Renga in Blue   Interactive fiction and the All the Adventures project

When people talk about being “stuck” in an adventure game, usually they mean there is some specific puzzle they can’t get by.

I’ve got exactly one puzzle I know I am stuck on.

I’m on a narrow ledge by a Throne-room
Across the chasm is another ledge. Visible items:

Very thin black bear. *MAGIC MIRROR*

> GET MIRROR

Bear won’t let me

I’ve some *ROYAL HONEY* that will make the bear happy and cause him/her to fall asleep, but since the royal honey is a treasure itself that causes me to lose points.

The extra problem is, I’ve got more points missing than just one treasure worth. I don’t know where else the other treasures might be. So I am clearly “stuck” somewhere but I have no idea what I should even be doing.

The map I have so far, excluding the maze. Click the image for a PDF version.

Let me summarize what I’ve seen:

* It turns out there is a HELP command dynamic based on what room you’re in and it can actually be helpful sometimes; solving the puzzle would have taken me longer otherwise. For instance, there’s a sunny meadow with a sleeping dragon where HELP gives you this message:

A voice BOOOOOMS out:
There are only 3 ways to wake the Dragon!

One puzzle involving an explosion I may not have worked out without the HELP command.

* A sequence later I needed to drive away the dragon to steal its eggs. I feel somewhat bad about that. I guess the dragon is evil so that makes it ok?

* There’s a tiny maze. Scott Adams must have felt obliged to provide a maze. It took all of five minutes to map.

* There’s a room I assume is a joke

I am in the memory chip of a COMPUTER!
I must have took a wrong turn!

but at this point I suppose I need to question everything.

* If you go down from the ledge near the swamp you end up in Hell. Whoops.

* With some deaths there’s an interesting afterlife scene:

I don’t think there’s a treasure here, but given the Acheton trick I’m not going to rule it out.