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Cat and the Canary, The (cat-and-the-canary-solution.txt)

The Cat and the Canary
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By Michael Morizio
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This is a Quilled text adventure for the C64. There are some glitches in the coding but it is still
possible to play the game to completion. There are multiple endings, depending on how much of the
mystery you uncover, including several "good" endings and a couple of bad endings, where
you die. This solution gives the best ending.

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Solution by Strident
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WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM: YOU HAVE JUST INHERITED YOUR SHARE OF 2 MILLION DOLLARS FROM YOUR LATE UNCLE
IGNATZ STOP PLEASE BE AT WILLOW HOUSE TOMORROW AT MIDNIGHT IN ACCORDANCE WITH YOUR UNCLES WILL STOP
YOUR COUSINS AGATHA AND GARY WILL BE THERE ALSO STOP PHILO UNDERTEE ATTORNEY AT LAW

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You start outside the house...
S (if you leave now you will lose all chance of getting the money),
N (lawn), N (porch),
KNOCK DOOR (Reeves the butler answers it. Gary and Agatha are already here. He asks you to talk to
him later about Agatha),
(in foyer... Gary, Agatha and Reeves will change rooms every so often),
N (to living room),
TAKE NEWSPAPER, READ NEWSPAPER (broccoli crop doing well?!), READ NEWSPAPER (you see an
advertisement for your cousin Agatha's makeover salon),
WATCH TV (the cat and the canary... a nod to the inspiration for this game),
S (back to the foyer), W (the dining room), EAT SANDWICH, W (to the kitchen),
(In my game Reeves was here, but when you TALK to him he says he can't speak because
"she's around").
E, E, E (the library), EXAM BOOKS (a great many books here),
W, N (back to the living room), U,
(We're mainly killing time here, but let's explore the upstairs anyway... if you see
Reeves at any time you can try talking to him about Agatha; he is suspicious of her... also you may
randomly get a knife thrown at you at some point... examine the note it arrives with and you'll
see an IOU from Gary... who obviously has gambling debts!),
W, N (Gary's room), S, S (your room), S (closet),
GET ROBE (the bathroom doesn't really fit... you hear a faint click when you replace it on the
hook!),
N, N, E, E, E (upstairs hall),
(Around about this time Reeves may appear to let you know the attorney has arrived),
N (Agatha's room), S, S (the master bedroom),
EXAM TROPHIES (photos, a trophy, a plaque and a letter),
EXAM LETTER (from "The Boss"),
EXAM PHOTO (photos of your Uncle, you and your cousins),
EXAM PHOTO (you and your two cousins look VERY similar),
EXAM PLAQUE (large, has your uncle's monogram on it),
MOVE PLAQUE (there's a safe behind it),
N, W, D, S, E (back to the library - Mr Undertree says take a seat),
SIT (Gary enters... no Agatha though.... the will is read. Nobody knows where your uncle's
money is),
W, S, W (to the shed),
EXAM TOOLS (you find a crowbar, oilcan, pliers and a flashlight), GET CROWBAR, GET FLASHLIGHT, DROP
NEWSPAPER,
E, N (back to the foyer), N, U (top of stairs), W, S (back to your room),
LIE DOWN (a pair of hands pop out of one of the panels! You fight them off!),
GET BATHROBE (Click!), DROP BATHROBE, N,
EXAM PANEL (it's now open enough for you to go through it to the west),
W (it's dark here!), FLASHLIGHT ON, R (Secret passage... somebody has been trying to scare you
with fake monster hands), PRESS BUTTON (click!), 
N (passage continues north, staircase down), D, PRESS BUTTON (click!), SE (into a secret room),
EXAM RUG (nice), MOVE RUG (into the corner... urgh, a smell!), EXAM FLOORBOARDS (seem to have been
lifted recently), LIFT FLOOR (with crowbar... there's a body underneath!), EXAM BODY (a woman
of 35 years... familiar), NW, N, U,
PRESS BUTTON (another click), E (a bootleg room!), S (a speakeasy!),
PRESS BUTTON (a hidden door opens to the east), E (the entrance to the speakeasy, you can try going
further but it's too overgrown now), W, N, W, S, S, E (back to your room),
N, E, D, S, E (back to the library), EXAM BOOKS (alphabetical), LOOK I (there's the book you
need), GET BOOK, READ BOOK (a combination), W, N, U, E, S,
OPEN SAFE, GET CASH ($10 million!), 
(Now to unmask the killer...), N, W, D (to living room... hopefully Agatha is here, if not find her
elsewhere...), 
ACCUSE AGATHA (her wig comes off... it's actually Gary in disguise... Agatha was the body you
found. Gary killed her and planned to do the same to you and the butler!)

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You've solved the mystery, brought the killer to justice, and found the missing $10 million.

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