Key & Compass presents:
Escape from the SS Borgarís
by Kevan Davis

• Bottoms: a pair of jeans (you're wearing them); a pair of beige trousers, a black miniskirt, and a green skirt (from random suitcases).
• Wear the beige trousers to protect you legs from the cold. They fit over your jeans. Skirts won't do at all.
• Footwear: a pair of brown shoes (you're wearing them); a pair of wellington boots, a pair of big black boots, and a pair of open-toed sandals (from random suitcases).
• Wear either the wellington boots or the big black boots for full foot-protection against the cold. The shoes and sandals aren't good enough.
• You cannot layer footwear and wear more than one pair.
• Gloves: some black padded gloves, a pair of mittens, some driving gloves and some white gloves (all from random suitcases).
• Wear either the mittens or the black padded gloves for full hand-protection against the cold. The driving gloves and the white gloves aren't good enough.
• Note: Nothing prevents you from wearing multiple gloves at the same time. While both the driving gloves and the white gloves are inadequate hand-protection separately, if worn together, your hands are protected.
• Headwear: a fright wig (from the theatrical suitcase); a thick balaclava and a baseball cap (from random suitcases).
• Wear the balaclava. It's your only option to protect your face from the cold.
• Put either the fright wig or the baseball cap into the cot to protect the baby's head.
• Neckware: a stripey scarf, a pink feather boa, and a bow tie (from random suitcases).
• Neckware doesn't matter. Ignore or wear neckwear as you please.
• Tops: a dark green shirt and a grey jumper (you're wearing them); a white shirt, a hawaiian shirt, a purple T-shirt, a fishnet cardigan, a string vest, and a dinner jacket (all from random suitcases).
• Leave your shirt and jumper on. Together, they'll protect your arms well enough. Don't expect help from a t-shirt, vest, or fishnet, theough.
• Other: a crimson ballgown, a dressing gown, and a cummerbund (all from random suitcases).
• I ignored these, but perhaps the gowns help protect your arms? I couldn't be bothered to check.

First, in the kitchen, push the button to lower the dumbwaiter shelf.

Second, in the carpeted room, show either piece of fish to the cat. It's now following you.

Third, return to the kitchen, and put the fish into the dumbwaiter. The cat jumps in after it. Quickly, push the button. The dumbwaiter lifts the cat up into the restaurant. The cat makes quick work of the seagull there before sauntering down back to the carpeted room.

• a smoked herring. It's in the plastic box left in your cubbyhole.
• a piece of haddock. Acquire it by trying to take the food in the restaurant.

Examine a cylinder's dial to see how full of game the cylinder is; for example, X RED DIAL.

• a blue gas cylinder. It's in the theatrical suitcase.
• The blue cylinder is empty. Ignore it.
• a green gas cylinder. It's in the laboratory.
• The green cylinder is empty. Ignore it.
• a red gas cylinder. It's in the suitcase found in the clown's cabin; see roster.
• The red cylinder is full. When you you're at "Out on the Upper Deck", re-fill the balloon by putting the red cylinder on the balloon's vent.

• a passport. It's in the theatrical suitcase.
• Examine it; it tells you that the clown's name is Mr Pétur Hálfdanarson.
• a passenger roster. It's the printout in the carpeted room.
• Examine it and look for the name you read on the passport to learn which cabin is the clown's. The clown's name isn't randomized, but his cabin number is randomized.
• scrawled papers. It's in the metal toolbox that's out on the upper deck.
• Read them. They're mostly calculations and graphs you don't understand.

You may only take one suitcase at a time. Many of the cabins have a suitcase, but not all. The suitcases are quite randomized except for the clown's.

You don't need to pick up any of the suitcases you find, but do open them. None of the suitcases are locked. The two suitcases belonging to the clown are unrandomized, although which cabin is the clown's cabin is randomized; see roster. In other cabins, there's a random chance you'll find a suitcase. The first six or so suitcases you find (whether you open them or not, and other than the clowns') will contain items. All other suitcases you open will be empty or just have a single item.

CAUTION: Don't bring suitcases into the same room. While the suitcases have distinctive names, you can really only refer to each of them as "suitcase". The suitcase you're currently holding is "my suitcase".

• a small theatrical suitcase. Find it by examining the debris in the ballroom.
• Inside this suitcase is a blue gas cylinder, a passport, some ballooning paraphernalia, and a fright wig.
• several RANDOMLY-NAMED suitcases. Probably a third of the cabins have a randomized suitcase. The names can repeat.
• The known first halves of the randomized names are: battered, boxy, curvy, dull, glossy, label-covered, large, old, scuffed, shiny, small, stripey, and tattered.
• The known second halves of the randomized names are: black, black and blue, black and green, black and red, blue, brown, green, grey, leather, mauve, ochre, olive, purple, silver, tartan, and yellow.
• Open the suitcases to find most of the clothing in the game, except for what you're already wearing and the wig.
• The red gas cylinder will be in the randomly-named suitcase in the clown's room; see passport to learn the clown's name and see roster to find which room he's in.

• a pocket torch. You're carrying it.
• Turn it on to see in dark places: the cubbyhole, the kitchen, and between the engines.
• a plastic box. It's in the cubbyhole.
• Open it; it contains a smoked herring.
• While the plastic box can be used as a general container, its capacity isn't that great. Use a suitcase instead, if you must.
• a flare gun containing a flare charge. It's at "Between the Engines".
• Don't use the gun; the charge won't fly up high enough that way.
• Light the charge with the lighter; see balloon for where and when.
• a carry cot containing a baby. It's in a randomized cabin, but you can locate it by listening to the baby's crying and narrowing in on it.
• Put the blanket into the cot to protect the baby's body from the cold.
• Put either the wig or cap into the cot to protect the baby's head from the cold.
• Bring the cot with you when you use the balloon so the baby is rescued as well.
• a small key. It's in the metal toolbox that's out on the upper deck.
• The key unlocks the white door in the lower corridor. The door leads into the laboratory.
• a fully inflated weather balloon. It's in the laboratory.
• The inflated balloon is too big to fit through the white door. Open the balloon's vent; it is now a deflated weather balloon.
• When you're at "Out on the Upper Deck", re-inflate the balloon by putting the red gas canister on the balloon's vent. Put the flare charge into the balloon's basket. Light the flare with the lighter. Now drop the balloon. If flies up high, and a few turns later, the charge goes off, summoning the fishing trawlers to rescue you.
• a blanket. It's in the cubbyhole.
• Put the blanket into the cot to keep the baby's body warm.
• a cigarette lighter. It's at the bar, north of the restaurant.
• Use it to light the flare charge; see balloon for where and when.