🧭 THE ARCHIVES

Quote of the day

You feel very funny, sort of squashed and pushed and squeezed. Your surroundings are wavering, then growing, then wavering again. The feeling vanishes, but your surroundings are ten times their former size... or is it that you are one-tenth your former size?

-- Spellbreaker

Factoid of the day

In Sorcerer, the VEZZA spell lets the player glimpse future events, including events from Spellbreaker. The spell was named after Infocom's then-CEO Albert Vezza, who most certainly misjudged the company's future.

Link of the day

The Gold Machine

Drew Cook's blog of deep dives into Infocom's works of interactive fiction

If you have an Infocom, interactive fiction, or adventure game link you'd like to see here, let me know.

Invisiclues

Stationfall

For Your Amusement

Expose this section only after you have completed the game. If you look at this section before finishing the game, you may learn the answers to puzzles you have not yet solved.

(Click or tap on any clue to reveal the clue.)

Have you tried...

...reading the pallets of boxes in the Forms Storage Room? Opened a box?
...to destroy the forms in the Forms Storage Room (or the Shipping Room)?
...picking Rex or Helen and then tried to complete the game?
...saying HELLO to Rex and Helen?
...falling asleep while still on the Duffy?
...to smell, kiss, scold, tickle, kill, and kick Floyd?
...talking to Floyd when he's turned off?
...searching Floyd when he's turned off?
...to put something in Floyd (while he's turned on)?
...asking Floyd to sit in the pilot seat? When he's in it?
...telling Floyd "yes" when he asks if he can pilot the spacetruck?
...turning on the SB radio in the spacetruck?
...pressing the red emergency button in the spacetruck? After all your fuel is gone?
...typing a course into the spacetruck's controls, then leaving the truck?
...launching the truck with the hatch open? Without being in a seat?
...typing in the wrong course and then waiting a few chrons for the air to run out?
...examining the Thermos bottle?
...to give any of the food items to Floyd?
...exercising in the Gym, both in and out of the exercise machine?
...looking behind the dryer?
...putting the J-series hyperdiode into the seven-pointed star?
...examining the eternal flame while it was on?
...turning on the Food Dispensing Unit in the Mess Hall? In the morning, afternoon, and evening?
...to throw the cup of coffee?
...reading the magazines in the Library?
...examining, searching, or entering the shrubbery in the Dome?
...to LOOK UNDER THE BED when you're in it?
...shaking the dispenser while there's an item lodged in it?
...getting into the trash can?
...drilling something (such as DRILL SAFE) before finding the drill?
...kissing Plato?
...reading Plato's volume of poetry? Have your tried to take it?
...asking Plato to open the safe, reach into the dispenser, take something from the heating chamber, get the seven-pointed star, open a security door, or destroy a hull welder?
...looking into the crystal ball?
...reading the posters in the Recruitment Office and the Travel Agency?
...using a simulation booth (by entering it and turning it on)? Repeatedly?
...to enter the cage in the Pet Store?
...spraying the can while hanging from the leash?
...smelling the balloon creature?
...scaring the ostrich while in the Robot Shop?
...giving the ostrich nip to Floyd?
...opening the airlock (wearing the space suit) with the ostrich or the balloon creature present?
...rolling the dice, repeatedly, in both one-gee and zero-gee areas?
...reading through all the Stellar Patrol ranks by typing 1 through 10 on the innocuous machine?
...to type a rank less than 1?
...to SHOOT ME, MY HANDS, PLATO, THE BALLOON CREATURE. THE OSTRICH, THE DISPENSING MACHINE, THE PULPIT, A SHRUB, or A BED?
...to shoot Oliver, with Floyd turned both on and off?
...shooting something you were holding? Something Floyd was holding?
...to SHOOT THE ZAPGUN WITH THE ZAPGUN?
...drilling your hand, the balloon creature, the ostrich, or the dispensing machine?
...smelling anything while wearing the space suit?
...falling asleep wearing the space suit?
...detonating the explosive without leaving the room?
...getting into the exercise machine while it was attacking you in Computer Control?
...shooting Floyd a second time in the Factory?
...to TURN ON FLOYD after shooting him in the Factory?
...typing DIAGNOSE in the Factory?
...climbing onto the pedestal in the Alien Ship? In the Factory?
...typing SAVE, RESTORE, RESTART, QUIT, SCRIPT, UNSCRIPT, or VERSION with Floyd present (and not turned on)?
...reading through all the footnotes? (There are 14 of them.)
...typing HELP?
...pouring something nonsensical (such as POUR BOOTS)?
...asking WHAT IS A GRUE?
...talking to anything inanimate (for example SMALL DRILL BIT, TELL ME ABOUT PLATO)?
...to clean the floor (anywhere) and the window (in the spacetruck)?
...asking Floyd to open the safe, kill the welder, get the seven-pointed star, reach into the dispenser hole, or open a security door?
...showing something to Floyd and then responding "yes" to his question?
...asking Floyd to get in the exercise machine, pilot the spacetruck, or take the balloon creature's leash?
...asking Floyd to wear anything (such as the boots, Patrol uniform, etc.)?
...to PLAY WITH FLOYD? How about later in the game, right before he disappears to the Factory?
...asking Plato about: Floyd, Plato, Oliver, the volume of poetry, the bedistor, the reflective foil, or the pattern of dots (in the alien ship)?
...asking Floyd about: Plato, Floyd, Oliver, any of the hyperdiodes, Hucka-bucka-beanstalk, the reflective foil, or the pattern of dots?