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46 lines
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"If you were to wade into this plot's deepest complications, you would only
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get wet up to your ankles."
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-- Aunt Hildegard
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Analysis of Mid-eighties text adventure games
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"So what, that's what they said about Suspended!"
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-- Naked South American Indian Girl
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on the post card in Hollywood's office
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The real plot synopsis: Anthill / Aunt Hildegard's Secret
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You get a letter from a lawyer telling you your dear old Aunt Hildegard,
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with whom you had spent many a summer vaction as a child, has passed away.
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You remember her to be a woman of considerable means. But before you can
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inherit her means you must meet one stipulation in her will, explains
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the lawyer. Her will states that the prospective heir will inheirit her entire
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estate, if he can find it, hidden in her kooky house in the form of treasure.
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The lawyer says you have X number of hours to complete the task. If you fail,
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(evil) Cousin Herman, who used to beat you up during the many summers he also
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spent at Aunt Hildegard's as a child, is next in line.
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Meanwhile, behind the scence, Aunt Hildegard is not really dead. She has
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the lawyer in on the scam. She is only testing you to see if you are
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worthy to inheirit the family fortune. But Cousin Herman shows up to complicate
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things.
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At first his plan is to simply scare you out of the house. Then really
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kill Aunt Hildagard (Making it look like she died by accident setting up
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a puzzle for you). Or make it look like you did it. But if you aren't easily
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scared, by the middle (?) of the game things heat up and he trys to kill you.
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(Things that were harmless in the beginning of the game change, with some type
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of warning, and are now deadly.)
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Options:
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Lawyer could be in on it with Herman.
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You must save Aunt Hildegard's life, Herman hasn't killed her yet. (One
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can envision you racing to free her from a buzz saw.)
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Herman dies from his greed.
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Etc. etc. |