Key & Compass presents:
Zymurgy
by Roger Carbol

As a mortal representive of the Bavarian Purity Laws, it is your solemn and ecstatic duty to consume all forms of sugar and convert it to ethanol. This pleases the Brewer. Or so the holy scriptures say, and they are not to be doubted.

This solution is by David Welbourn.

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

The Middle of the Carboy

> x me. x sugar. eat sugar. (+1) u.

Near The Top of the Carboy

> x bacillus. eat sugar. (+2) u.

At The Top of the Carboy

> x contaminant. d. d. d.

Near The Bottom of the Carboy

> x bacillus. eat sugar. (+2) d.

At The Bottom of the Carboy

Note: It is important that you are at the bottom of the carboy when the flocculation of the wort forces you to the top.

> x bacillus. z.

At The Top of the Carboy

> z. z. z. (+5)

*** You have won ***

Extras

Characters

The player-character is a specimen of yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
A foreign bacillus, a Lactobacillus belbrueckii, is near the top of the carboy.
A strange contaminant, who calls itself Nanocron, smallest of the Decepticons, is at the top of the carboy.
A second foreign bacillus, a Pediococcus damnosus, is near the bottom of the carboy.
A third foreign bacillus, one you can't identify, is at the bottom of the carboy. Nanocron calls it Cosmic Rust when he tries to consume it.

Mentiohed:

The Brewer or Brewmeister is a god-like being, at least as far as the player-character is concerned.
Galvatron is mentioned by Nanocron.

Endings

You have died if Nanocron eats you.
You have won if Nanocron eats the bacillus from the bottom of the carboy.

Score

In a total of some turns, you have achieved a score of your-score points out of a possible 10.

1 point for eating the sugar at the middle of the carboy.
2 points for destroying the foreign bacillus near the top of the carboy.
2 points for destroying the foreign bacillus near the bottom of the carboy.
5 points for letting the strange contaminant and the unknown foreign bacillus destroy each other.

Thank You to my Patreon supporters

This walkthrough is provided free of charge since I wrote this walkthrough prior to January 2015 when I began my Patreon account, and also because the work it's based on has less than fifteen locations (so I wouldn't have charged for it anyway). I've since reformatted this walkthrough to use my currently preferred style. I hope you enjoy it!

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