Halothane, An Interactive Restoration
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Interactive fiction by Quentin.D.Thompson (Ravi.P.Rajkumar), 1999
philip@giasmda.vsnl.net.in stupid_q@my-deja.com
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Two ways of solving the game, comments, and miscellaneous items of interest..
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NOTE: I completely realise that most of this information could just as
easily be put into the game file, halo.z5 (I still get a kick out
of that file name :-D), but I didn't want it to become halo.z8
and tempt fate at the hands of the two-hour rule - The Author.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1. A short walkthrough of Halothane (very few spoilers)
2. A detailed walkthrough of Halothane (PARENTAL ADVISORY: explicit spoilers)
3. Halothane: who, what, why, where, and how?
4. Future releases
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SHORT WALKTHROUGH (in the style of Paul.J.Godfrey)
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This is the absolute, no-fun, no-Easter Egg walkthrough for Halothane.
(If you want a detailed one, see below.)
(you begin playing this game as Harold Banks, an author)
(you start in your bedroom)
north (Or south, or any other direction...)
(Now you know you need to get to bed)
examine bed
look under bed
look under desk
get fan
put fan on chair
switch on fan
lie on bed
sleep
Chapter 1
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(In the operating theatre)
west
turn valve
(This is the shortest solution.)
Chapter 2
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(In your study)
get manuscript
throw manuscript in dustbin
(depressing, but there it is..)
Chapter 3
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(In the kidnappers' car)
z.z.z.z.z.z.z.z
(In the open field)
north
north
Chapter 4
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(Outside the house)
open window
enter window
east
x woman
say hello to Simone
(you can ask Simone about many things here; this is a sample)
ask Simone about Mr. Author
ask Simone about herself
ask Simone about Rosenberg
ask Simone about Edward/Laura/Franklin (all give the same reply)
ask Simone about future
ask Simone about halothane
ask Simone about plan
ask Simone about successors
ask Simone about novel
(you can also ask Simone about other things, including the parallel
dimension, the solution, the house she's staying in, and so on.)
z
(keep on waiting until Simone hands you a pen)
Chapter 5
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(Red Lake)
open trapdoor
down
(Floating on Clouds)
north
east
east
east
up
east
get bottle
x it
read it
west
down
west
west
west
open bottle
throw acid at gate (as per the inscription)
("Dissolve gate" and "Pour acid on gate" also work.)
Chapter 6
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(in the Saloon)
ask receptionist about saloon
ask receptionist about legend
(Strange, isn't it?)
east
look under table
get device
up
north
get manual
read it
south
south
get black disc
north
west
put disc in computer
switch on computer
read screen
(Note the two dates, and remember the manual inscription.)
east
north
table, the code is 2187
search table
get chip
put chip in machine
south
east
search bed
get letter
read it
yes
(You need to know what the letter says.)
west
down
show letter to receptionist
(the receptionist will now take out a key)
examine key
get key
ask receptionist about key
up
up
north
x vase
put pen in vase
(As suggested by the doggerel verse.)
(You play the rest of the game as Cassandra Anderson, one of Harold's
characters)
Chapter 7
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(outside Cassandra's house)
north
knock on door
open door
north
north
east
east
north
look
x bed
search bed
search sheet
search mattress
look
x knife
open wardrobe
x corpse
search it
get cash card
(you have to leave the house now)
south
west
west
south
south
east
put cash card in machine
(an earlier version of the game accepted 'put ID in machine' as well, but
that's a bug.)
Chapter 8
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(by the railway tracks)
east
east
(entering Charlestown)
x statue
south
examine black door
(you need to know the name here. Remember it from Chapter Three?)
down
east
east
south
smash bulb
get key
north
west
west
up
north
east
south
east
x woman
ask woman about Sweeney
(search woman. get knife, if you want to kill Sweeney that way.)
west
north
west
south
east
x sweeney
x coffin
put love-letter in coffin
('throw knife at sweeney', 'microphone, any' and just waiting for 17 turns
or so also work, but this is the "optimal" solution).
Chapter 9
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(in the hospital)
north
north
east
get gown
wear it
west
north
east
get key
west
south
south
east
up
north
unlock locker with platinum key
get mask
wear mask
south
up
north
east
get cap
wear cap
west
x student
(no points for guessing who this is)
(If you're not wearing the scrub suit by this time, the student will tell
you what to do.)
north
north
Chapter 10
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(in the hut)
west
kill troll with pen
("Attack troll" and "Throw pen at troll" also work.)
(At some point in the game, type "help" to call up online help.)
Obviously, if you've used this walkthrough to breeze through the game, you
mightn't have got the entire story pat. (Not to mention that you missed
out on a lot of silly humour scattered in a few of the zones.) But this
is the shortest complete way of finishing Halothane.
[Actually, it's not _the_ shortest method. It's the shortest continuous
method. A stripped-down walkthrough would omit the conversational commands.]
