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Text Adventure Tango #1: Plundered Hearts
> x Jamison
> free Jamison
The truth can’t hurt you, it’s just like the dark: it scares you witless but in time you see things clear and stark. - Elvis Costello
Maybe this time I can be strong, but since I know who I am, I’m probably wrong. Maybe this time I can go far, but thinking about where I’ve been ain’t helping me start. - Michael Kiwanuka
>X JAMISON
Eyes closed, his skin with the pallor of death, Nick looks entirely spent.
Sounds of scraping hook against stone and curses echo out of the well.
>FREE JAMISON
He doesn’t respond.
Sounds of scraping hook against stone and curses echo out of the well.
> x shackles
> open shackles
> kick Crulley in the face if he reaches the top
The truth can’t hurt you, it’s just like the dark: it scares you witless but in time you see things clear and stark. - Elvis Costello
Maybe this time I can be strong, but since I know who I am, I’m probably wrong. Maybe this time I can go far, but thinking about where I’ve been ain’t helping me start. - Michael Kiwanuka
>X MANACLES
Nicholas is spread-eagled against the wall, shackled in the pair of manacles.
Sounds of scraping hook against stone and curses echo out of the well, muffled by the trapdoor.
>OPEN MANACLES
It isn’t that easy.
Sounds of scraping hook against stone and curses echo out of the well.
You know, the game is almost edutainment. I must admit I had to look up a few words like bowsprit, folly, flagon, missive, doxy and a few others. And now I learn that jasmine flowers are white! (yes, poor Oscar isn’t too sharp, to put it bluntly!) But he makes up for it with smashing good looks…
Dashingly smashing.
edit: Is this the reticule (in blue)? Mine didn’t have it either (I didn’t buy it new).
I have no memory of the color blue and the velvet, I thought it was brown or black, but I’m sure my memory is wrong if that’s the pic on the box.
Butter my buns and call me a biscuit! - Agent A
Can you take the hook from Crulley?
Can you take the hook from Crulley?
LOL, genius!
And then use that to open the manacles.
The truth can’t hurt you, it’s just like the dark: it scares you witless but in time you see things clear and stark. - Elvis Costello
Maybe this time I can be strong, but since I know who I am, I’m probably wrong. Maybe this time I can go far, but thinking about where I’ve been ain’t helping me start. - Michael Kiwanuka
Can you take the hook from Crulley?
LOL, genius!
And then use that to open the manacles.
That what I was thinking, pointy object in adventure games usually open locks
Nope.
> get hook
> What an odd thing to attempt.
Butter my buns and call me a biscuit! - Agent A
The brooch?
Unlock manacles with brooch?
>UNLOCK MANACLES WITH BROOCH
You twist the pin of the jewelled brooch in the locks, quickly freeing Nicholas. He falls in a faint at your feet.
Sounds of scraping hook against stone and curses echo out of the well.
I think many of those words are no longer in use. Apparently the creator, Amy Briggs, did a lot of research into 17th century piracy history. So don’t feel bad!
Indeed. According to the text on the back of the box, “To create this exotic adventure, author Amy Briggs read hundreds of romance novels, researched 17th century costumes and ships, and was wooed by a dashing pirate.”
I can’t help feeling that the last bit might be a slight exaggeration, though.
EDIT: I tried to Google the reticule, didn’t find anything except at ebay. I could have sworn my reticule didn’t look like that at all…
Mine looks like this.
Mine looks like this.
Yours looks like the one in Oscar’s pic and the one I found on ebay. Must be correct.
Indeed. According to the text on the back of the box, “To create this exotic adventure, author Amy Briggs read hundreds of romance novels, researched 17th century costumes and ships, and was wooed by a dashing pirate.”
I can’t help feeling that the last bit might be a slight exaggeration, though.
I’d say the rest was more than a bit exaggerated as well. She may have read a few romance novels for her own enjoyment, but costumes? Frock, breeches, shirt, chamise, gown, wig. Pffff. She had to research ships to come up with fore, aft, quarterdeck, and crow’s nest?
Butter my buns and call me a biscuit! - Agent A
I must admit I had to look up a few words like bowsprit, folly, flagon, missive, doxy and a few others.
I can always tell when someone has never read an Agatha Christie novel.
Butter my buns and call me a biscuit! - Agent A
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