Key & Compass presents:
Who Whacked Jimmy Piñata?
by Damon L. Wakes

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Map

Walkthrough

Garage

Look at everything.

> x me. i. x watch.

> x fedora. x coat. x key. x trainers.

> x Bagel. x raisins.

> x Jimmy. x candies.

> x crystal. (under the car lift)

> x lift. (lowered) x button.

> x beam. x rope. (generic examples)

> x shutters.

> x iron. x scraps.

> x toolbench. x tools.

Chat with Bagel.

> ask Bagel about Jimmy.

> ask him about tipoff.

> ask him about phone booth. (west of Candy Kane's)

> ask him about Kane.

> ask him about city.

> ask him about factory. (west from here)

> ask him about murder.

> ask him about crystal.

> ask him about new drug lord.

> ask him about Sourballz. (ask Don Toblerone)

> ask him about sherbet.

> ask him about drugs.

> ask him about Don.

> ask him about iron.

> ask him about cause of death.

> ask him about himself.

> ask him about SCPD.

> ask him about Sugar City.

> ask him about McFreeze.

> ask him about mayor.

> ask him about retiring.

Get evidence and go.

> push button. take crystal. take iron.

> w.

The Docks

> x businesses. x river.

> x car. x shotgun. x radio.

> x piers. x boat. x factory.

> s.

The Piers

> x pier. x river. x boat.

> x gear. x window. (see keys inside)

> x boat keys. x table. x crack.

You'll return here much later.

> n. w.

Factory Entrance

> x bins. x door. x keyhole. x tape.

> x mud. x worms. eat worms. x footprints.

> x gate. x chain. x padlock. x chimneys.

> n.

Factory Outskirts

> x wino. x bottle. x gunk.

> ask wino about ANYTHING. (He's alive, but he's too drunk to understand your questions.)

> x can. x skewer. take it.

> x crumpled hat. x quarter. take it.

>> yes

I didn't like stealing the wino's quarter, but you need it more than he does.

> x challenger. (your car)

> x door. (The cylinder's been removed from the lock.)

> enter door.

Abandoned Store

> listen. x window. x stairs.

> n.

Demerara Street

> x Hunk. ask him about himself.

> ask him about Kane.

> ask him about slammer.

> ask him about Jimmy.

> ask him about borrowed money.

> ask him about Father Wafer.

> ask him about Jawbreaker.

> ask him about poker.

> ask him about Don.

> ask him about Sourballz.

> ask him about sherbet.

> ask him about crystal.

> ask him about city.

> ask him about Bagel.

> ask him aobut SCPD.

> ask him about Kit.

You'll have more questions for Hunk later.

> x patrons. x box. x tabloid.

> put coin in box.

> x tabloid. g. g.

Remember the name "Battenberg".

> ne.

Alley

> x dumpsters. open dumpsters. x bags.

> x rucksack. take it. open it.

> x pipe. x lighter. ("Fuego Fácil")

> close dumpster. x stain.

> sw. w.

Demerara and Maple

> x booth. x payphone. x handset.

> x keypad. (Note the nougat.)

> x church. x apartment.

> s.

Church of the Immaculate Confection

Look around.

> x pews. x faithful. x halva. x Father.

> x altar. x pope. x staircase.

> x confessional. x handles.

Talk to Father Wafer.

> ask Father about himself.

> ask him about church. ask him about city.

> ask him about halva. ask him about confessional.

> ask him about loan shark. (touchy topic)

> ask him about Jimmy.

> ask him about Big Hunk. ask him about Kane.

> ask him about staircase.

> ask him about Don.

> ask him about factory.

> ask him about mayor.

> ask him about money. (touchy topic)

> u. (Father Wafer stops you.)

> enter confessional.

The confessional

> z. (Father Wafer enters the other side.)

> confess.

> out.

Church of the Immaculate Confection

There's a turn when Wafer is still inside the confessional and you have a chance to trap him inside.

> put iron in handles.

> u.

Church Tower

> x bell. x box. x window.

> e. (one-way drop to...)

