Key & Compass presents:
Weary Eerie Way
by Andrew Schultz

• Map
• Walkthrough
• Extras
  • Characters, Credits, Inventory, Score
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Map

• The location "Room Day Drawer" is renamed to "Ate-Cray Crate" when the drawer itself leaves.
• The location "Blimp Limp Bay" is renamed to "Steer 'Ere Stay" when you acquire a Rope Gay-Grope.

Walkthrough

Blimp Limp Bay

You crashland a blimp. Ump-Gray-Grump offers to fix it for you, but they need something to fix it with.

Oh, and you need to avoid the Urp-Slay-Slurp. I forget if it wants to eat you or read you some of its poetry, but it's a nasty piece of work. Made a Nana bay "Banana!".

> verbs. (The four compass directions and USE are all you need.)

> n.

Roar Day Drawer

No, you can't SOCK DRAWER. Sorry, but that's not the sort of wordplay we're doing here. That drawer's in the Argh Aisle.

> e. (it blocks you)

> s. (You get an id-Lay Lid.)

Blimp Limp Bay

> e.

Bill-Ill Bay

> n. (Not-Say Snot stops you.)

> w. (You get Weak-Eek Whey.)

Blimp Limp Bay

> n.

Roar Day Drawer

> use whey on drawer. (+1; drawer leaves. It has a certain whey about it.)

> e. (Not yet.)

> s. e.

Bill-Ill Bay

> use lid on snot. (+1; snot leaves.)

> n.

X Ray Wrecks

Okay, you need to backtrack at least once from here before continuing.

> w.

Ate-Cray Crate (formerly Roar Day Drawer)

Oh, right, without the drawer here, the room name had to change. You're not upset are you? It's not like your favorite restaurant got replaced with a vape shop. Sigh. But things do change, don't they?

> e. e.

Sneer Near, Say

> w. (You get a Cram Say Scram.)

X Ray Wrecks

> n.

Stirrer Stay

> s. (You get a Kill Say Skill.)

X Ray Wrecks

> e.

Snear Near, Say

> use skill on slump. (+1; slump leaves.)

> w. n.

Stirrer Stay

> use scram on slug. (+1; slug leaves.)

> e.

Craze-Raise Cay

> s. (You get a 'E'll-Stay Steel.)

> n. w.

Stirrer Stay

> i. (You have a Hard-Say Shard)

> s. s.

Bill-Ill Bay

You now have a Own-Gray-Groan. You just needed to retreat this far away from Skull.

> n. n. e.

Craze-Raise Cay

> use groan on skull. (+1; skull gone)

Okay, the next thing you must do is go every direction from every location, then go to X Ray Wrecks. It's not the locations that matter, but the traversals. Do a figure-eight in one direction:

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

Now, turn around and do another figure-eight in the other direction:

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

Now go to X Ray Wrecks:

> w. s.

X Ray Wrecks

You now have a Rope Gay-Grope for going every away way.

> w. s.

Steer 'Ere Stay (formerly Blimp Limp Bay)

> use grope on ump. (+1)

*** Winnin' Way! ***

Extras

Characters

Honestly, I don't know what any on these creatures actually are. Some may be people. Some may be animals. Some may be animated furniture. I don't know. They're all amorphous blobs with weird nametags as far I'm concerned.

• Ump-Gray-Grump is in Blimp Limp Bay and they're your only friend in this game. I picture them as Oscar the Grouch in Dorothy's black-and-white Kansas. They will fix your blimp for you if you use a Rope Gay-Grope on them. Sounds kinky, but it isn't.
• Roar Day Drawer blocks your way east in a location named after itself. Use some whey on it and it'll go away.
• Not-Say Snot blocks your way north in Bill-Ill Bay. Use a lid on it and it'll go away.
• Lump-Say-Slump blocks your way north in "Sneer Near, Say". Use a Kill Say Skill on the Slump and it's gone.
• Lug Say Slug blocks your way east in Stirrer Stay. Use a Cram Say Scram on the Slug and it's gone.
• Skull-Say-Cull is your arch-nemesis in this game. To defeat whatever it is, use an Own-Gray-Groan on the Skull.
• Urp-Slay-Slurp is the local monster, I believe. Imagine Slimer from Ghostbusters without the ability to fly, running around on very short legs, chasing you the entire time. It attacks only at the very end of the game and it's automatically defeated by your own blimp. Hilarious.

