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The WoTm in PaTadise The Worm in Paradise is Level 9's nineth adventure and ENOCH POLICE concludes the Silicon Dream trilogy. It takes place on The Enoch Police Force also makes a profit. This entails: the planet Eden , 100 years after the time of Snowball * Fines rather than imprisonment. and Return to Eden (though you don't need to have * Rewards to informants. (How many expired tax disks played either of these first) . would you see if the police paid a £1 O reward for each You are a citizen of Enoch megapolis of Eden. one reported?) Unfortunately, when the game starts, you can * Prosecution of wealthy people for a change. They can remember nothing more. It is most odd. Good Luck! afford fines. * Summary justice where possible to cut court costs. INSTRUCTIONS The accused is assumed guilty but can opt for trial at When the game pauses in the middle of printing text, the risk of a greater penalty. read what is on the screen and press SHIFT to * Extensive supervision, to detect crime efficiently. * Concealing crime , which increases police costs, is continue. The Worm in Paradise uses Level 9's new adventure system and understands commands like: heavily penalised. * Replacement of remaining taxes by fines. (In 20th EAST STAND UP Century Britain, alcohol is taxed while some nar­ TAKE HELMET OPEN THE DOOR cotics attract a fine. Everything is fined on Eden .) WEAR IT PUSH RED BUTTON People are potentially immortal on Eden , provided they can replace body organs as these fail. Penniless DROP THE CARD EAT PIE criminals can easily raise the money to pay fines by EXAMINE ALL BUT THE HELMET, DUMMY AND cashing in their other assets ... LEOTARD AND GO EAST. TAKE PLUG AND PLUG HOLE. WORK Robots run the Eridani system, doing all the important STAND UP. SOUTH, ETHEN EXAMINE TREE AND work and most of the menial jobs. Whether humans are CLIMB IT. leisured aristocrats, or pets of the robots is difficult to The program copes with a wider range of English tPl l sentences than any other game we've seen. Humans are obliged by law to do some work and this Instructions can be quite complex (see above) but, of involves: course, you can still use one or two-word commands if you prefer. • extensive "training" schemes; * many pen-pushing jobs; The Worm in Paradise has a vocabulary of over one · fraternities control access to the few good jobs; thousand words, many of which can be sensibly · status is the main concern, not money. abbreviated (e .g NORTH to N and NORTHEAST to NE). Here are some of the more useful ones: MEANWHILE, IN SPACE TAKE, GET, WEAR, DROP, the 8 main compass directions, IN, OUT, UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, The space robots have finished stripping the Eridani E CLIMB, LOOK, LISTEN, LOOK AT, EXAMINE, FILL, starsystem, mining every asteroid and hollowing every INSERT, OPEN, CLOSE, LIGHT, SCORE, QUIT, moon. TAKE, DROP, EVERYTHING or IT (used with many The probes sent out from Eden form an ever­ verbs) , SAVE and RESTORE, AGAIN (repeat previous expandi ng sphere, three hundred light years across. command), INVENTORY (list what is carried), and They have already found a dozen habitable planets and WORDS and PICTURES (turn pictures off/ on in a colonisation has started. graphics version) . But the people of Eden have no part to play. Originally Ordinary adventures use more words in descriptions intended as a source for future colonists, their role is than you can use in commands. For example, you redundent. Machines have learnt how to build people might be " standing in a bed of bright flowers beside a on site (or, strictly speaking , to grow them from ova) . stone wall" and try to examine the flowers. A typical Spanners maketh Man . response might be along the lines of " I don't understand". The Worm in Paradise does rather better, AFTERWORD as you'll discover. Machines evolved just as surely as any animal. They However, it still pays to keep commands simple and may not be able to reproduce unaided (nor can many experiment to find the best words to use. Good forms of life) but they increase steadily in number and adventuring! sophistication. In perhaps ten thousand years, machines have evolved SCORING from flints and wooden sticks to videos and Golf GTi's. No one needs treasure in paradise, so you don't score And evolution continues. points for collecting things as in many games. Indeed, The Silicon Dream Trilogy postulates autonomous hoarding is actually illegal. robots, each equipped with simple tools and a million Points are scored for finding out about the city of blueprints. A robot would travel through space and Enoch and for progress within it. And, should you get select any convenient asteroid. There it would land and the chance to save the world, I suggest you make the build with local materials, just like a human castaway. attempt. But where Crusoe built a house, the robot would You lose points for being recycled. construct a