If you've never played lnfocom's TABLE OF CONTENTS SECTION I: ABOUT As a result of your heroics, yo~ ~ere before, you should Section I: About Station/all offered, and quickly accepted, a JUICY read this entire instruction manual. If promotion. Goodbye Ensign Seventh you're an experienced player, Preface to the Story Page 3 Preface to the Story Class - now you were a Lieutenant JUSt read Section I: About Stationfall. After the fall of the Second Galactic First Class! No more scrubwork! No Sample Transcript Union in 1716 GY, a ten-thousand­ and Map 4 more bathroom details! No more year dark age settled upon the galaxy. cleaning of the grotch cages! Finally, About the Author 7 Interstellar travel was non-existent, and your life in. the Stellar Patrol would be Section II: About Infocom's many star systems descended into a as excitinf as those brochures had Interactive Fiction near-barbanc state, burning fossil fuels promised. for energy and growing food directly Oh, how naive you'd been. Yo~r An Overview: What is from exposed topsoil. interactive fiction? 8 daily routine simply replaced tedious In 11,203 GY, a treaty b€:'.tween the scrubwork with tedious paperwork. Starting and Stopping 8 growing empires of Tr~mam and. Since your on Resid'!-, five •"Booting up" Gallium formed the Third Galactic long years have dragged by, without a •Saving and restoring Union. A pseudo-military br~nch of the Union government on Tremam was single solitary event w~rt~y ~f i:iot~. •Quitting and restartmg Why, just look at ~oday s thnllmg created. Called the Stellar Patrol, its Communicating with assignment: scootmg over to Space ships began exploring the g~l~xyi Stat10n Gamma Delta Gamma 777-G Infocom's interactive fiction 9 searching for the human c1v1hzat10ns •Basic sentences 59/59 Sector Alpha-Mu-79 to pick up a that are the remnants of the Second supply of Request for Stellar Pa.trol •Complex sentences Union. •Talkmg to characters Issue Regulat10n Black Form Bmders You are a native of Gallium, one of Request Form F01ms ... in the story the most politically powerful but . Special Commands 10 culturally barren worlds of the Umon. Tips for Novices 12 Your great-great-grandfather was a foundmg officer of ~e Stellar Patrol, Eleven useful pointers about and for five generat10ns, your interactive fiction family has served in the Patrol. It was Common Complaints 13 always taken for granted that you We're Never Satisfied 14 would sign up as soon as you came of age. If You Have Technical Once you joined the ~<;ttrol, you Problems 14 discovered that the exc1tmg career Copyright and Warranty promised in all the Patrol recruitment Information 14 brochures was nonsense. Your life was drudgery and demerits. The only time Quick Reference Guide 15 you got to see an exotic planet was This briefly describes the most right after a big parade, when they important things to know about needed a detail to sweep up all the interactive fict10n. confetti. Then came your big J'.lOment: shipwrecked on a seemmgly deser~ed world, you met an exuberant robotic companion named Floyd. Together, the two of ,YOU discovered the secret of th!'lt mystenous planet, Resida, and saved 1t from near destruction.The story of that heroic deed was told in Planetfall.

