Another Terminal Beach - The Interactive Fiction - Answers

You can use this list of commands to work your way through my text-based game version of JG Ballard's short story The Terminal Beach. Don't think of it as cheating, even if you've memorised every word of the story, you're unlikely to make it to the end without using this list!

The only places where I've cheated a bit are the points where Traven (you, the player) has to say something to move the action forward. The game will progress whatever you input at these points. You could copy Traven's actual replies from the original story, but that might be asking a bit much. Use your imagination and have some fun with this.

Anyway, enjoy creating your own version of The Terminal Beach.

(Remember typing E is the same as typing Go East and so on)

E
drink water
SE
enter door
NE
take old magazines
SW
E
take key
E
enter B29
take ration packs
put packs on pallet
exit
push pallet W
push pallet W
SE
take playlist
E
W
NW
W
E
E
NE
take photograph and playlist
SW
SE
enter shack
take rations
enter office
take charts
exit
NW
NE
NE
[say something] x 3
SW
S
[say something] x 5
NE
SE
E
Z [this means wait for a bit]
Z
W
[say something] x 9
S
open canteen
open tin
[say something] x 7
kill fly
pick up Yasuda
put Yasuda on lid
push lid E

[phew - you've made it - try looking at the AMUSING option at the end]

Mike Bonsall - June 2014

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