Demerara Street Rooftops

> d.

Abandoned Store Upstairs

> x desk. open drawer.

> x jiffy bag. take it. open it.

> x balloons. (blue crystal candy in condoms)

> smell balloons. (strawberry)

> x mushrooms.

You automatically unlock the door at the bottom of the stairs from this side.

> d. n. w. s.

Church of the Immaculate Confection

> take iron.

> n. e. n.

Candy Kane's Club

Look around.

> x Kane. x bar. x Kit.

> x Horehound. x powder. x pillar. x jacket.

> x babes. x dancers. x customers.

Chat up Kane.

> ask Kane about herself. ask Kane about city.

> ask Kane about factory. ask Kane about church.

> ask Kane about Angue. (in the VIP lounge)

> ask Kane about Don. (He doesn't ask for protection money and she lets him in the VIP lounge.)

> ask Kane about protection money.

> ask Kane about Jimmy. (Big Hunk knows more.)

> ask Kane about Hunk. ask Kane about Kit.

> ask Kane about murder. ask Kane about police.

> ask Kane about Wafer. (only in here once)

> ask Kane about Horehound. (if he's a bother, talk to Kit)

> ask Kane about drugs.

> ask Kane about sherbet. ask Kane about crystal.

> ask Kane about VIP lounge. (She can't let you in there.)

Try talking to Kit and Horehound. Kit needs a cigarette to loosen her tongue, and Horehound doesn't want to talk to you at all.

> ask Kit about herself. (Wants a cigarette.)

> ask her about cigarette.

> ask her about Horehound.

> ask Horehound about ANYTHING.

> n.

washroom

> x sinks. x sink. x stalls. x dryers.

> s. s. e.

Demerara and Caster

> x freeway. x storefronts. x bookstore.

> n.

Adult Bookstore

> x shelves. x books. x Jawbreaker.

> ask him about books.

> ask him about Jelle. (He's to the north; just tell him the password first.)

> ask him about password.

> ask him about Don. (at Kane's)

> ask him about money. (Jelle's job)

> ask him about Hunk. ask him about cards.

> ask him about Jimmy. ask him about Bagel.

> ask him about crystal. ask him about sherbet.

> ask him about Wafer.

> ask him about Horehound. (likes NUGGS)

> ask him about NUGGS.

> ask him about McFreeze.

> ask him about Angue.

> ask him about Battenberg.

It doesn't hurt to try guessing the password.

> say password (nope)

> say nuggs (nope)

> say sherbet (nope)

> s. w.

Demerara Street

Hunk is nougat. And you saw nougat on the phone keypad. He made the 911 call.

> ask Hunk about tipoff. (He doesn't deny it. Jimmy said to call the cops if he wasn't back in 20 minutes.)

> ask Hunk about Battenberg.

> ask Hunk about Horehound.

> ask Hunk about Jawbreaker.

> ask Hunk about password. (was password, then password1, guess what it is now)

> e. n.

Adult Bookstore

> say password2

Jawbreaker lets you into...

Back Room

> x desk. x ashtray. x tumbler. x bands.

> x pack. x chair. x magazines.

> x Bean. x machine.

Talk to Bean and get some cigarettes:

> ask him about himself. ask him about money.

> ask him about NUGGS. (has all-gay staff)

> ask him about bands. (feel free)

> ask him about cigarettes. take pack.

> ask him about Don. (in VIP lounge)

> ask him about Jimmy. (doesn't know him)

> ask him about crystal.

> ask him about new drug lord.

> ask him about erotic literature.

> ask him about sherbet.

> ask him about Horehound. (no comment)

> ask him about Jawbreaker. (in next room)

> ask him about city. ask him about factory.

> s. s. w. n.

Candy Kane's Club

> ask Kane about porn. ask Kane about NUGGS.

> ask Kane about Jelle. ask Kane about money.

> give pack to Kit. (She runs off to smoke. Hunk arrives and drags Horehound away. You duck inside the VIP room.)

VIP Room

> x Don. x mayor. x table. x bowl. x taffy.