2 Instruction Manual Instruction Manual 3 Sa_mple ~ra!lscript and Map >LEAVE THE SCOOTER cages!" The Fussbudget begins sneezing >CUT THE BARS WITH THE HACKSAW This t~ans_cnpt 1s not from Stationfall, Docking Port wildly. You cut through one of the bars. The This is the huge docking port of the space but will give ~ou a good general idea of >AFT.PORT.UP.ENTER THE Fussbudget sticks its head through the gap. station. Only one ship is here at the moment, SCOOTER.UNLOCK THE TOOLBOX WITH "Come on , cut some more! I'm almost how Infocom s interactive fiction a one-man scooter, so the docking port out...do you think these edges where you works. It contains some simple puzzles THE KEY seems unusually empty. A tube leads down Main Hallway, Sector N cut the bars are sharp?" and their solutions. The player's toward the heart of the station. Main Hallway, Sector M >AGAIN commands appear in capital letters after >DOWN You cut a second bar. The Fussbudget each promJ?t (>). The map represents Main Hallway, Sector M Docking Port squeezes through and leaps to the floor. the terrain m the sample transcript as This is the station's main corridor, which You are beginning to get hungry. "Thanks, bud. By the way, I'm a Fussbudget." you might have drawn it. continues to port and starboard. A tube leads Scooter It hops across the room and pokes four or five up toward the docking port. You can see a toolbox here. eye stalks cautiously through the doorway. >STARBOARD The toolbox is now unlocked. "Where is everyone? Hey, that looks like a tube of nutrient paste you've got there." Main Hallway, Sector N >OPEN THE TOOLBOX This is the station's main corridor, which Opening the toolbox reveals an identity >GIVE THE TUBE TO THE FUSSBUDGET continues to port and starboard. A room lies bracelet, a hacksaw, and a tube of nutrient The FussbudQet grabs the tube, wildly to fore, and a tube leads down to the next paste. squeezes it with all six hands, and then level of the station. throws it to the deck. "Empty! If I don't eat Lying at the base of the wall isa key. >TAKE ALL FROM THE TOLBOX something soon I'll get sick." [I don't know the word "tolbox. "] >TAKE THE KEY >AFT Taken. >OOPS TOOLBOX Main Hallway, Sector N identity bracelet: Taken. >EXAMINE IT The Fussbudget gangles after you. hacksaw: Taken. The key looks like one of those new all­ tube of nutrient paste: You're carrying too >PORT D purpose keys that maids itself to any lock. A much weight already. Main Hallway, Sector M typical example of Garfoogian ingenuity. The Fussbudget gangles after you . >INVENTORY >FORE You are carrying a hacksaw, an identity >PORT Sick Bay bracelet, a key, and a box of radioactive Main Hallway, Sector L Like the rest of the station, the medical isotopes. You are wearing a Patrol uniform. This is the station's main corridor, which facility is deserted. This is odd, for regulations continues to port and starboard. Rooms lie require that the sick bay be staffed around >DROP ALL BUT THE HACKSAW AND THE fore and aft. )Fr the clock, ten chrons a day! The only exit is BRACELET THEN TAKE THE TUBE The Fussbudget gangles after you . It >WAIT -+- key: Dropped. aft. suddenly notices your identity bracelet. Time passes .. . At the far end of the room, inside a steel box of radioactive isotopes: Dropped. "Hey, a bracelet. If you gimme it, I can get us The scooter glides into the station's cage, is a Thoosian Fussbudget, apparently Patrol uniform: You'll have to remove it first. lotsa food, whaddya say, huh?" docking port. The retro-thrusters bring the asleep. Taken. >GIVE BRACELET TO FUSSBUDGET scooter to a halt. As the docking port fills with You are now quite hungry. air the scooter's hatch opens. >WAKE THE FUSSBUDGET The Fussbudget grabs the bracelet and It jumps to its feet, all twelve of them. "Hey, >EAT THE PASTE dashes forward. >LOOK what's going on? Who are you? Lemme outta Mmmm ... one of your favorites ... anchovies Scooter, in the pilot's couch >FORE here!" and peanut butter. You empty the entire You bounce off the invisible security barrier. You are in the cramped one-man space tube, and your hunger dissipates. scooter. Through the viewport, you see the >OPEN THE CAGE Within the room, you can see the docking port of Space Station BG-12. The The cage is locked. >OUT.DOWN.STARBOARD.FORE Fussbudget, wearing the bracelet, greedily scooter's hatch is open. "Open the cage!" begs the Fussbudget, Docking Port devouring a whole crate of Mondoweed fruits . You can see a toolbox here. clawing at the bars. "I'm claustrophobic! I'll Main Hallway, Sector M starve to death! I wanna go jogging!" >FUSSBUDGET, GIVE ME THE BRACELET >OPEN THE TOOLBOX Main Hallway, Sector N You can't reach it from the pilot's couch . >UNLOCK THE CAGE WITH THE KEY Without looking up or pausing for a second, This seems to be one of those new Sick Bay the Fussbudget tosses you the bracelet. >STAND UP sophisticated all-purpose-key-proof locks. "It's about time you got back. You think it's You are standing again. "Break the bars! Get an acetylene torch! fun being locked in a cage? What if there was >OPEN THE TOOLBOX Find a teleporter! I've got an afpointment a fire?" It's locked. with my lawyer in five minutes. I'm allergic to

