BUFFER ADVENTURE
Walk Through by Dorothy Millard (Spectrum Version)
Scenario
The adventure is set in the weird world of the Buffer Micro Shop. The object of the game is to
enter the shop and find your credit card so you can buy the goods in the shop.
Walk Through
(Start standing on a pavement in a busy High Street somewhere in Europe), S (inside the shop), GET
BELT, WEAR BELT, INVENTORY (note the belt is glowing and will provide light), S (back room where you
see a black box), GET BOX, (John gets angry and says to give it back), GIVE BOX, (otherwise the game
ends), E (extremely small room where you see a handle), PULL HANDLE (flushes the toilet), WASH HANDS
(note this gives you 5 points), W, S (repair workshop), GET HAMMER, GET CHISEL, N, D (murky cellar),
E (storeroom where you see a wooden crate), OPEN CRATE (using hammer and chisel - reveals some
shears), DROP HAMMER, DROP CHISEL, GET SHEARS, W, U.
S, NE (vault), E, (brightly lit room where Mike has a slip of paper with Buffer's address on
it), READ SIGN (no smoking), W (vault), ENTER 310, (Buffer's street number...the vault opens to
reveal a tiny key), GET KEY, E, E, N (damp room where there is a chest with a tiny keyhole), UNLOCK
CHEST (with tiny key - reveals a chunk of metal and two pins), GET METAL, GET PINS, S (library where
there is a mirror to the west), W, (only possible if carrying metal), W, SW, SE, (to dusty attic -
the floor collapses behind you), E (passage), E (playroom), S (dusty ballroom where Paul says that
for two pins he would give you a present), GIVE PINS, INVENTORY, (you have a large key in place of
the chunk of metal - note if you had not been carrying the metal he would have given you a piece of
wood).
N (playroom), GET STRING, W (passage), GET BALLOON, INVENTORY (now have a balloon on a string) W
(attic), W (east/west passage), READ SIGN, (danger - do not go beyond this point), W (musty smelling
room), N, (you fall through the floor, but the balloon slows your descent and you land safely in the
computer workshop... the balloon has burst), DROP STRING, S (cobbled courtyard), GET THERMOS (of
coffee), UNLOCK GATE (with large key), DROP KEY, S (garden where you see a sheep), SHEAR SHEEP, (now
see a cold, tattooed sheep), READ TATTOO ("Make a noise like a dog"), BARK (the bark falls
off the tree revealing a crack), DROP SHEARS, ENTER CRACK (slimy wooden staircase), D (large room
where you meet Jim), GIVE THERMOS (he says thanks and will now allow you to pass), S (cross-shaped
room), READ NOTICE, (says "In memory of Lilly Bittle, she was just a crazy mixed-up kid"),
LITTLE BILLY, (this opens the doors).
S (Arab room), S (cleaning room where you see a bucket of water), GET BUCKET, S (sitting room where
you see a blazing fire), POUR WATER, (puts out the fire), DROP BUCKET, E (bedroom), E (bathroom),
GET SPONGE, W, W (back to sitting room), ENTER FIREPLACE (secret junk room), W (flooded room), DROP
SPONGE (it soaks up the water leaving a muddy room), W (stone hall), D (landing), GET MATCH, D (damp
dungeon), GET FLOUR, U, U, U (landing where you see a pan of oil), GET OIL, U (tower room), U (windy
battlements where there is a large tank of rainwater), GET WATER, INVENTORY (now have a bowl of
flowery water), D (tower room where you see a cold stove), LIGHT STOVE, (with match), BOIL OIL, DROP
FLOUR, (in the pan to make some batter), GET BATTER, D, D, W (smelly cavern where an ogre asks which
of your puny objects will you attack him with), BATTER, (you have battered him to death).
W, (Alan's playroom where he is playing with his train, an Amtrack "Silver Meteor"...
or an American Express!), GET METEOR, E, E, E, E, E (sitting room), N, N, N, N (large room), U, U
(garden), N, N, N, N, (inside the shop), N (you cannot leave until you have paid for your
purchases), DROP METEOR, (American Express - you have succeeded, now you can try the door), GET
METEOR, N, (you're free... at last you can walk in the open air feeling the wind blowing in
your hair... and so what? It wasn't so bad in there anyway, was it? At least it wasn't
cold and wet).
THE END
Taken from Dorothy Irene's site: http://dorothyirene.fateback.com/
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