Key & Compass presents:
Who Shot Gum E. Bear?
by Damon L. Wakes

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

Walkthrough

alley

> x me. i.

> x fedora. x trenchcoat. x trainers. x watch.

> x Bear. x crater. x liquid. taste it.

> x nose. x powder. taste it. (It's sherbet.)

> x cut. x chunks.

> x dumpsters. open dumpsters.

> x trash. x gun. take gun.

> x Donut. x Rolex. x shades. x pen. x clipboard.

> ask Donut about Bear. ask him about gun.

> ask him about sherbet. ask him about taffy plant.

> s.

street

> x club. x bookstore.

> x bookstore front. x bookstore door.

> x patrons. x Hunk. x earpiece. x box. x factory.

> ask Hunk about Bear. ask Hunk about Donut.

> ask Hunk about Candy Kane.

> ask Hunk about sherbet. ask Hunk about gun.

> ask patrons about Bear.

> nw.

Candy Kane's Club

> x Kane. x dress. x drinks.

> x babes. x customers. x dancers.

> ask Kane about Bear. ask her about bathroom.

> ask her about Donut. ask her about Hunk.

> ask her about gun. ask her about sherbet.

> ask her about factory.

> n.

washroom

> x sink. x red liquid. taste it. (strawberry)

> x stalls. x dryers. open stalls.

> s. se. ne.

adult bookstore

> x shelves. x books. read books. g. g.

> x Jawbreaker. x suit.

> ask him about ANYTHING. ("No comment.")

> n. (no: say the password first)

> password. (nice try)

> w.

alley

> ask Donut about Jawbreaker.

> ask him about Don. ask him about Sourballz.

> ask him about Hunk. ask him about Kane.

> ask him about password.

> s.

street

> ask Hunk about password. ("password1")

> ne.

adult bookstore

> password1. (Jawbreaker lets you into the...)

back room

> x Don. x desk. x cigarette. x pack.

> ask Don about Bear. ask Don about gun.

> ask Don about sherbet. ask Don about Sourballz.

> ask Don about Jawbreaker. ask Don about Kane.

> ask Don about Hunk. ask Don about Donut.

> ask Don about factory.

> s. w.

alley

No one has told you anything useful, but that's okay. Donut is the only character with the manual dexterity to be able to use a gun, so he did it.

> accuse Donut. yes

You've solved the case.

*** The End ***

Extras

Characters

Main characters:

• Bubble Gumshoe is the player character. She's a detective with a hard sugar shell and a soft centre.
• Gum E. Bear is the victim, a gummi bear that was shot in an alley. His liquid centre is strawberry-flavored.
• Officer Donut is the police officer on the scene, and the type of donut with a hole in the middle. There are frequent mentions of him using his fingers and thumbs to fiddle with his pen and clipboard.
• Big Hunk is the bouncer for the club. He's a large nougat bar studded with peanuts. His appendages are fingerless.
• Candy Kane is the owner and bartender of the club. She's a literal candy cane with sugar-stick arms.
• Jawbreaker is the near-spherical hard candy who mans the front part of the adult bookstore. He's untalkative and has no arms whatsoever.
• Don Toblerone, while clearly a mob boss in the back room of the adult bookstore, is also just a long stick of chocolate wedges.

Background groups:

• Some patrons are queueing up on the street to get into the club.
• Jelly babes jiggle on a stage in the club.
• Some customers and dancers populate the club.

Cameos and mentions:

• A red liquorice woman is doing sherbet in a washroom stall.
• A seagull snatches Donut up when he tries to roll away at the end.
• The Sourballz is a mob distributing sherbet in Sugar City. Everyone knows that Don Toblerone is the head of the Sourballz, but the authorities can never prove it.

Endings

All endings conclude with The End but the only winning ending occurs when you ACCUSE DONUT which you can do on turn 1.

The losing endings happen when you accuse the wrong character:

• Big Hunk points out that several club patrons saw him outside the club at the time.
• Candy Kane points out that she was behind the bar at the time and she has no motive.
• Jawbreaker isn't very bright, and his baffled response to your accusation makes it clear he didn't do it.
• Don Toblerone points out that if he was the mob boss you think he is, he'd have someone else do his dirty work for him.
• If you accuse yourself, the game is incredulous, then tells you that's not the solution.

Also, if you accuse groups (jelly babes, patrons, dancers, customers), the game all but laughs at you, but the game doesn't end. If you accuse an inanimate object, the game patiently informs you that that object is not capable of committing murder.

Inventory

• a fedora, a trenchcoat, hi top trainers, and a watch. You're wearing all four of these.
• Leave them on and ignore them.
• a Saturday night special. This gun is in the dumpsters in the alley.
• Ask everyone about this murder weapon. But more importantly, notice how everyone but Officer Donut is incapable of using a gun. Everyone else has either no arms or no hands or very poor versions that would make using a gun impossible.

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