4 Instruction Manual Instruction Manual 5 >PUT ON THE BRACELET >FORE.FORE >FORE About the Author You are now wearing the bracelet. Main Hallway, Sector L Main Hallway, Sector L ( 1957- ) was born >FORE Store Room Suddenly, a giant fireball engulfs the entire station. and raised in Yonkers, NY, where his Store Room The Fussbudget is snoring loudly in the early hobbies included rooting for the This is a small storage room of some sort. A corner. **** You have died ***** hallway lies aft. New York Mets and against Richard You can see an adapter plug here. Your score is 9 points out of a total of 80, in You can see an adapter plug here. Nixon. >TAKE 92 moves. This gives you the rank of pot Historians of interactive fiction point The Fussbudget is just shoving the last [the adapter plug] scrubber. few fruits into its huge mouth. "Alf the food is laken. to Meretzky's first job, packing nuts gone," it says with its mouth full. "Where am I and bolts for his father's hardware gonna sleep tonight?" >EXAMINE IT The adapter seems designed to fit nine­ business, as the formative moment of >AFT.AFT prong plugs into five-prong outlets. his writing career. Most others think Main Hallway, Sector L that there's absolutely no connection, The Fussbudget gangles after you . >AFT.AFT.PLUG THE ADAPTER INTO THE SOCKET.PLUG THE CORD INTO THE and that all historians of interactive Director's Office ADAPTER. fiction are fruitcakes. This is the office of the station manager. It Main Hallway, Sector L Meretzky arrived at the is simply furnished, with a file cabinet and a Director's Office Institute of Technology desk. There's an electrical outlet on one wall. Sitting on the desk is a portable computer. in September of 1975 to pursue a Sitting on the desk is a portable computer career in architecture. MIT's and a slip of paper. Done. The Fussbudget gangles after you . Department of Architecture convinced Done. Meretzky that he should pursue a career >READ >TURN ON THE COMPUTER [What do you want to read?] in Construction Management. The computer beeps and the screen lights Following his unexpected graduation, >SLIP OF PAPER up, saying, "Please type password." several construction firms convinced [taking the slip of paper first] >TYPE "133" "Buy milk. Dentist at 3300. New password is Meretzky that he should pursue a career The screen says "Password accepted. Type as a game tester for Infocom. Finally, 133." 7 for memo file. Type 11 for correspondence >TURN ON THE PORTABLE COMPUTER file." by 1982, had convinced Meretzky that he should pursue a career Nothing happens. >TYPE 7 The Fussbudget shivers. "Does it seem The last page of the memo pad appears on as an author of interactive fiction chilly in here? I hate drafty places." A look of the screen: ("implementor" in Infocom lingo). concern crosses its face. "Do you think the "22-Bozbar. All personnel have teleported While at Infocom, a heart-warming heating units have failed?" down to the planet. I will be joining them in a interoffice romance blossomed between >EXAMINE THE COMPUTER chron or so, but I wanted to say goodbye to Steve and th Sales Department's The portable computer has a screen, a this old station; it's too bad we couldn't stop Elizabeth Rock. Married since keyboard, and a power cord. The screen is that reactor build-up. By the way, the latest September of 1985, Steve and Betty blank. reading for Critical 1s 6900." have no children, but they do have a The Fussbudget says, "See ya later, bub. >TIME garage door opener that they're very I'm gonna go catch some winks." It gangles Adjusted Galactic Standard Time is exactly out. proud of. 6897. Other works of interactive fiction by >PLUG THE POWER CORD INTO THE ELECTRICAL OUTLET Steve Meretzky: The cord ends in a nine-prong plug, but the Planetfall ( 1983) outlet will only accept five-prong plugs. Sorcerer (1984) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1984) (with ) A Mind Forever Voyaiing (1985) Leather Goddesses of Phobos (I 986)

