🧭 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

Plundered Hearts

For Your Amusement

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

Have you tried...

Looking under your chemise?
Examining your unmentionables?
All the alternative puzzle solutions?
All the different endings?
SMELL in the Crew's Quarters?
LISTEN TO THE MUSICIANS, when they're playing?
WAIT while Lafond seduces you?
KISS JAMISON (when you meet, in the Helena Louise, as you dance, in the Folly)?
SPILL WINE ON LAFOND?
KICK LAFOND (twice -- while dancing with him in the ballroom)?
ASK THE PIRATE (CRULLEY) ABOUT THE HOOK?
ASK COOKIE ABOUT HIMSELF?
HIT THE PIRATE WITH THE COFFER (twice) (aboard Lafond Deux)?
DRINK RUM?
TIP THE WATER BARREL?
Returning to the ship in the skiff? Going near what remains of the pyramid of casks?
Escaping the ship in the cask before the tide turns?
Waiting on the ship until she blows up?
SWING ON THE ROPE from the gallery before Jamison's crew comes to your rescue? Before the duel in the ballroom? When Cookie is following you? After Lafond has killed Nicholas in the duel?
OPEN THE PORTRAIT in front of Cookie?
Leading Cookie to the beach when you are searching for Nicholas?
Going to the forest right after your father runs to save Lucy?
LOOK at Jamison's ring? Lafond's ring? Tried to TAKE them? Translated the Latin?
Waiting around after Lafond kills Nicholas in the ballroom duel?
KISS CRULLEY?
KISS COOKIE?
EXAMINE JAMISON (when he's dead, in the ballroom, when you meet)?
Told Cookie about the fuse? the gunpowder? the reefs? fire?
NICHOLAS, I LOVE YOU?
NICHOLAS, I LOVE JEAN LAFOND (in the folly)?
Putting on boy's clothes, or stripping before Jamison returns with the coffer on the Helena Louise?
Saving your father in boy's clothes or your chemise?
Entering Lafond's room in boy's clothes or your chemise?
ROLL CRULLEY UNDER THE BED (when he's unconscious in the Cabin)?
ROLL EYES?
ROLL BOTTLE?
Looking at your ranks? (You get a new rank every 5 points, at 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25 points.)