They're After You! is a Z-machine interactive fiction game written with Inform 7 and is © 2011 by Bob Reeves. Also known as PLSG #3 (where PLSG means Painless Little Stupid Games), this game was originally written in ALAN 2 and published in 1999; it was later ported to Inform 7 and the Z-machine.
In this short escape game, you're running for your life. They're after you! If you can survive this, the narrator will do... will do... do what exactly?
This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on Release 1 of the game.
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Running
CAUTION: You cannot stop to examine anything, take inventory, hide, or do anything but run and take the hat when it's near.
> run. (now near ditch)
> run. (now near tree)
> run. (now near reliquary)
> run. (now near old hat)
> take hat. (+2. Now near stream)
> run. (now near boulders)
> run. (now near fortress gates)
> in.
Mighty Fortress
> close gate. bar gate.
> x hat.
Finish the narrator's sentence with:
> eat my hat. (+2)
*** You have won. ***
> amusing
After you win, type AMUSING to open the following menus:
- Did you ever try ...
... typing RUN FASTER? (This usually gives you an extra turn, not that an extra turn is very useful.)
... typing STOP, TURN AROUND, LOOK, WAIT or INVENTORY while running?
... to hide behind the boulders, in the sand, or in the shadow?
... typing HELP while running, then in the Fortress?
This is the response to SCORE:
You have so far scored X out of a possible 4, in Y turns.
Points are awarded as follows:
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