6 Instruction Manual Instruction Manual 7 SECTION II: ABOUT Star.ting and Stopping continue the story from your SAVE. Station/all understands many · INFOCOM'S Startmf? the story: To load Station/al/ You can type LOOK for a description of different kinds of sentences. Here are where you are. examples, using objects and characters INTERACTIVE FICTION follow the instructions on the ' Reference Card in your package. Quittinf? and restartinf?: If you want to that don't actually appear in An Overview: What is On your screen, you will see a start over from the beginning, type Station/all: interactive fiction? description of the opening location of RESTART and press the RETURN (or Interactive fiction is a story in which ENTER) key. (This is usually faster than >WALK TO THE NORTH the story, D~ck . Fiv~, followed by the >WEST you are the main character. Each promp~ (> ), indicatmg that Station/all re-booting) Station/al/ will ask you to confirm this command. >NE interactive story, such as Stationfall, 1s waiting for your first input. >DOWN presents you with a series of locations, He_re are a few inputs for you to try at If you want to stop entirely, type >TAKE THE METEORITE items, characters, and events. You can the f1~st severalyrompts. After typing QUIT and press RETURN (or ENTER). >OPEN THE HATCH affec:t the direction of the story by each input, don t forget to hit the Once again, Station/all will ask to make >READ THROUGH THE MANUAL mC?ving from place to place, using the RETURN (or ENTER) key. sure this is really what you want to do. >LIE DOWN ON THE ACCELERATION objects you find, and interacting with Remember: when you RESTART or COUCH the other characters. >INVENTORY QUIT, you must first SAVE if you ever >EXAMINE THE SHINY LASER RIFLE An important element of interactive >EXAMINE THE PATROL UNIFORM w~nt ~o return easily to your current >PUT THE POWER PACK IN THE RIFLE >WALK STARBOARD pomt m the story. >SHOW MY ANTENNAE TO THE ALIEN fiction is puzzle-solving. Think of a AMBASSADOR locked door or a ferocious beast not as >DROP THE CHRONOMETER >SHOOT THE MENACING ALIEN WITH THE a permanent obstacle, but merely as a Communicating with SHINY LASER RIFLE puzzle to be tackled. (Find the key that You should now have a feel for Infocom's Interactive >ASK THE SENTIENT CRAB ABOUT THE unlocks the door, or figure out what interacting with the story. You decide ELECTRON MICROSCOPE what to do next. Fiction tune will_chaim ~d tame that beast.) In Stationfall, you type your In Stat10nfall, time passes only in Saving and restoring: It will probably You can use multiple objects with take you several days to complete commands in plain English each time response to xour input. Nothing you see the prompt (>). Most of the certain verbs if you separate them by Station/all. ~sing the SAVE feature, happens until you type a sentence and sentences that Station/all will the word AND or by a comma. Some press the RETURN (or ENTER) key, so you can continue the story at a later examples: · time without having to start over from understand are imperative sentences. you can plan your turns as slowly and See the examples below. carefully as you want. the beginni_ng, just as you can place a >TAKE THE MEGAFUSE AND THE bookmark in a book you are reading. . When you have finished typing your TANGERINE ~n . the story, time is kept in input, press the RETURN (or ENTER) m1lhchrons, the galactic standard. A Even if you aren't about to stop >DROP THE BODLE OF ARGON THE playing, it's useful to SAVE before (or kex. Station/all will then respond, SPOON, AND THE LEMMING FOOD thousand rnillichrons make up one telling you whether your request is >PUT THE MATIER AND THE ANTI­ chron, and ten chrons make up one a~ter) trying something dangerous or MATIER IN THE BOX tncky. That way, even if you get lost possible at this point in the story, and day. In addition to keeping track of the what happened as a result. time, Station/all measures your or "killed" in the story, you can return You can include several commands on to your saved position. Station/all recognizes your words by progress by giving you a score. You'll their first six letters, and all one line if you separate them by the get P), and then press RETURN (or subsequent letters are ignored. For reaching certain new locations. A example, Station/all would not be command will handled in order as perft?ct score of 80 is your goal; ENTER). Then follow the instructions though you had "typed them ' for saving and restoring on your able to distinguish among SPACEShip, ~aking sure you have fun getting there SPACEStorm, and SPACESickness. individually at separate prompts. For IS ours. Refe_rence