> take taffy. put taffy on skewer.

Don Toblerone is cordial as always.

> ask Don about himself. ask Don about taffy.

> ask Don about NUGGS. ask Don about Bean.

> ask Don about money. ask Don about Jimmy.

> ask Don about Horehound. ask Don about drugs.

> ask Don about sherbet. ask Don about crystal.

> ask Don about city. ask Don about new drug lord.

> ask Don about Angue. ask Don about police.

> ask Don about slammer. ask Don about lounge.

> ask Don about church. ask Don about Wafer.

> ask Don about Kit Kat. ask Don about Kane.

> ask Don about Hunk.

> ask mayor about ANYTHING. (He waves you off.)

You automatically get a hand stamp when you leave the lounge so you can return if you must. Big Hunk and Kit Kat have swapped locations.

> e. s.

Demerara Street

Kit is more willing to chat when she's smoking.

> ask Kit about herself. ask her about Hunk.

> ask her about lounge. ask her about Kane.

> ask her about Jimmy. ask her about drugs.

> ask her about Don. ask her about church.

> s. s.

Factory Outskirts

Big Red, your mentor, is here and wants a chat about the case. He suggests talking in your car, so you both get in.

> x Red. ask Red about retiring.

> ask him about holiday home. ask him about city.

> ask him about mountains.

You hear an engine approaching at speed.

> ask him about Jimmy.

Gunfire breaks the tempered glass. Red has a hole in his throat, and tells you to get after the hitman. You're now chasing a motorbike through the...

City Streets

> x bike. (Yumaha, no license plate)

The hitman fires at you with a MAC-10.

> x hitman. (helmet and leather conceals him)

The hitman fires again, but he's out of ammo.

> z.

The hitman throws his gun and it lands inside the car. Red struggles to speak.

> take gun.

Red's hand slips.

> throw gun at hitman. (no: windscreen is in the way)

> x windscreen. (barely hanging in place)

> kick windscreen. (it's gone)

> x tyres. (rubber, they stick to the road)

The game is hinting to gum up the tyres with literal gum. Big Red is gum.

> x Red. take Red. (not with your hands)

> chew Red.

> throw gum at bike.

The bike flips. You stop and get out.

City Street

> x hitman. search hitman.

> x cash. (has a NUGGS band; you take it)

> x goo. x pocket. x bike.

A Sweetwood Bounder arrives, and a cake woman orders you in. You do so. She drives you to outside the church and orders you out. You smell something sweet in the back of the car that you smelled in the garage.

You ask her name. She steps out and tells you that you already know. "Say my name."

> say Battenberg. (correct)

> ask her about Jimmy. (Good, but not smart enough. That's why she wants you to solve the case.)

> ask her about crystal. (best anywhere)

> ask her about case. (Find suspects and motive.)

> ask her about suspects. (probably not Don or anyone she knows)

> ask her about motive. (probably meant to send a message)

> ask her about cough. (She has lung candy.)

> ask her about hitman. (He probably did the killing but on whose order? Who have you spooked?)

> ask her about Don. (unlikely)

> ask her about Sourballz. (maybe one of those)

> ask her about Jawbreaker. (no, too stupid)

Head to the piers:

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

The Piers

> put skewer in crack. (The taffy isn't sticky enough.)

> lick taffy.

> put skewer in crack. (The boat keys are yours.)

> unlock door with keys. in.

The Piers (in cabin)

Wax Lips was in the bed and hurredly puts clothes on. She's a hooker who knew Jimmy.

> x Lips.

> x notebook. take it. open it. (Jimmy was racking up a debt; weights were coming up short.)

> ask her about Jimmy. (Good guy, loved travel, put patches on his backpack.)

> x patches. g. g. g.

> ask her about notebook. ask her about herself.

> ask her about Jelle. ask her about new drug lord.

> ask her about NUGGS.

> ask her about boat. (Jimmy said he used it for work, but he didn't sound entirely sincere.)

> ask her about church. ask her about mayor.

> ask her about crystal. (Jimmy shared his.)

