Software Pirate
Mushroomsoft
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Solution by Eq
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get parrot, exam parrot [dead and stuffed], read magazine [you learn you must steal an unreleased
computer game from a secure location], w, u, w, w, move bed, get broom, e, n, get key [the floor
collapses but the broom saves you and you drop downstairs], u, w, n, get broom, s, e, d, s, w,
unlock door, w, drop key, s, s, w, s, s, sw, w, n, nw, pawn parrot [to get cash, though it does not
appear in your inventory], se, s, e, ne, n, n, e, n, n, nw, w, w [this rubbish tip can only be
entered once without dying, and would have destroyed the parrot if you came here before pawning it],
sw, w, n, n, ne, nw, sw, s, s, s, s, exam wall, go through crack, exam phone, get sugar, n, n, n, n,
w, w, n, n, ne, s, s, s, e, e [you hear voices], follow voices [the boy scouts invite you to share a
brew], get brew [not an actual inventory object; they want sugar], give sugar [you get a concert
ticket], exam ticket [it includes the club's address], w, w, n, n, n, sw, s, s, e, e, e, ne,
se, sw, s, s, e, get chalk, e, e, climb gate, s, ne, get medallion, exam medallion [King Cedric],
wear medallion [so you don't keep dropping it], sw, climb gate, w, s, s, drop medallion [to
avoid drowning], s, s [you fall into the sea but a cruise liner picks you up; this only works once,
and you have limited turns on board, so don't waste them], n, e, e, e, n, n, e, e, s, s, get
cue, chalk cue [so you can play skilfully], play snooker [Cedric gives you some hints -- I
don't know what the number 02754 means -- and offers a swap for your chalk], swap chalk [you
get a Sex Pistols album], drop cue [to avoid being arrested for stealing; at this point the ship
drops you off back at the docks], e, ne, se, sw, s, s, e, e, s, s, get medallion, wear medallion,
sw, w, n, w, w, se, give album [Pete the punk gives you further hints; note BREAK ALBUM also works],
nw, e, e, s, s, s, get egg sandwich, give broom [as firewood for the charity workers], n, ne, ne,
get on bus [waiting first if the bus isn't present], look [we have arrived], w, w, nw, call cab
[this phone box works, unlike the earlier one], van dyke club [the driver needs a street address],
read address [from the ticket], warwrick road, exam taxi, exam poster [a hint that we will need a
hang-glider], wait [repeatedly until the taxi drops you off], look [we are outside the club;
don't go south from here because muggers will kill you], exam sign, se, s, s, buy hang glider,
n, n, nw, enter club [somebody's pint gets spilled], say sorry, wait [repeatedly until the
concert ends and Eric invites you to a party], say yes [you wake up the next morning beside the bus
stop], look, get handle, sw, w, n, w, w, w, climb wall, assemble glider, get glider, fly [you
descend to the valley below], drop glider, e, n, n, get spade, s, s, w, s, e, sw, w, w, nw, n [the
ground is soft], dig, drop spade, get torch, s, se, n, n, se, n, e, n, n, w, exam ground, exam
trapdoor, read message, drop egg sandwich [the trapdoor is destroyed], d, n, n [Cedric takes the
medallion], n [you need the torch for this dark room, though strangely it isn't necessary to
switch it on], exam room, press button [this turns on the lights elsewhere], s, e, drop torch
[obeying the sign about no metal items], e [a note indicates that the game is in the safe], w, w, w,
w, w, s, exam safe [missing a handle, but fortunately we have one], open safe
Completed with a score of 71%.
Two locations have errors in their descriptions. Location 88 (in the park) mentions an east exit
that is actually west, and location 109 (northeast of the featureless building) says you can go
north but you cannot.
