The Wayfarer's Guide to Grueknapped
  A Bob Adams adventure converted to the Amiga by The Grue
             Played on Commodore Amiga

A nice conversion using Hatrack II of an Amstrad game written by
the Amster himself. The parser is a little limited but fairly
forgiving. The atmosphere is good with plenty of Adamsian examples
of humour.

You have been grueknapped and are trapped in the dreaded Grue
caverns below Ormskirk. Your tubby companion has been eaten and
the Grue is sleeping off his meal. You are next on the menu ...
unless you can escape through the locked door which the Grue is
sleeping behind. Your only way out is to prepare an alternative
snack, kippers cooked just the way he likes them.

From the start position in the hovel, E to the Eating Area, GET
HAT, WEAR HAT, N to the Multi-coloured Slop Shop where a spectrum
computer is. EXAM COMPUTER and discover it is one of the bouncy
rubber keyboard Speccies, but without a plug or power source. E to
the Big Mac Room, full of big raincoats. GET CRISPS, W, W to the
Art Gallery where Grue looks at pretty pictures and tries to
understand why humans pay fortunes for them.

EXAMINE PAINTING and find it is Ormskirk Quay, EXAMINE QUAY to
find an Adams misspelling which should be Key. GET KEY, N to the
Paddy O'Doors Room where a useful pair of nutcrackers are. GET
NUTCRACKERS, E to the Fancy Dress Room where a rickety cupboard
hangs off the wall, UNLOCK CUPBOARD, OPEN CUPBOARD and GET TIGHTS
you find in it. LOOK BEHIND CUPBOARD and find a wand. GET WAND.

E to the Games Room where a whip is, the sort of games played
here are best left to the imagination. GET WHIP, W, W, GET DAGGER,
S, E, S back to the Eating Area. E to the Washing Area where a
sink is. EXAMINE SINK to find a plug. GET PLUG and EXAMINE PLUG
finding it is a 13amp variety. TIE PLUG TO COMPUTER and you only
need a power source.

W, S to a large notice board where a large pin is stuck in.
EXAMINE NOTICE BOARD, GET PIN, W to a High Room with a shelf
positioned too high to see what's on it. DROP COMPUTER, JUMP ON
COMPUTER and the ultra-springy keyboard launches you into the air.
Hanging onto the shelf you discover a currant. GET CURRANT and you
find it should have read CURRENT. GET CURRENT and you now have a
portable power source. D, GET COMPUTER, TIE CURRENT TO COMPUTER to
connect it.

S to the Question of Sport Room where there are a pair of cricket
balls. GET BALLS and a very surprised large cricket screams and
runs off to cower under the table in the Eating Area to plot his
revenge on you. E to the gurgling Gourmet Room where a packet of
seeds is. GET SEEDS, E to the Role Play Room where a block of wood
lies, too heavy to lift. W, W, N, E, N back to the Eating Area.
(Do look under the table to see the aggrieved cricket).

E, E to the Kitchen where the oven is. obviously this is where to
cook the alternate meal, but where are the ingredients? E to the
Well Room where your eye catches a flash of light from the well.
EXAMINE FLASH to see it is a fish. If only you had a rod and line.

BEND PIN WITH NUTCRACKERS to make a hook, TIE HOOK TO WHIP making
a fishing rod. But no bait as yet.

N to Queue Gardens, GET EARTH, E to Bill and Ben's Potting Shed
where a pot is, GET POT, W, S back to Well Room, S to the
Solutions Room where fertiliser and an Adventure Probe flyer are.
GET FERTILISER (funny, I didn't know Bob knew that word), E to the
Belfry where a bat (Botham) is flying about. How to catch the
beast? Well, if you had a net ... wait, tights are net-like. THROW
TIGHTS IN AIR. The bat becomes entangled and easily caught.
Perhaps he would placate the wounded cricket.

W, W to the Smallest Room where the Andrex puppy is (pick him up
and you will have a wet shirt), W to the Colossal Room. An axe and
a cage are here. GET ALL, E, E, N, W, W, W, S, W, S, E, E back to
the block of wood. CHOP WOOD WITH AXE and you cut off a
worm-ridden chip. LOOK for the worm and GET WORM. TIE WORM TO ROD.
You now have a baited fishing rod. The cage and seeds could be
useful. PUT SEEDS IN CAGE.

W, W, N, E, N, E, E, E to the Well Room. EXAMINE FLASH, CATCH FISH
and all the water vanishes leaving a way down. You now have an
alternate meal. W, W, W to the Eating Area. LOOK UNDER TABLE, GIVE
BAT TO CRICKET who plays with it happily. EXAMINE CRISPS to find
they are bacon flavour. PUT EARTH IN POT, PUT FERTILISER IN POT,
PLANT CRISPS IN POT. They flower into a small tree. EXAMINE TREE
to find it is a bacon tree. PUT TREE ON TABLE. (DROP ALL to be
able to do this).

E, E, E to the Well Room, D to the Well Bottom, E, GET SWISS ROLL,
W, S, S, E to a parrot. CATCH PARROT (having the seed in the cage
it gets in and is trapped). S, W to where a snake blocks the path.
GIVE CAGE TO SNAKE which eats polly and crawls into a hole to
digest it. NW, E to a Hole, IN to a Magical Cave where a frog is.

KISS FROG and it turns into a princess (who is very annoyed that
you interrupted her frog meditations). EXAMINE PRINCESS. She puts
a magazine into your pocket. EXAMINE MAGAZINE, READ MAGAZINE and
find that it has a free computer tape on the front. EXAMINE TAPE

and you find it is a recipe for a kipper dish found irresistible
by Grues. But how to get back to the Well Room?

EXAMINE WAND for a clue, WAVE WAND and scratch marks will appear
on the wall. EXAMINE SCRATCH MARKS and they tell you to SAY FROB
and with a flash you find yourself in the Well Room. PLAY TAPE and
the computer prints out a recipe. GET RECIPE, W to the Kitchen,
EXAMINE OVEN, LIGHT OVEN (to light the grill), COOK FISH. Having
cooked the kipper, GET KIPPER, W, W to the Eating Area, PUT KIPPER
ON TABLE. CALL GRUE. If all has been done correctly, Grue rushes
in, sees the kipper, grabs it and is attacked by the cricket with
the bat.

Yes, you were wrong. It wasn't a bacon tree, it was a HAM BUSH. In
the confusion go W and escape W through the now open door.

You do not get the usual pleasantries and congratulations on
completing the game but you do have the satisfaction of having
completed it. This is to the chagrin and annoyance of the author
who vows you will not have it so easy next time.
The only non used items are a mattress (a red herring re the
springboard puzzle) and a leaflet advertising Adventure Probe
magazine though this should be read as it is a very interesting
document.

Two minor bugs are that the cricket is described as taking refuge
under the table in the Hovel (actually it is in the Eating Area).
Also the input is 'light oven' and not 'light grill' as the room
description leads you to suppose.

One more major bug (which does not detract from the game) is that
having given the bat to the cricket it remains in your inventory.
Thus it is possible to catch the bat again and have it in your
possession and conceivably (but not tried) to offer it to the
cricket which is sitting under the table playing happily with the
bat it was first given.

NB The table only appears when you are holding the hat. Bob
believes that you would have to hold the hat to shed enough light
in the room to see the table.