Tuesday, December 5, 2017

The Great North Pole Escape released + Walkthrough

As a bit of a Christmas thing, I've come up with a short text adventure for Lewd Jam 2017. Text adventures can be tricky to play blindly, as some actions might lead to non-obvious dead ends. So, I've also written a loose walk through to help you along the way.

The first thing to note is that commands use only a capital letter for the first letter, and proper nouns. No other words should be capitalized.

Command words and phrases include:
Push, Press, Use/Cast (item/spell) on (object/target), Search, Look at, Take, Throw (object), Talk to,  and so on.


This is the map of the game's layout. Your goal is to make your way to the list room, then exit to the west. You start out in room 1, the Captive Room. Here, you have a limited number of turns to make your escape before Santa comes in to brainwash you.

Search the desk drawer by using the phrase "Search drawer" or "Search desk drawer" to find a note that gives you the setup for the plot and a bobby pin. Take the bobby pin with "Take bobby pin" then "Use bobby pin on door"

This will stop Santa from getting in, and prevent him from catching you during your escape. Next, you should "Push tree" to break the window, "Pick up  book" to get the spell book then "Go east" to get outside. "Look at shed" to learn your first spell, Ho ho ho. You can check your spell book by typing "Read spellbook" or "Check spellbook".

From here, "Go south" to enter the reindeer shed, and "Search empty stall" to find bolt cutters. Take them, then "Use bolt cutters on lock" to break open the lock on the toolbox. "Search toolbox" to learn the second spell, "Holly Jolly"

At this point, the game diverges between two paths. The nice path, and the naughty path.

Nice Path:

Go north to the outdoors and then east into the shed/mindwipe chamber. "Press button" to activate the screen. You now have a limited time before you are brainwashed. "Use bolt cutters on cable" to break the screen, and your bolt cutters.

Exit to the west, then go south, east, then north to end up in the quality control and toy disposal room. "Throw metal shard into gears" or "Throw metal shard" to break the equipment that was destroying all the toys, then go south and "Talk to elf".

She will be happy about you fixing the problem and will allow you to enter the break room. Go into the break room and talk to her again to get the employee badge.

Return outside, and go north to enter the workshop, go west to enter the list room, and "Check list" to learn the final spell, "Figgy pudding". Go west again to confront Santa. He will freeze you in place, which will give you time to do one thing before he puts the brainwashing helmet on you. Cast Figgy Pudding to win.

Naughty Path:

Do not break your bolt cutters on this route; doing so will make the game unwinnable. In the sled room, "Cast ho ho ho on elf" to turn her into a whore, then talk to her to get her to invite you into the break room. "Fuck whore" (actually necessary on the naughty path, not doing this will lead to being vulnerable to the freeze spell in the finale)

"Use bolt cutters on locker" to get the Employee badge, and cast Holly Jolly to disguise yourself as an Elf. You can now proceed into the workshop, and the list room. This time, you cannot obtain the Figgy pudding spell, due to being naughty.

Enter the last room to the west, and "Use bolt cutters on Santa" to reveal Santa is actually a robotic suit. Now that the elf piloting it is revealed, "Cast ho ho ho on elf" to win.

14 comments:

  1. Already played through the game twice. Didn't find any bugs. Either you got lucky or it was hard to make bugs in such a short game... I'm going with the latter.

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    1. As a matter of fact, there were several bugs that got reported on newgrounds over the last few hours. x_x Probably going to kill my score.

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  3. Bug: You can enter the workshop with only the spell, without the badge, yet text informs you of both.

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  4. hi cant seem to get the figgy pudding spell to work on santa also I was wondering if this game will be updated really enjoyed

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    1. You need to just cast the spell, and not cast it on Santa. I don't think I'll be updating this game as it was a jam game. I might make more text adventures though when I have the time to spare for it.

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  5. Is this what we get this month instead of AH .42 update, or it's just delayed?

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    1. I'd wager that it's delayed in terms of posting the new update. Saw on his Patreon that the .42 update is out for $1+ Patreons, so he's probably not updated the blog.

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    2. He releases each update to the public on the 20th

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    3. There will be 0.42 on time. I just couldn't make the post because the last couple days were super busy.

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    4. @Cody: Both FF and I are aware of this, but he normally posts the update list the 13th when he's updated it for the Patreons, thus FF's question about it.

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