Credits

This is the response to CREDITS:

Weary Eerie Way is an entry in the 2021 EctoComp Petite Mort (English version) and was a spinoff of my IFComp 2020 game, Under They Thunder. It was originally written for 2020 EctoComp, but I forgot the deadline was early October 31 and not the end of the day.

After UTT sprawled on me (I went from being glad there was anything at all to having too much,) I sat down and limited myself to amusingly ("amusingly") surreal stuff and the best ideas that didn't fit. And this popped out.

The release version, due to the time limit, had no testers, but I would like to thank my testers from UTT and all who played it, as well as Olaf Nowacki for moral support. He has an entry in the Petite Mort too! Oh, and the IFComp 2021 authors' subforum. Several of them entered something, too!

I would also like to thank JJ Guest for creating EctoComp, Duncan Bowsman for stepping in and Ruber Eaglenest for running it currently, and itch.io for hosting EctoComp and other comps that help me just remember to play others' stuff.

And thanks to svgrepo.com for the blimp SVG for the cover art.

Inventory

You'll pick these up automatically as you find them. You can't usefully examine anything in this game, only use them on other characters.

• an id-Lay Lid. You acquire it when you first go south from Roar Day Drawer.
• In Bill-Ill Bay, use the lid on Not-Say Snot to defeat it.
• some Weak-Eek Whey. You acquire it when you first go west from Bill-Ill Bay.
• In Roar Day Drawer, use the whey on Roar Day Drawer to defeat it.
• a Cram Say Scram. You acquire it when you first go west from Sneer Near, Say.
• In Stirrer Stay, use the scram on the Lug Say Slug to defeat it.
• a Kill Say Skill. You acquire it when you first go south from Stirrer Stay.
• In Snear Near, Say, use the skill on the Lump-Say-Slump to defeat it.
• a 'E'll-Stay Steel. You acquire it the first time you leave Craze-Raise Cay by any direction.
• You don't use the steel directly, but the story does. It's a sword, yes?
• a Hard-Say Shard. You acquire it the second time you leave Craze-Raise Cay by any direction.
• You don't use the shard directly, but the story does. It's a shield, okay?
• a Own-Gray-Groan. You acquire it the first time you go either west or south from X Ray Wrecks while holding the Hard-Say Shard.
• In Craze-Raise Cay, use the groan on Skull-Say-Cull to defeat it. It can't bear a tone.
• a Rope Gay-Grope. You acquire it in X Ray Wrecks after going every direction possible from every location after Skull is defeated. Just, y'know, make a figure eight in one direction, turn around, and make another figure eight in the other direction. Pretend you have Kate's Say-Skates.
• In Steer 'Ere Stay, formerly known as Blimp Limp Bay, use the gay-grope on Ump. It's not remotely sexual at all. It's like a ballpeen hammer. Ump fixes your blimp, and you wake up, and your life is so much better now. (pause) Because of the life lessons you learned. (pause) What do you mean, you forgot everything when you woke up? Do you need to play the game again? Oh, now you remember. Well, okay then.

Score

This is the response to SCORE:

You have so far scored your-score out of a possible 6, in several turns.

Points are awarded as follows:

• 1 point for defeating Roar Day Drawer.
• 1 point for defeating Not-Say Snot.
• 1 point for defeating Lump-Say-Slump.
• 1 point for defeating Lug Say Slug.
• 1 point for defeating Skull-Say-Cull.
• 1 point for teaching Ump-Gray-Grump what happiness feels like. Or maybe it's for fixing the blimp. It's not explicitly clear. A lot happens in that final scene, y'know?

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