🧭 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

Leather Goddesses of Phobos

For Your Amusement

You shouldn't develop anything in this section until you've finished Leather Goddesses of Phobos. Things in this section will invariably give away the answers to puzzles in the game.

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

Have you ever tried to...

...play Leather Goddesses of Phobos™ as a man if you're a woman, or vice versa?
...buy a beer in the bar before relieving yourself?
...enter the men's room after entering the ladies' room first (or vice versa)?
...flush the toilet?
...eat the pizza? And then typed VOMIT?
...urinate in something other than a toilet?
...not go to the bathroom?
...knock on the door of Trent's/Tiffany's cell before opening the door?
...lead Trent/Tiffany into your cell? (Try in all three naughtiness levels.)
...call Trent "Tiffany" (while playing as a man), or vice versa?
...walk west in the Observation Room?
...jump off the prison Roof on Phobos?
...touch, examine, or put something on one of the black circles?
...push Trent/Tiffany into the tree hole (Fork, Of Sorts)?
...jump into the tree hole while being chased by the flytrap?
...get into the tree hole after trapping the flytrap there?
...ask Trent/Tiffany about the odd machine?
...T-remove the tray and then examine it?
...use the odd machine on the rabbit?
...use the odd machine on the raft then put the raft in the canal?
...run the cotton balls through the odd machine then examine them?
...DIAGNOSE and examine yourself as a gorilla?
...examine your body on the slab while you're a gorilla?
...examine Trent's/Tiffany's body on the slab while you're a gorilla?
...leave the Laboratory while you're a gorilla?
...whip someone with the rubber hose (not in TAME mode)?
...give anything to King Mitre?
...shake King Mitre's hand?
...examine (the unangled) Princess Theta?
...marry Princess Theta (in both her angled and unangled forms)?
...put the unangling cream on the pile of angles? On King Mitre?
...touch the frog?
...ask Trent/Tiffany to kiss the frog?
...click the mouse?
...sink the royal barge?
...examine, awaken, or kiss the dead alien messenger?
...put the lip balm on the dead alien messenger?
...give the flexible black circle back to the proprietor?
...show the dead alien's coded message to the Sultan/Sultaness?
...ask the harem guard for a different number than the "correct" number? Several times?
...ask the harem guard for the same number twice in a row?
...wait instead of answering "yes" when the Sultan/Sultaness asks if you're ready for the riddle?
...wait instead of answering the riddle right away?
...SAVE your position in the Audience Chamber before answering the riddle?
...return from the Inner Harem to the Harem holding the secret map after the Sultan's wife/Sultaness' husband warns you that if you leave that way "the harem guards will..."
...thank the Sultan's wife/Sultaness' husband after getting the torch and secret map?
...measure the Sultan's wife?
...measure the Sultaness' husband (in all three naughtiness levels)?
...make love to the Sultan'swife/Sultaness' husband a second time (not in TAME mode)?
...speak to the Sultan's wife or Sultaness' husband by his or her wrong number? (e.g., SULTAN'S WIFE #123, HELLO, instead of SULTAN'S WIFE #789, HELLO)
...move around in the Catacombs without a light?
...read the Cleveland phone book?
...deflate the raft? While it's in the water? While it's in the water and you're in it?
...put the raft in the Oasis?
...take or open the buoy (if you've solved Zork I®.)
...have sex with anyone while radiated from the ion beam?
...talk to the robot baby?
...kiss or rock the robot baby while it's crying?
...suckle the robot baby (playing as both a male and a female)?
...toss the robot baby into the canal?
...count the leaves? (That's also how many were in the pile of leaves in Zork I.)
...tie the strips of cloth (from the partially-made rope) to anything?
...screw the stallion?
...go into space from the battleship without putting on the white suit?
...tell Elysia/Elysium to shut up while he/she is screaming?
...read the photo that Elysia/Elysium gives you?
...ask various characters about the Leather Goddesses? (such as Trent/Tiffany, the salesman, the mad scientist, Thorbast/Thorbala, Elysia/Elysium, King Mitre, Princess Theta, the Sultan/Sultaness, the Sultan's wife/Sultaness' husband, the Exit Shop proprietor...)
...get fresh with the Leather Goddess in the Boudoir in TAME mode?
...kiss the Leather Goddess, not in TAME mode, while Trent/Tiffany is also in the Boudoir?
...get to the end of the Plaza scene without Trent/Tiffany present?
...get to the end of the Plaza scene without giving all of the eight parts to Trent/Tiffany?
...use "four letter words" in your inputs while in TAME mode?
...smell the barge or the flowers in the Garden?
...put the blanket, sheet, or sack on your head (if you've played The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy™)?
...open your mouth?
...give an age less than 5 while trying to enter LEWD mode?
...LOOK with your eyes closed? With your hands over your eyes?
...look through something that isn't transparent?
...look inside your overalls, loincloth, or bikini?
...typed control-B followed by a carriage return? (IBM version only!)