🧭 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

The Lurking Horror

For Your Amusement

Expose this section only after you have completed the game. If you look at this section before finishing the game, you may learn the answers to puzzles you have not yet solved.

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

Have you tried...

...taking the pc out of the terminal room?
...pushing the help key or asking the hacker for help at various times?
...turning off the pc while the hacker is fixing the bug?
...showing the hacker Chinese food? the stone? the hand? the rat?
...giving the hacker the bottle of Coke?
...reading the graffiti in the elevator? several times?
...putting things in the metal flask and then getting them.
...trying to escape the rats by climbing on the coaxial cables?
...eating the dead rat?
...attacking the urchin?
...reading the inscription over the west entrance to G. U .E. Tech?
...throwing the axe or the stone at the maintenance man?
...waiting around while the maintenance man slips on the wax?
...examining, smelling and listening to the various creatures?
...opening and looking in the iron plate near the altar?
...pouring Coke on the pentagram?
...putting the dead rat in the vat?
...pouring the tarry liquid?
...microwaving the reanimated hand?
...watching the elevator open the wall from the concrete box?