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
