Light My Way Home, by Caelyn Sandel (writing as Venus Hart)
Walkthrough by Andrew Schultz
This is a short Inform 7 game with a neat mechanic written for the 2014 ShuffleComp. It was
"commended," which happened for the top 1/3 of all entries. Commendation was the only
reward.
The main verb you use is POWER. You can power one electric item at a time. It's rather fun to
figure what to power, when, so this solution may short-circuit (heh) some of that. Be warned!
>e
>e
>n
>power shutter
>s
You can wait if you want.
>z
The beautiful person is stuck! Not enough light.
>power light
The beautiful person goes west.
>w
>w
Now they go south, unable to operate the radio.
>s
>power fan
The beautiful person plays with the fan. They'll continue to do so.
>n
>power radio
>s
>z
The person is gone, but they've moved the fan, to look at the radio. Thus:
>power fan
This blows some ash away.
If you want:
>x table
>power lamp
Until the beautiful person goes north,
>z
>n
>power radio
>z
>w
>z
>z
>z
(Maybe you'll have to wait more or less. But just wait. Eventually...)
And the beautiful person lays the photo down.
