Clean Air (release 2)
By Andrew Li
For Z-code interpreters
Solution by Garry Francis
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This is a minimal solution to a very hard game. There are lots of guess-the-verb scenarios. It is
very buggy (mainly bad spelling and grammar) and very mean. You'll need to EXAMINE lots of
things for this solution to make sense. Even then, it probably won't make much sense, as this
is a really weird game. Be prepared to die a lot. Dying quite often gives you an insight into
what's needed to solve a puzzle, so pay particular attention to all the messages.
There are quite a few situations where you need to press a key to continue, sometimes repeatedly.
These are not indicated in the solution, but should be obvious when the time comes. There are also
situations where you enter a new room, but you get a message without a room description. In this
case, try pressing a key or type LOOK.
In the latter part of the game, the screen colours change to a horrible black on dark blue. I found
this to be illegible using WinFrotz on Windows, so I used Son of Hunky Punk on an Android mobile
phone, as this didn't change the screen colours.
As always, some optional (but significant) commands are shown in brackets. You can omit these once
you know what to do. Here goes...
E
N
W
SEARCH DESK (you hear a metallic click)
(L) (you find a thin key)
GET KEY
E
N
D
E
N
(X CHECKOUT) (it's closed)
OPEN CHECKOUT (you find a towel)
GET TOWEL
(X MACHINE) (it has a compartment and button)
PUT KEY IN MACHINE
PRESS BUTTON (a duplicate key falls on floor)
GET KEYS
PUT KEY ON KEY (or COMBINE KEY WITH KEY)
S
W
N
TURN TAP (a transparent cube falls out)
PUT TOWEL ON CUBE
(X TOWEL) (it's now saturated with a strange substance)
N
UNLOCK STOREROOM DOOR WITH KEY
OPEN IT
E
GET HOOK (slab of meat crashes to ground)
GET SLAB (you remove a chunk of meat)
E
E
S
E
E ('It' is here)
WIPE FLOOR WITH TOWEL (your tracks are gone and 'it' is appeased)
W
W
N
W
W
W (ground rumbles and door seals itself)
(L)
STAND ON CRATE
OPEN GRILLE
PUT KEY IN GRILLE
GET OFF CRATE
S
S
W (gaping mouth of monolith is now here)
W
GET TOOTH
CUT ME WITH TOOTH (blood flows onto the meat)
W
(keep pressing a key until you return to your room)
Z
Z
Z (clock hits zero and day 2 starts)
E
N
N
D
N
N
STAND ON CRATE
GET KEY
GET OFF CRATE
UNLOCK STOREROOM DOOR WITH KEY
OPEN IT
E
E
E
S
PUT MEAT ON BELT ('they' are killed by contaminated meat)
N
W
W
W
S
S
W
W
W
***THE END***
