Vampire Ltd
by Alex Harby

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

• The Interview Room is renamed to the Prayer Room when you open its cupboard and see all the holy symbols inside.

Walkthrough

Campus Entrance

> x Hadrian. x umbrella. (black and open)

> x Moonlite. x crowd.

The speech ends, and everyone else leaves.

> x banner. (You see a phone number for a customer service job.)

> x me. x blood bag. x stage.

> x booth. in.

Inside the Phone Booth

>> 1 (You call the Lunarcel job number.)

>> 1 (re: job opening)

>> 1 (re: allowed into campus)

>> 1 (bye)

Campus Entrance

> n.

Campus Central

> x signpost. w.

Campus West

> x office. n.

Office

> x manager. x list.

> talk to manager.

>> 1 (re job interview)

She leads you to...

Interview Room

I note that your alias, "Oren Vohsarb" is just your real name "Nero Brashov" backwards.

It's best to choose the last options during this interview.

>> 4 (re: dream to serve)

>> 4 (re: challenge and inspire)

>> 6 (re: perfectionist)

The job is yours.

Office

You're now at a desk with a computer, and you're wearing a new ID card.

> x card. x desk. x computer. use it.

>> 1 (check email)

>> 1 (re password security)

>> 2 (re free money)

>> 3 (close email)

>> 2 (do your job? nope)

>> 2 (check games)

>> 3 (stop using computer)

> n.

Interview Room / Prayer Room

> open cupboard. (A box falls out.)

> close cupboard.

> x box. take it. s.

Office

> talk to manager.

>> 1 (re job duties)

>> 2 (re breaks)

>> 3 (re meeting room)

>> 4 (bye)

> s. e. n.

Lobby

> x receptionist. x computer. x grapes.

> talk to him.

>> 1 (hi)

>> 1 (re work environment)

>> 1 (re quitting)

>> 2 (re fruit: help yourself)

>> 1 (re Alba)

>> 1 (re Alba's location)

>> 1 (re lab authorisation)

>> 1 (re executives can change cards)

>> 2 (bye)

> take grapes. n.

Hade's Office

> x tables. x posters. x computer.

> use it. (You don't know the password.)

> s.

Lobby

> talk to receptionist.

>> 2 (re Alba's password: He remembers after shouting.)

>> 3 (bye)

> n.

Hade's Office

> shout. (The computer wakes up.)

>> 1 (check email)

>> 1 (re Moonlite efficiency)

>> 2 (re password)

>> 4 (re update request)

>> 5 (quit email)

>> 2 (edit permissions)

>> 1 (browse list)

>> 2 (enable yourself)

>> 2 (disable Hadrian: fail)

>> 2 (quit permissions)

>> 3 (check games)

>> 4 (quit computer)

> s. s. e.

Campus East

> x water. x worker. talk to her.

>> 1 (re protest)

>> 1 (re other protesters)

>> 1 (re vampire goodness)

>> 1 (re fixing leak: she wants raisins)

>> 6 (bye)

> suck grapes. x grapes.

> put grapes in box. give box to worker.

She quickly uses some duct tape to fix the leak.

> n.

Laboratory Entrance

> x reader. put card in reader. n.

Engineering Lab

Hadrian immediately greets you.

>> 1 (surprised?)

>> 2 (re stealing employees)

>> 2 (re machine)

>> 3 (claim you don't care)

>> 3 ("Of... being a vampire?")

>> 1 (how?)

>> 1 (they prototyped a reactor?)

>> 2 (shame if someone took it)

Hadrian uses the machine to energize himself and advances towards you. The engineers flee.

Run to the prayer room!

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

Prayer Room

> open cupboard. (He recoils.)

> stab Hadrian with umbrella. (He's dust.)

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

Engineering Lab

> x machine. push button.

*** The world is yours ***

> undo. destroy machine.

*** The world is a little fairer ***

> amusing

Extras

Amusing

This is the response to AMUSING after you've won the game:

Have you tried...

• biting yourself?
• biting people? during the fight with Hadrian? after the fight?
• biting the blood bag? during the fight with Hadrian?
• closing your umbrella outside and waiting? during Hadrian's speech? in front of the janitor? during the fight with Hadrian?
• hypnotising someone? something? (try >HYPNOTIZE _____ or similar verbs)
• kissing someone? Hadrian? yourself?
• cursing?
• beating E4M2 of The Ultimate Doom, "Perfect Hatred", on Ultra-Violence from a pistol start?
• leading Hadrian to the receptionist during the fight?
• calling the emergency services? during the fight with Hadrian?
• fleeing the campus during the fight with Hadrian? (try going south from the Campus Entrance)
• using the receptionist's computer? after biting him?