Card. Some computers examp_le, you could type all of the require a blank SAVE disk, initialized _To J?OVe around, just type the drrection you want to go. Directions following at once, before pressing the an~ formatted. Using a disk with data RETURN (or ENTER) key: on It (other than StatiOnfall saves) may can be abbreviated: NORTH to N, SOUTH to S, EAST to E, WEST to W, NORTHEAST result in the loss of that data >PUSH THE BUTION. ENTER THE SPACE depending on your You can I to NE, NORTHWEST to NW, SOUTHEAST compute~. to SE, SOUTHWEST to SW, UP to U, and SCOOTER THEN SHUT THE HATCH save >'our po~i.tion as often as you like by using add1t1onal blank disks. l DOWN to D. IN and OUT will also work in certain places. If Station/al/ doesn't understand one of Any time you want to return to a the_ sentences on your input line, saved position, just type RESTORE at or 1f an unusual event occurs it will the prompt(>), and hit RETURN (or ignore the rest of your input iine. ENTER). Then follow the instructions on your Reference Card. You can then

8 Instruction Manual Instruction Manual 9 The words IT and ALL can be very You can use quotes to answer a AGAIN - This will repeat your previous OOPS - If you mistype a word, such useful. For example: question, type something on a input. For instance, typing SHOOT that Station/all doesn't understand it, keyboard, or say something "out THE LASER AT THE RADIOM-POWERED you can correct yourself at the next >LOOK AT THE OXYGEN TANK. TAKE IT. loud." Examples: ROBOT then typing AGAIN would be like prompt by typing OOPS and the correct PUT ITON . trying to kill the robot twice in a row. word. For example, if you typed HAND >TURN ON THE HYPERSPATIAL >SAY "HELLO" You can abbreviate AGAIN to G. COMPUTER. PROGRAM IT. TURN IT OFF. >ANSWER "YES" THE CHAIN SAW TO GARNDMA and were >PICK UP THE ENERGY TABLET. SMELL >TYPE "520'' told "(I don't know the word 'garndma']" you IT. SWALLOW IT. BRIEF - This command tells Station/all >TAKE ALL could type OOPS GRANDMA rather than >TAKE ALL THE TOOLS Station/all tries to guess your to fully describe a location only retyping the entire sentence. >DROP ALL THE TOOLS EXCEPT THE intention when you give incomplete the first time you enter it. On WRENCH AND THE PHOTON SPANNER information. When it does so, it will subsequent visits, Station/all will tell QUIT - This lets you stop. If you want >TAKE ALL FROM THE CARTON you only the name of the location and >PUT ALL IN THE POCKET OF THE tell you. For example: to save your position before 9uitting, JUMPSUIT any objects present. Station/all follow the instructions in the 'Startmg >GIVE ALL BUT THE BATIERY TO THE >UNLOCK THE CONTROL PANEL will begin in BRIEF mode, and remain [with the key] and Stopping" section on page 8. You BROKEN CYBORG in BRIEF mode unless you use the can abbreviate QUIT to Q. The panel is now unlocked. VERBOSE or SUPERBRIEF commands. The word ALL refers to every visible or SUPERBRIEF tells Station/al/ to display RESTART -This stops the story and only the name of a place you have object except those inside something >SHOOT THE SEVEN-HEADED PURPLE starts it over from the beginning. else. If there were an apple on the ALIEN entered, even if you have never been ground and an orange mside a cabinet, [with the seven-headed purple alien gun] there before. In this mode, Station/all RESTORE - This restores a previously TAKE ALL would take the apple but not 'A bolt of energy vaporizes one of the alien's will not even mention which objects are heads. Unfortunately, it continues to saved position. See "Starting and the orange. advance, and there isn't a six-headed purple present. Of course, you can always get Stopping" on page 8 for more details. There are only three kinds of alien gun in sight. a full description of your location and questions that Station/all understands: the items there by typing LOOK. In SAVE - Thi~ puts a "snapshot" of your WHO IS (someone), WHERE IS If your command is ambiguous, SUPERBRIEF mode, the blank line current pos1t10n on your storage (something), and WHAT IS (something). Stat10nfal/ will ask you to clarify. You between turns will be eliminated. This disk. You can return to a saved Here are some examples you can try m can answer these questions simply by mode is meant for players who are position in the future usin& the Station/al/: supplying the missing information at already familiar with the geography. RESTORE command. See 'Starting and the very next prompt. For example: The VERBOSE command tells >WHO IS PLATO? Stopping" on page 8 for more details. >WHAT IS A ? >SHOW THE HOLOGRAM Station/all that you want a complete >WHERE IS EVERYBODY? Whom do you want to show the hologram to? description of each location, and the SCRIPT - This command tells your objects in it, every time you enter a printer to begin making a transcript of >THE BUG-EYED MONSTER location, even if you've been there When you meet intelligent creatures The monster takes one look at the hologram the story. A transcript may aid your in Station/all, you can talk to them of the slime pits of its homeworld, has an before. memory, but is not necessary, and will by typing their name, then a comma, acute attack of homesickness, and runs off in work only on certain computers. Read then whatever you want to say to them. search of a travel agent. DIAGNOSE - Station/all will give you a your Reference Card for details. Here are some examples: or report of your physical condition. >GIVE THE MELON TO THE ALIEN STATUS -This command gives you >ZEKE HELLO Which melon do you mean , the honevdew FOOTNOTE - Occasionally, the text in the following information: your current >CAPTAIN MEASEL, TELL ME ABOUT THE melon or the molay Venusian melon'! Station/all will mention the existence of ASTEROID mode of descriptiveness, your score, a a footnote. To read the footnote, ranking based on that score, and the >UNCLE ono, GIVE ME YOUR WALLET >MOLDY simply type FOOTNOTE followed by >BOY, RUN HOME THEN CALL THE The alien grateful for such a delicious current time in the story. Note that your POLICE homeworlcfdelicacy, gives you its time travel the appropriate footnote number (for score and the time can also be found on >GALACTIC OVERLORD, PICK UP THAT belt. example, FOOTNOTE 7). This will not your status line at the top of the screen. PLANETOUD. EAT IT count as a turn. SUPERBRIEF - This command tells Notice that in the last two examples, INVENTORY - Station/al/ will list what you are giving the character more than Special Commands Statio11fal/ to give you the sparest level Below are explanations for a number of you are carrying and wearing. You of description. See BRIEF above. one command on the same input line. can abbreviate INVENTORY to I. But remember, many creatures in the useful one-word commands. In many story don't care for idle chatter. cases, these will not count as a tum. TIME - This will give you the current Type the command after the prompt (>) LOOK - This will give you a full time in the story. and press the RETURN (or ENTER) key. description of your location. You can abbreviate LOOK to L. UNSCRIPT - This tells your printer to stop making a transcript.

10 Instruction Manual Instruction Manual 11 VERBOSE - This command tells 6. Try everything you can think of - Common Complaints verbs. (For example, LOOK can become Station/all to give you the wordiest even strange or dangerous actions are Station/all will complain if your input LOOK AT, LOOK INSIDE, LOOK BEHIND, level of descnption. See BRIEF above. fun and may provide clues; you can confuses it completely. Stationfall LOOK UNDER, LOOK THROUGH, and so always save your position first. Here's would then ignore any further on.) VERSION - Station/all responds by a silly example: sentences on your input line. (Certain There seems to be a noun missing in showing you the release number and events, such as being attacked, will that sentence. This usually means the serial number of your copy of the >GIVE THE BASKETBALL TO THE LION also cause Station/all to ignore any your sentence was incomplete, such as story. Please include this information if The lion takes an experimental bite out of the basketball but spits it out. It continues to additional sentences on your input line, EAT THE BLUE or PUT THE BOOK IN THE. you ever report a "bug" in the story. gnaw on your leg. since the event may have changed your situation drastically.) Some of There were too many nouns in that WAIT - This causes time in the story to Thus, you discover that giving Station/all's complaints: sentence. An example is CARVE MY pass. Since nothing happens until you something more edible to the lion INITIALS ON THE TREE WITH THE KNIFE , type a sentence and press RETURN (or (that slab of raw meat?) might save I don't know the word "--~- which has three noun "phrases," one ENTER), you could leave your your leg. That word is not in the story's more than Station/all can digest in a computer, take a trip to Rigel Seven, vocabulary. Sometimes using a single action. then return to the story to find that 7. There are many possible routes to synonym or rephrasing will help; more nothing has changed. You can use WAIT the end of Stationfall. If you get likely, you're just barkmg up the I beg your pardon? You pressed