Research Dig
                     By Chris Armitage
           (1998 Interactive Fiction Competition)

    Walk Through by Dorothy Millard (PC Inform Version)

(Start outside the house), INVENTORY (carrying a satchel and
wearing a coat), EXAMINE SATCHEL, OPEN SATCHEL (reveals a lighter,
a letter from the Centre, your trowel and a reference book),
EXAMINE LIGHTER, READ LETTER, EXAMINE TROWEL, READ BOOK
(archaeology), S (garden), EXAMINE FRONT DOOR (St. Mary's), KNOCK
ON FRONT DOOR (it is opened and a man asks if he can help you...
you tell him why you're here and he invites you in to the
lounge..), EXAMINE CABINET, EXAMINE URN, EXAMINE LOUISE, E (dining
room), N (kitchen), EXAMINE CUPBOARD, OPEN CUPBOARD, GET BOX,
EXAMINE BOX, OPEN BOX (reveals five wax candles), S, W, N (hall),
GET SATCHEL, GET COAT, WEAR COAT, EXAMINE SMALL CUPBOARD, OPEN
SMALL CUPBOARD (reveals the shed and conservatory keys), GET SHED
KEY, GET CONSERVATORY KEY, OPEN DOOR, W (back to garden).

EXAMINE CONSERVATORY DOOR, UNLOCK CONSERVATORY DOOR WITH
CONSERVATORY KEY, OPEN CONSERVATORY DOOR, S (conservatory - there
is nothing you need in here and east only leads into the lounge),
N, W (garden path), EXAMINE SHED DOOR, UNLOCK SHED DOOR WITH SHED
KEY, OPEN SHED DOOR, GET GLOVES (gardening), GET CROW BAR, EXAMINE
CROW BAR, N, W (entrance to graveyard), W (dig site in the
graveyard), EXAMINE DIG, W (outside crypt), W (crypt), EXAMINE
COFFIN, OPEN COFFIN WITH CROW BAR (there is a very fine mist
covering the bottom of the coffin), ENTER COFFIN (you descend the
stairs in the coffin to a passageway under the coffin).

E (dark), WEAR GLOVES (otherwise the hot wax burns your fingers
and you drop the candle), GET TIN FROM SATCHEL, GET CANDLE FROM
TIN, GET LIGHTER FROM SATCHEL, LIGHT CANDLE (you are at an
underground jetty), EXAMINE BOAT (small, like a canoe), ENTER
BOAT, E (underground stairs), E (underground door), EXAMINE DOOR
(engraved with water symbol), OPEN DOOR (locked - you can't enter
this way), W, W, W, W (underground river), W (beach), W (open sea
where you see the Abbey perched on the top of the cliffs and a
small opening to the left of the tunnel), E (beach), OUT, NE
(small cave), NE (store room), E (library), U (staircase to
balcony above the great hall), LOOK DOWN (see the four symbols,
water, fire, earth and air), D, N (great hall), W (chapel), DROP
CANDLE, REMOVE GLOVES, GET STONE, EXAMINE STONE, WEAR GLOVES, GET
CANDLE, E, S, W, SW, SW (back to beach), E, E (passageway under
the coffin), U.

*** You have won ***
Score 10/10
Rank Grand Master Archaeologist









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