🧭 THE ARCHIVES

Quote of the day

As the door swings open you are blinded by intense light and incredible pain. Just before everything overloads and you fade from existence, you can make out a shape outside, holding onto the door of the cylinder, and then everything goes dark.

-- Suspended

Factoid of the day

For most Infocom games, the packaging and "feelies" were designed to complement the story. For Wishbringer, though, the packaging was conceptualized before the game. Brian Moriarty reasoned that a magic ring or a glowing stone would make a great "feelie" to include in a game box. His peers thought it was a great idea, too, so he began developing Wishbringer, a story about a glowing magical stone.

Link of the day

Zarf Updates

IF author Andrew Plotkin's blog about all things IF.

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Invisiclues

A Mind Forever Voyaging

Part II

(Click or tap on any clue to reveal the clue.)

What is my goal in Part II?

Don't look at these hints until you've begun Part II.
Your goal won't be spelled out, as it was in Part I.
Personally, do you have confidence in the Plan?
Perelman's speech at the end of Part I contains a hint.
Via Interface Mode, get a status report from the Simulation Controller. (SIMULATION CONTROLLER, STATUS.)
The Simulation Controller has correlated so much data for 2041 that it can now provide a simulation for 2051 as well.
If you enter Simulation Mode now, you'll be able to go to 2041 or 2051. Explore 2051 for a while.
You may notice that not everything is going as well as in 2041. If you were in 2051 for more than 300 minutes, you may notice something else.
Specifically, that a 2061 simulation is now available!
Spending over 400 minutes in 2061 will make a 2071 simulation possible. Spending over 600 minutes in that simulation will make a 2081 simulation possible..
By the time you get to the simulation of 2081, which is very deadly and limited to six locations, it's quite apparent that the Plan is a dismal failure. Don't you want to let people know?
Use the same mechanism that you used in Part I.
The RECORD feature.
Record various things that seem onerous to you. Then show the recordings to Perelman. (SHOW RECORD BUFFER TO PERELMAN, TELL ABE ABOUT THE RECORDINGS, etc.)
Perelman will want recordings from each simulation (2051 through 2081) in order to see the progressive breakdown of society under the Plan.
Each "bad" sight or event that you can record has an internal "badness value." A complete listing; of these, along with their value, can be found in the section entitled RECORDING "POINTS." To prove to Perelman's satisfaction that the Plan is bad, you must record sights and events totaling (at least) 11 points from 2051, 21 points from 2061, 41 points from 2071, and 15 points from 2081. These badness points are internal to the program, invisible to you; Perelman will merely say things like "We want to see more from 2061."