Characters

• Hadrian Alba is a rich and famous vampire and entrepreneur. Luck and lies are his key to success.
• A crowd of idiots at the campus entrance are enthralled with Hadrian's presentation.
• A manager is in the office. She's a bundle of stress in a turtleneck sweater.
• A receptionist is in the lobby. He hates his job and the company, but he can't afford to quit.
• A janitor is on strike in campus east. She wants some raisins.
• The engineers in the lab are the eggheads who did the actual work of building the Moonlite.
• Workers for Lunarcel are in the background, trying to work and getting yelled at. The receptionist tells you that most people quit after a few months.

Mentioned:

• Emergency services (campus police) can be called from the phone booth, but any complaint you have against Hadrian will be disbelieved.
• Other vampires such as Count Urât and Baroness Neplacut have been granted day passes for lab, but not you.

Credits

This is the text from the game's ABOUT menu item "About Vampire Ltd (including credits)":

About Vampire Ltd (including credits)

ABOUT:
Vampire Ltd is a game by Alex Harby (email redacted, @wisprabbit on Twitter, comfortcastle on itch.io and IFDb).
This is version 4, the probably-final version, which adds developer commentary and fixes one or two things.

Vampire Ltd was an entrant in the 26th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (IFComp 2020), where it finished 13th out of 103 entries.

CREDITS:
Written by Alex Harby.

Made using Inform 7 by Graham Nelson, via the Inform 7 Windows IDE by David Kinder.
Includes the Reactable Quips and Quip-Based Conversation extensions by Michael Martin (using versions updated for Inform 7 build 6M62 by Melvin Rangasamy) and the Basic Help Menu extension by Emily Short (including her instructions for new players), and the Footnotes extension by Stephen Granade.

Borrows from example code written by Graham Nelson, Emily Short, Jim Aikin and Melvin Rangasamy (annotated in the source code as appropriate).

Beta-tested by AKheon, Christopher Merriner, Dark Star, Mathbrush, Mike Russo and Peter M. J. Gross. Many thanks to all of them.

Thanks to Mike Sousa, Stian and Patrick Mooney for sending transcripts of the IFComp version over for bugfixing. Thanks to ClubFloyd for their playthrough which revealed a couple of errors. Apologies to the IFComp judges whose transcripts I forgot to download before the competition closed. Any remaining errors in this game are my own fault.

Thanks to Dannii Willis and the IFComp organisers for technical support during IFComp 2020. Thanks to everyone who reviewed the game during the comp. I really needed the positive feedback sometimes.

I am indebted to Taika Waititi and Jermaine Clement's What We Do In The Shadows and Abigail Corfman's 16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds, and hope I haven't stolen any of their jokes.

Endings

• You have been incinerated
• if you spend three turns exposed to sunlight.
• He follows you and kills you
• if you leave the campus while in mid-battle with Hadrian.
• The world is a little fairer
• if you destroy the machine.
• The world is yours
• if you use the machine for yourself.

Inventory

• an umbrella. You're carrying it.
• Leave it open when outside; otherwise, the sunshine will destroy you.
• In the prayer room, after making Hadrian recoil by opening the cupboard full of holy symbols, stab Hadrian with the umbrella.
• a blood bag. You're carrying it, and it's initially full.
• You may BITE BAG to suck up all its blood, but this is entirely optional. Feel free to discard the empty bag afterwards.
• The bag is in the game primarily to tell you about the BITE command which you need to know for the grapes puzzle. (Well, I used SUCK, but it's the same action for vampires.)
• an ID card. After your successful job interview, you're wearing this card.
• In Hade's office, shout to log onto his fancy computer. Choose the option to edit permissions, then choose the option to give yourself all the permissions.
• In the laboratory entrance, put your card into the reader to unlock the door there.
• some grapes. They're free to take in the lobby.
• Suck them to make some dessicated grapes. Now put the grapes into the empty raisin box, then give the box to the worker at Campus East. She fixes the water leak so you can enter.
• an empty raisin box. It falls out of the cupboard in the interview room when you open the cupboard.
• Put some dessicated grapes into the box to make a box full of raisins, then gives the box to the worker at Campus East. She fixes the water leak so you can enter.

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