Key & Compass presents:
The Electric Puppet
by Christophe Géradon

• Map
• Walkthrough
• Extras
  • Characters, Inventory
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Map

Walkthrough

At the outset, I should say that I have no idea why both ifwizz and IFDB describe this game as humourous. I saw nothing comedic about this game.

Inside your head

The "spheres" are your eyes.

> x me. x eyes. listen. x voice.

> i. x bag. open bag.

> x box. x voucher. x paper.

> open box. x pill. eat pill.

A cab

The driver wants to know where to drive to.

> say Mortadelle Street.

The cab stops. The driver wants 15 Euros in advance.

> x driver. give voucher to her.

At the south end of Mortadelle Street

> n.

In the middle of Mortadelle Street

> x door. open door. (locked)

> e.

The Tatoo & Piecing Shop

> x man. (Steve needs inspiration.)

> ask man about Darcie. (She wants a tough guy who uses force.)

> ask man about hanged man. (In the house with the brown door.)

> x unsold goods box. open it.

> take all from unsold goods box. (Steve says each is not for sale.)

> w. n. w.

The Rhum Pub

> x barman. x pints. x men.

> ask barman for beverage.

> n.

Men's toilets

> x bowls. x wall.

> read graffiti. ("iron this shirt bitch")

> w. (forbidden for men who don't own the key)

> s. e. e.

The home of Feminist Fight

> x Darcie. x iPod.

> ask Darcie about key. (She doesn't hear you because of the iPod.)

> x waffles. x cups. x towels.

> e.

The small room

> x broom. take it.

> x tape. take it.

> w. w. s. e.

The Tatoo & Piecing Shop

> ask Steve about key. (fuck Darcie; she likes Tupperware)

> ask Steve about shirt. (He needs a new catchphrase.)

> say iron this shirt bitch. (He prints a night-colored shirt with that phrase.)

> take night shirt. x it. wear it.

> w. n. e.

The home of Feminist Fight

You may find this sequence unpleasant, but note that this is consensual and between adults.

> ask Darcie about key. (Your shirt has all but hypnotized her.)

> fuck Darcie with broom. (She drops a key, you discard the broom, and she crawls away.)

> take key.

> w. s.

In the middle of Mortadelle Street

> unlock door with key. open door. w.

11, Mortadelle Street

> x hanged. (It's your mother.)

> d.

The basement

> x TV. u.

11, Mortadelle Street

> unhang mother.

There's an odd inversion. Now you're your mother, and your son Bernard is hanging.

> x me. (She died in Australia in 1974.)

> i. x sheet. ("Togheter is Psycho", from Bernard)

> x son.

> e. n. w. n. w.

Ladies' room

> x VCR. take it.

> e. s. e. s. w.

11, Mortadelle Street

> drop VCR.

> take son. (You're now Bernard.)

> take VCR.

> d.

The basement

Some guess-the-verb here. You can't connect, attach, or join the VCR to the TV.

> drop VCR.

> plug VCR to TV.

> put tape in VCR.

> turn on TV.

> turn on VCR. (You're now...)

Inside the TV set

> x card.

*** You have won ***

So what happened, really? I'm inclined to believe that Bernard's mother died years ago, and unknowingly, he's developed a multiple-personality disorder where he sometimes thinks he's her. The hanged individual could just be a mannequin with a wig, and he's just taking the wig and wearing it when he becomes her.

And I don't think you really went into the TV either. You're just misinterpreting the images on the screen as your current reality. I think it's entirely mental illness, and no magic is involved.

Extras

Characters

• A driver is in the cab. She's fat, in her late forties, wants to know your destination, and wants payment in advance.
• Steve is the seller in the tattoo and piercing shop. He needs inspiration.
• Darcie is listening to her iPod in the home of Feminist Fight.
• A barman is cleaning empty pints.
• Men in the pub are drinking a purple beverage.
• Your mother wrote the note telling you to unhang the hanged individual, but she's also the hanged individual, and she died in Australia in 1974, and she's also with you inside the TV. No offense, but you may be a bit psycho.

Mentioned:

• Alfred Hitchcock directed the film Psycho.

Inventory

• your metrosexual bag. You're wearing it.
• Open it. It contains a box of Desaxioginon, a 20 Euros voucher, and a sheet of paper.
• a box of Desaxioginon. It's in your bag.
• Open it. It's contains a pill.
• the last pill of Desaxioginon. It's in the box of Desaxioginon.
• Eat the pill. You now see you're in a cab and can understand what the driver is asking.
• a 20 Euros voucher. It's in your bag.
• In the cab, after telling the driver "Mortadelle Street", give the voucher to the driver to get there.
• a sheet of paper. It's in your bag.
• Read it. You learn you need to get to Mortadelle Street, unhang the hanged individual, and get the key from Darcie.
• a night shirt. In the tattoo shop, say "iron that shirt bitch" to Steve; he makes this shirt with that phrase. You know about that phrase if you read the graffiti in the pub's men's room.
• Wear the shirt. Now in the home of the Feminist Fight, Darcie is all but hypnotized by the shirt.
• a Tupperware broom. It's in the small room.
• While you can try to sweep things with the broom, that's not what it's for.
• In the home of the Feminist Fight, while wearing the night shirt, fuck Darcie with the broom. She drops a key, and you toss away the broom.
• a video tape. it's in the small room.
• Examine the tape. It's a copy of Hitchcock's Psycho.
• In the basement, after plugging the VCR into the TV, put the tape in the VCR, turn the TV on, then turn the VCR on. You are transported into the TV.
• a key. In the home of the Feminist Fight, Darcie drops it when you successfully fuck her with the broom.
• The key unlocks the brown door in the middle of Mortadelle Street.
• a sheet of paper. You're carrying it when you become your own mother.
• Read it. It hints that you need to watch Psycho.
• an old VCR. It's in the pub's ladies' room. You can enter there if you're in your mother's body.
• In the basement, drop the VCR and plug the VCR into the TV. Then put the tape into the VCR and turn both the TV and VCR on. You are transported into the TV.
• Note that you can only turn the VCR on when you're Bernard.

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