the to make time pass in the story without stuck on one puzzle, move on to wrong tree. Stationfall recognizes RETURN (or ENTER) key without typing doing anything. For example, if you another. Some puzzles have more than over 800 words, all that you need to anything. met an alien robot, you might WAIT to one solution; other puzzles don't need use and most that you're likely to see if it will say anything; 1f you were to be solved at all. Sometimes you will use. However, Station/all uses many You can't see any here! aboard a moving space scooter, you have to solve one puzzle in order to words in its descriptions that it The object you referred to was not might WAIT to see where it goes. You obtain the item(s) or information you will not recognize in your inputs. visible. It may be somewhere else, or it can abbreviate WAIT to Z. need to solve another puzzle. Thus, you might read, 'The moon casts may be present but in a closed container. 8. Play Station/all with a friend! As the violet shadows across the crater." but Tips for Novices dual-brained worm beasts of discover that Station/all doesn't The other object[s] that you 1. Draw a map. It should include each Nebulon are fond of saying, "Two understand the words MOON or mentioned isn't [aren't] here. You location and the connections to heads are better than one." SHADOW or CRATER in your input. referred to several objects in the same adjoining locations. When you find 9. If you get completely stumped, you When this happens, you can assume sentence, and at least one wasn't that you don't need to refer to those yourself in a new place, make note of can order a hint booklet and map using visible. any interesting objects there. (See the things to complete the story; they are the order form in your package. You You can't use multiple [in]direct small sample map that goes along with don't need this booklet to enjoy the only there to create a more vivid image of your location. objects with " ". You can the sample transcript on page 4.) story, but it will help you to solve the use multiple objects (that is, nouns or Remember, there are 10 possible puzzles. You used the word " " in a noun phrases separated by AND or a directions (NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST, way that I don't understand. NORTHEAST, NORTHWEST, SOUTHEAST, 10. Read the sample transcript on page comma) or the word ALL only with SOUTHWEST, UP, and DOWN) plus IN and 4 to get a feel for how interactive Station.[all knows the word but certain verbs, such as TAKE, DROP, and OUT. fiction works. couldn t use it in that sense. Usually PUT. For example, EXAMINE will not this is because Station/all knows it as a work with mu,l.tiple objects; you 2. EXAMINE all objects you come across 11 . You can word a command in many different part of speech. For example, couldn't say EXAMINE ALL or EXAMINE in the story. different ways. For example, if you if you typed GO TO THE LOWER LEVEL, THE BOWL AND THE SWORD. wanted to make a wish, you could type you are using LOWER as an adjective, 3. TAKE and carry as much as you can in any of the following: carry. Most objects that you find are but Station/all might know LOWER only That sentence isn't one I recognize. important for solving one or more of >DROP THE COIN DOWN THE WISHING as a verb, as in LOWER THE ROPE. Usually, this means that the syntax the puzzles you'll run into. WELL (sentence structure) you used is not >TOSS THE COIN INTO THE WELL There was no verb in that sentence! among the 300 or so syntaxes that 4. SAVE your place often, so that if you >PUT COIN IN WELL Unless you are answering a question, Station/all understands. For example, mess up or get "killed," you won't each sentence must have a verb (or one SIT UNDER THE TREE and SKIP AROUND have to start over from the beginning. If you type a sentence that Station/all of the special commands). Among the THE MAYPOLE are syntaxes that See page 8 for instructions. doesn't understand, try rephrasing most important verbs that Station/all wouldn't be recognized by Station/all. it or using synonyms. If Station/all still understands are TAKE, DROP, PUT, GIVE , There's a limited amount of space in 5. Read the story carefully! There are doesn't understand, you're probably LOOK, READ, EXAMINE, OPENi.,...CLOSE, often clues in the descriptions ENTER, EXIT, EAT and WEAR. there are the program, so syntaxes that are less trying something that isn't lillportant common or not useful aren't included. of locations and objects. for completing the story. many more. Remember: you can use a variety of prepositions with your Try rephrasing the sentence.

