Brain of the Night Guest is a Z-machine work of interactive fiction written with Inform 7 and is © 2011 by Caelyn Sandel and Carolyn VanEseltine. It was an entry in the PAX East 2011 Speed-IF event. (At the time, Caelyn Sandel was writing as Colin Sandel.)
You play as Alex, a student into pharmaceuticals. You passed out during a tour of the Plutonian Commonwealth museum, and now a maintenance bot is telling you the museum's closed and it'll take you to the police in the morning. The bot shuts itself off and you decide you need to find a way out of here.
This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on Release 1 of the work.
Maintenance Room
> x me. i. (Carrying nothing.)
> take note. read it. ("DO NOT GIVE JUNK FOOD to the braintree")
> x bags. search bags. x brain. ("Kevin")
> x bot. turn on bot. (It turns itself off again.)
> w.
Break Room
> x fridge. open it.
> x jim's brain. x chicken fingers.
> take all from fridge. close fridge.
> e. e.
Service Corridor
> x door. open door. (It won't open!)
> x panel. (You don't understand it.)
> w. n.
Plutonian Commonwealth Museum, Grand Hall
> x braintree. x planter. x brain tank.
> x transfer chair. x transfer pedestal.
> read display note. (re Kevin)
> x warning sign. x staircase.
> x door. x placard. ("Tomb of the Unknown Tool")
> x padlock. (scratches?)
> u.
Balcony
> x Marlene's brain. take it.
> x typewriter. d.
Plutonian Commonwealth Museum, Grand Hall
> put marlene's on pedestal. sit on chair. (The tree just sighs.)
> put chicken in planter. (The tree's now active.)
> sit on chair.
You now have Marlene's brain in your head. (Alex's brain is now in the brain tank.) You learn the typewriter has a loose key and how to take it.
> look. x alex's brain. u.
Balcony
> x typewriter. thump it. x key. d.
Plutonian Commonwealth Museum, Grand Hall
> unlock padlock with key. e.
Tomb of the Unknown Tool
> x hammer. take it. w.
Plutonian Commonwealth Museum, Grand Hall
> put jim's brain on pedestal. sit on chair.
With Jim's brain implanted, you learn how to unlock to fire door's control panel.
> s. e.
Service Corridor
> hit panel. (using the hammer; the door's unlocked now.)
If you go east now, you'll win, but as Jim's brain in Alex's body.
> w. n.
Plutonian Commonwealth Museum, Grand Hall
> put kevin's on pedestal. sit on chair.
With Kevin's brain implanted, you're prompted to examine things for clues! But since you've already solved everything, Kevin's not too useful now.
> x padlock. u.
Balcony
> x antique typewriter. d.
Plutonian Commonwealth Museum, Grand Hall
> take alex's. put it on pedestal. sit on chair.
You're fully Alex again.
> s. e. e.
*** You have won ***
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