The Curse of Rabenstein, release 4, 31 Oct 2019
By Stefan Vogt
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Solution by Garry Francis
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Note: This is the solution for the original Adventuron version of the game entered in Adventuron
Halloween Jam 2019. Later versions on other platforms are different.
This is a minimal solution to a very hard game. It took me over 2000 turns to solve it the first
time I played it! It's a guess-the-verb nightmare. EXAMINE and SEARCH are different. Apart from
GET and DROP, there are very few verbs that seem to be understood, even when you would expect them
to be. Unlike most other adventures, I discovered that you have to use USE for most useful commands.
Once you realise this, everything becomes much easier. If you systematically try EXAMINE, SEARCH and
USE on everything you find, you'll go a long way towards a solution.
The biggest problem is that you will often need to do something in one room that has repercussions
in another room, even though they might be unrelated, and there is no indication that anything has
changed. When you feel like you've hit a dead end, just revisit every room to see if anything
has changed. If you get desperate, repeat the EXAMINE, SEARCH and USE commands on everything. This
is a long, slow, tedious process, but it will pay dividends in the end.
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W
N
(X MAUSOLEUM) (you see shadow behind it)
X SHADOW (you find a torch)
GET TORCH
S
E
N
LIGHT TORCH
TALK INNKEEPER (she puts key on counter)
GET KEY
S
USE KEY (or OPEN STABLE, with key)
S
SEARCH GROUND (with torch to find crucifix & scrap of cloth)
GET CRUCIFIX
GET CLOTH
USE HORSES (you take horses and coach to stable)
SEARCH HAY (you find a bucket)
GET BUCKET
W
N
GIVE KEY (you can now talk to villagers)
TALK VILLAGERS (innkeeper places bottle on counter, you can now enter church)
GET BOTTLE
S
W
USE BELL (or RING BELL, someone opens door from inside, you can now enter)
W
SEARCH PEWS (you find a rope)
GET ROPE
USE STOUP (you can now pray)
PRAY (you can now give cloth to priest)
GIVE CLOTH (priest asks for water, you can now get water from the well)
E
E
USE ROPE (you tie rope to well, you can now use bucket)
USE BUCKET (you tie bucket to rope, you can now use bottle)
USE BOTTLE (you fill bottle with water)
W
W
GIVE BOTTLE (priest consecrates water, "find me tomorrow", scream heard outside)
E
N (vampire is attacking coachman)
USE TORCH (or THROW TORCH, vampire & coachman flee, you can now use bed)
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E
N
U
WEAR CRUCIFIX (you can now use bed)
USE BED (or SLEEP, you sleep & wake up years later, huh?)
USE SHEET (you tie it to bedpost)
SEARCH BED (you find old blanket)
USE BLANKET (you rappel down from window)
(X MONUMENT) (something horrible happened in 1798, 64 years before game started)
GET BLANKET
W
SEARCH DEBRIS (you find a shovel)
GET SHOVEL
N
SEARCH GRAVES (you find grave of Father Johann)
DIG (you find soil & coffin & read note that crumbles to dust)
OPEN COFFIN (you find skeleton & bottle)
GET BOTTLE
USE IT (you bless the soil)
GET SOIL
N
W
USE MATTRESS (you sleep & go to manor in morning)
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W
USE BLANKET (you cover window)
SEARCH BOOKS (you find a strange book)
PULL BOOK (you find a secret passage)
D
USE SOIL (vampire screams, lid opens, you run & vampire follows)
USE WATER (or THROW WATER, vampire is blinded)
PULL BLANKET (daylight kills vampire)
***THE END***