12 Instruction Manual Instruction Manual 13 We're Never Satisfied peri od a defec t on the medi um shou ld occur. the medium may Quick Reference Guide 3. After typing your input, you must be retu rned to lnfocom, Inc. or to an aut horized lnfocom. Inc. RETURN ENTER) Here at Infocom, we're constantly dealer, and ln foco m. Inc. wi ll replace the mediu m without I . To start the story ("boot up"), see press the {or key trying to "push back the envelope" and charge to you. Your sole and excl usive remedy in the event of a the separate Reference Card in your before Stationfall will respond. defect is expressly limited to replacement of the medi um as explore the possibilities of this provided above. 1l1is warranty gives you speci fi c legal ri gh ts Station/all package. 4. Your screen will display a special fledgling medium. Your input is and you may also have other rights which vary from state to state. 2. When you see the prompt (>) on line called the status line. It tells important. If you liked or di sliked the your screen, Stationfall is waiting for you your current location, your score, story, or some section of it, or if you THE ABOVE WARRANTIES FOR GOODS ARE IN LI EU your input. There are four kinds of and the current time (if known). found a bug, or if you think a certain OF ALL WARRANTI ES, EX PRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTOR Y, INCLUDI NG, BUT NOT LI MITED TO. AN Y sentences or commands that Stationfall 5. You can pick up and carry many of puzzle was too hard or too easy, or if IMPLI ED WAR RANTIES OF MERCHANTAB ILITY AND understands: you have some other suggestion, drop FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AN D OF AN Y the items you'll find in the story. OTHER WA RRAN TY OB LI GATION ON THE PART OF For example, if you type TAKE THE us a note! We love every excuse to stop INFOCOM, INC. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW A. Directions: To move from place to working, and a letter from you is just LIMITATIONS ON HOW LONG AN IMPLI ED place, just type the direction you want TUBE OF JELLY, you will then be WARRANTY LASTS, SO THE ABOVE LI MITATION MAY carrying it. Type INVENTORY to see such an excuse! Write to: NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN NO EVENT SHAL L INFOCOM, to go: NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST, INC. OR ANYONE ELSE WHO HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN NO~THEAST , NORTHWEST, SOUTHEAST, what items you have. THE CREATION AND PRODUCTION OF THIS SOUTHWEST, UP, DOWN, IN , or OUT. Infocom, Inc. COMPUTER SOFTWARE PROGRAM BE LI AB LE FOR 6. When you want to stop, save your 125 CambridgePark Drive INDI RECT, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTI AL DAMAGES, B. Actions: Just type what you want to P,lace in the story, or start over, read SUCH AS, BUT NOT LIM ITED TO, LOSS OF Cambridge, MA 02140 A TICIPATED PROFITS OR BENEFITS RESULTING do. Some examples: READ THE BOOK or 'Starting and Stopping" on page 8. Attn: FLOYD FROM THE USE OF THIS PROGRAM, OR ARI SING OUT OPEN THE DOOR or LOOK THROUGH THE 7. If you have trouble, refer to the OF ANY BREACH OF THIS WARRANTY. SOME STATES WINDOW or GIVE THE BALL TO THE CAT. DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUS ION OR LI MITATION OF specific section of the manual for more If You Have Technical INC ID ENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE More complex sentences are described detailed instructions. Problems ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. in "Communicatin~ with Infocom's N.B . After the warra nt y pe riod . a defective ln focom disk may be Interactive Fiction on page 9. You can call the Infocom Technical returned to lnfocom, Inc. with a check or money order for $5.00 Support Team to report "bugs" and U.S. fun ds for rep lacement. C. Commands to other characters: Talk technical problems, but not for hints to to characters in the story by typing their solve puzzles, at (617) 576-3190. 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