Key & Compass presents:
Ze French countryside is full of fresh air
by Eric Forgeot

Ze French countryside is full of fresh air is a Z-machine interactive fiction game written with Inform 7 and is © 2007 by Eric Forgeot (writing as Otto Grimwald). It was a participant in the Speed-IF Introcomp event.

In this small game, you play as a civilized spy. Your mission was to retrieve the spirit of the SpeedIF, stolen by dastardly Francophones and hidden in the Kingdom of Carapagne. But you were betrayed and captured and may spend the rest of your life in the prison of Saint Margueleine unless you can escape.

This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on Release 3 (English version) of the game. There is a French version of the game, but I don't know enough French to play it.

Walkthrough
Extras
- Characters, Endings, Inventory
Thank You to my Patreon supporters
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Walkthrough

Caserne

You have two turns to do anything before you're taken to the cellar. You might "listen", for example.

> x Capitain. x Jerome.

Cellar

By the way, the description of paintings should be "Some ugly graffitis probably made by non-humans artists" but there was a typo in the source code.

> x paintings. x meal. x bars. x table.

> x ashtray. take ashtray.

> x bed. take straw.

The meal should be cold by now. That's useful:

> x meal. put meal on bars. break bars.

How anyone is supposed to guess to do that, I have no idea.

Fields

You have two ways of getting rid of the goat. You can't exit until it's gone.

> x goat.

> give straw to goat —or— hit goat (with ashtray).

> exit.

Your HeadQuarter, somewhere 20 feet under the sea.

*** You have won ***

Extras

Characters

Capitain is the fat man who captured you.
Jerome is the thin man who captured you.
A fearsome goat in the fields is preventing you from exiting.
In the epilogue, your boss seems indifferent to your adventures.

Endings

You have died

if you attack Capitain,
if you eat the meal when it's still hot, or
if you attack the goat without having the ashtray.

You have won when you successfully leave the fields.

Inventory

a meal. It's in the cellar and will get colder the longer you wait.

CAUTION: If you eat the meal, you'll have the taste of defeat (you've made the game unwinnable), so UNDO immediately afterwards.
Put the cold meal on the bars, the meal will disappear and the bars will now be fragile ice.

an ashtray. It's on the table in the cellar. You can hit the goat with it, killing the goat and breaking the ashtray in the process.
some straw. You can take straw from the bed in the cellar. You can give the straw to the goat, who eats some of it and leaves.

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