> ask her about sherbet. (Not as good as crystal)

> ask her about taffy. ask her about Sourballz.

> ask her about Hunk. ask her about Kit.

> ask her about Horehound.

> n. e.

Garage

Might as well check in with Bagel on all the new topics.

> ask Bagel about Battenberg. (headache)

> ask Bagel about Big Red.

> ask Bagel about Hunk.

> ask Bagel about Kit Kat.

> ask Bagel about Wax Lips.

> ask Bagel about Father Wafer.

> ask Bagel about Jelle Bean.

> ask Bagel about Horehound.

Head back the bookstore's back room:

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

Back Room

> accuse Bean.

Show him all your evidence. The essential items are the notebook, the pipe, and the cash. Show the cash last.

> show crystal to Bean.

> show notebook to Bean.

> show balloons to Bean.

> show gun to Bean.

> show iron to Bean.

> show rucksack to Bean.

> show pipe to Bean.

> show lighter to Bean.

> show cash to Bean.

He asks if it's enough for an arrest. Yes or no?

>> yes

*** THE END - You made 0 false accusations. Fantastic work! ***

Extras

Characters

Main characters:

• Bubble Gumshoe is the protagonist, a police detective.
• Officer Bagel is a rotund, cinnamon-raisin officer of the law.
• Big Hunk is the nougat bouncer outside Candy Kane's club.
• Father Wafer is the church priest.
• Candy Kane is the owner/operator of the nightclub. She's working the bar.
• Kit Kat is the club's other bouncer. She's guarding the VIP lounge entrance. She's loves smoking and she's more tolerant of drugs than Big Hunk is.
• Jawbreaker is Don Toblerone's dim-witted muscle man. He's in the bookstore.
• Jelle Bean is an accountant and now handles the bookstore's money. He's in the bookstore's back room.
• Don Toblerone is the owner/operator of the adult bookstore. Unofficially, he's the crime lord supplying sherbet. You find him in the VIP Lounge.
• Big Red, your old mentor, stops by to talk about your case and to tell you he's retiring to a holiday home in the Big Rock Candy Mountains.
• A hitman on a motorbike shoots at you and Big Red. His helmet and leathers obscure any identifying features.
• Battenberg, a sponge and marzipan cake woman, is the new crime lord supplying the blue crystal candy. And she wants to help you solve Jimmy's murder.
• Wax Lips is a hooker living in the boat on the piers and a friend of Jimmy's.

Minor characters:

• A Wine Gum Wino is sleeping in the factory outskirts. He was toasting marshmallows recently.
• Horehound is a chap in the club that likes women, porn, and sherbet. But he doesn't like you.
• Mayor Angue is the current mayor. He's in the VIP Lounge.

Background characters:

• A queue of patrons wait outside the club.
• A few faithful and a sleeping homeless halva sit in the church, mostly to be out of the rain, you suspect.
• Jelly babes, customers, and dancers populate the nightclub.

Found dead:

• Jimmy Piñata is hanging from a rope in the garage.

Mentioned:

• Mayor Rubus McFreeze left a stain in the factory.
• Gum E. Bear left a stain in the alley.
• George Noshington is featured on the quarter.
• Pope Pontefract's portrait is in the church.
• Jim Fizzpatrick was a Pop-Tart artist.
• Che Guava was a Chewban revolutionary.

Credits

This is the response to CREDITS:

Who Whacked Jimmy Piñata?
A Bubble Gumshoe Mystery

Writing
Damon L. Wakes

Code Review
Zed Lopez

Playtesting
Robert Eggleston
Gamefic
kirihearts
Tabitha
WindySilver

Endings

• THE END - You made N false accusations.
• if you made N false accusations before accusing Jelle Bean. N can be as high as 12.
• THE END - You made 1 false accusation.
• if you made 1 false accusation before accusing Jelle Bean.
• THE END - You made 0 false accusations. Fantastic work!
• if you make the correct accusation and arrest Jelle Bean on the first try.

By the way,...

