Solution for Adam Cadre's Shrapnel This is one weird game, which is better experienced and explored than merely solved. Following this walkthrough will not give you the full experience, even more than with most other games. Beware, therefore. If the game doesn't seem to progress, press any key. Also, you will die (or seem to die) often during the game. When this happens, type on, and the "restart" command will be automatically typed for you. Since most commands are movement commands, it is hard to find your place in this walkthrough. To help with this, I have marked every place where you "die" with the cause of your death. This walkthrough shows you all the deaths I could find, but not nearly all of the story. If you want more of that (and I suggest you do), examine things along the way, especially the various corpses. n [dogs] n, keep going n through the path until the voices cease and then two more times [gunpowder] e, w [shotgun] w, w, move rug, open trap door, d, u [cellar] e, drink wine (you can get a lot more exposition at this point, so experiment) [wine] e, no, examine corpse, s, e, w, u Congratulations. You have now finished Shrapnel, and you still don't understand what it was all about. Now start again and explore it for yourself. -- Richard Bos, August 2014