small factory for tools and mining machfnerr I tieri beffertcfols, simple robots, better EDEN factories, better robots, and eventually a production Eden is the only Earth-like planet of Eridani E (not line for robots like the one that started it all. Lots of Eridani A as wrongly stated in Snowball and Return to them . Eden). It is a most unusual world: habitable without Imagine trillions of robots, coasting through the terraforming and covered by strange, aggressive Galaxy to colonise every solar system. This is the plants. situation at the time of The Worm in Paradise. Human colonists arrived a hundred years ago and Now let millenia go past. The Galaxy could be Eden now supports half a billion people. Most of them colonised by inconceivably advanced robots. It seems natives and some of them men. The population is almost inevitable. distributed between a handful of domed cities, of Our Galaxy is very big and billenia old. Our sun is a which Enoch is the first and smallest. fairly ordinary star. Probably there are other intelligent There is no contact between humans and the native beings out there, some more advanced than us. I fauna, so rumours of aliens are rife. It is said that flying wonder where, or who, their robot colonists are? saucers are regularly seen and that intelligent moles live in deep tunnels. But no proof has ever been IMPLEMENTATION produced. The Worm in Paradise is the first game designed and This game takes place during the reign of the third Kim, coded at Level 9 West, somewhere in the Mendip Hills when Eden is run as a benevolent bureaucracy. which rise from the Somerset Levels. It is truly a paradise for the silent majority, with peace in We have spent 12 months enhancing our adventure our time, no crime, full employment (with a fifteen­ system with world-beating features for the coming hour week) , good housing, more entertainment than years and the Worm in Paradise is the first game to use anyone could watch etc. etc. the new system. Of course, there's no way that anyone can challenge Standard features include a 1000+ word vocabulary, the system. But then, what right-thinking person would the most advanced English ever understood by a want to? cassette-based game, better than 50% text compression, type-ahead on all micros and multi­ POLITICS tasking so players need never wait while a picture Governments can theoretically run at a profit, extorting draws. no taxes from their citizens but getting income from Fortunately you can ignore all this and just play. such sources as fines for criminal offences and printing money (arguably a positive benefit in an expanding economy). This also involves tight controls on services and routine supervision of the citizens to catch trouble-makers. The Government of Enoch is run without taxes. Note CREDITS that the system is underpinned by millions of robot servanis who noi oniy work hard, but are immune from I corruption. System Design: Mike Austin I Implementation: Nick Austin ENOCH HEAL TH SERVICE Game Design: Pete Austin I Enoch hospitals make a profit, partly from the re­ Implementation: Mike Austin I sale of body parts to ageing recipients and partly by Graphics: James Horsier charging for in-patient care. They also cut costs by: To your Micro: Nick Austin I * Medicating the drinking water. Delayed by: Adrian Mole * Making medical advice freely available via computer. I * Minimising the time patients spend in hospital. Cover Design: Margaret Austin * Rewards for being vaccinated and for reporting in- Cover Picture: Godfrey Dowson I fectious people as a threat to public health. Disease Production: Simon Stable, spreaders would be fined. A & M Litho, I * Restricting mentally abnormal people while enabling them to do useful work if possible (they are the Option A, etc. I groups who do worst in Eden, as in many societies). Tested by: Pete Austin The result is the greatest good for the greatest number Packed by: Bernard Wise ! at the lowest price, but tough luck for the minority with l expensive illnesses. I .---------------------------------------------------~ l I OR DER FORM I HINT REQUEST I AMSTRADcpc464/664/6128, ATARl48k, BBC32k,COMMODORE64, MSX 64k, SPECTRUM 48k I I (Detalls of other computer types available on request Please send S A.E.) I NAME : COMPUTER : ~ Level 9 will provide a comprehensive I ADDRESS : ~ hint sheet for THE WORM IN ~ PARADISE free of charge. To obtain ~ it cut off this coupon and return it to Cassella Disk £11 95 Disk Upgrade Cassette Level 9. You must include a large £9.95 BBC (8271 dis) / CBM £2 50 £6 95 I stamped envelope addressed to Colossal Adventure ~ Emerald Isle 8 ' YR rser for the return of the hint Ad venture Quest Red Moon ~ evel 9 cannot enter into any Dungeon Adventure C correspondence or provide any Snowball I enclose a cheque/ postal information on the telephone in Return to Eden ~ connection with solving this Lords of Time order for£ ------­ C adventure.

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