• If you accuse Battenberg, she gets back into her car and leaves.
• If you accuse Don Toblerone, then show him the cash, you actually startle him.
• You cannot accuse yourself, Big Red, or any anonymous background groups of people. You also cannot effectively accuse the hitman. During the chase, he's out of reach, and after the chase, the question is who ordered the hits.

Inventory

Items are listed in the order they're acquired (or could be acquired if untaken) in this walkthrough.

• a fedora, a trench coat, hi top trainers, and a watch. You're wearing them.
• Ignore your clothes. You have no reason to remove any of them.
• a car key. You're carrying it.
• Your car, a Fudge Challenger, is parked at the factory outskirts.
• Don't worry about your car key. Keep it. You use it automatically when you need to use your car.
• a blue crystal. It's under the car lift in the garage. Push the button to raise the lift, then take the crystal.
• Ask everyone about crystal during your investigations.
• The crystal is evidence; show it to Jelle Bean after accusing him.
• a tyre iron. It's on the workbench in the garage.
• In the Church of the Immaculate Confection, enter the confessional, wait for Father Wafer to enter the other side, then get out and immediately put the tyre iron in the door handles to trap Wafer inside. Now he can't stop you from going up into the church tower.
• After acquiring the jiffy bag, take the tyre iron back, freeing Father Wafer. He's upset but he doesn't retaliate.
• The iron is evidence; show it to Jelle Bean after accusing him.
• a long skewer. It's in the can at the factory outskirts.
• See boat keys.
• a quarter. It's in the crumpled hat in the factory outskirts.
• On Demerara Street, put the coin into the newspaper vending box to acquire the tabloid.
• a crumpled hat. It's at the factory outskirts.
• You have no need for the Wine Gum Wino's hat. And you're already wearing a fedora, remember?
• a tabloid. It's in the newspaper box outside the club. Put the quarter into the box to acquire the tabloid.
• Read it to learn that the new crime lord supplying the blue crystal candy is Battenberg.
• a rucksack. It's in the dumpsters in the alley.
• Open the rucksack. It contains a glass pipe and a butane lighter.
• The rucksack is evidence; show it to Jelle Bean after accusing him.
• a glass pipe. It's in the rucksack.
• The pipe is evidence; show it to Jelle Bean after accusing him.
• a butane lighter. It's in the rucksack.
• You don't need to light or burn or melt anything with the lighter.
• The lighter is evidence; show it to Jelle Bean after accusing him.
• a jiffy bag containing some drug balloons. It's in the drawer of the rotten desk in the abandoned store upstairs.
• The bag is evidence; show it to Jelle Bean after accusing him.
• a pack of candy cigarettes. It's on the deck in the bookstore's back room.
• Ask Jelle about the cigarettes; he says you can take them. Take them.
• In Candy Kane's Club, give the pack to Kit Kat. She runs off to smoke, Hunk arrives to replace her and ousts Horehound, and you duck inside the VIP room.
• a piece of taffy. There's a bowl of taffy in the VIP room.
• See boat keys.
• a MAC 10. During the chase scene, the hitman throws his gun at you and it lands in your car. Take it.
• The gun is evidence; show it to Jelle Bean after accusing him.
• a gum wad. During the chase scene on the city streets, after Big Red dies, chew him to get the gum wad.
• Kick the windscreen to get it out of the way, then throw the gum wad at the motorbike to end the chase.
• a roll of cash. On the city street, acquire it by searching the hitman after the chase is over.
• Examine it. It has a NUGGS band.
• The cash is evidence; show it to Jelle Bean after accusing him.
• some fishing boat keys. At the piers, you see them in the boat's window.
• Put the taffy on the skewer. Lick the taffy to make it sticky, then put the skewer into the crack of the boat's window to obtain the boat keys.
• Still at the piers, unlock the cabin door with the boat keys.
• a notebook. It's in the cabin in the boat at the piers; unlock the door with the boat keys.
• The notebook is evidence; show it to Jelle Bean after accusing him.

Score

This is the response to SCORE:

Drugs are behind half the crime in Sugar City - you aren't looking to score.

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