solutions/EndMeansEscape.sol

The End Means Escape Walkthrough

Queen Kara
vampsyx@yahoo.com
http://www.100megsfree.com/qkara

Please let me know if there's a way to reach D.O. 
as I'd be interested in discussing the game with him ( ? ) . 
On the off chance that D.O. will see this : although I was very upset at times 
over the dictionary puzzle , I hope that you will make more games someday.
I thought that others would like to know more about this game though since
for some reason nobody's put up a walkthrough at baf's guide. 
I thought it was odd that there was a review but no walkthrough 
when I first saw this game , and so I hope that this file will get to
be up there once I'm finished so that other people like me 
can finally have a walkthrough for this most interesting game.
Thanks Michael J. Roberts for making the / a TADS viewer , D.O. for making the game , 
and my father for trying to help me with the dictionary puzzle.

Chamber Music

You start here.
( Even though it's called Chamber Music , I like to call it the strange room )
How odd , everything speaks here , yet there are no people.
Talk with the various objects about anything in the room.
You learn about the items in the process and you're also told interesting things.
If you type hint , eventually you'll be pushed in the right direction , 
you should ask the floor about the balloon again.
Then you get more help after talking with the floor.
I think you can try to force the scissors open and apoligize afterwards.
But you can get them open without using force.

ask floor about balloon
balloon, rub on floor
balloon, pick up bill
( for some reason this next part isn't in the hint system at all ) 
ask note about scissors 
ask scissors about dictionary
enter book

The Inner Dictionary

Now you're inside , but there doesn't seem to be any way out.
Wait a minute , we have a sentence here. 
Play with the words as suggested in the game.
Hey , turns out that we've got 
two groups of words here
and they can form two sentences.
You can have many words in the first "line" but a limited amount in the second.
Just to remind you , you can "pick up" , "drop" , "push" , and "pull" words.
You cannot "pick up" or "drop" the word "you".
It took me a while to get to :

Their turn remains hard
Nothing comes for you

Which got me :

The words stiffen their resolve.

Hmm , that didn't quite work out as planned , did it ?
Obviously we've got to try something else.

Take nothing and get :

You are weakened by the words.

Hmm. 

Trying "Their turn remains hard
Nothing comes for you" again gets you :

The words reject you.

Sigh. 
Guess that's really not it.

Here's what I've got so far :

Their turn remains hard
Nothing comes for you

So , that does something , 
but apparently we still 
haven't got things right.
Arg.

Their comes nothing
For you turn hard remains

Arg. 
That doesn't make much sense.
Why doesn't there seem to be a way
to have less or more words ?

Their turn remains
Nothing comes hard for you

Well , that didn't do anything. 
Ugh.

( anything here ) 
For you turn nothing

Darn , that doesn't change anything.

Let's try :

Their turn remains
For you nothing comes hard

Drat , that doesn't do anything either.

Their turn remains hard
For you nothing comes

Hmm. 
The words reject us again.

One night , while trying to solve this puzzle again , I asked my father for help.
Things weren't going well and dad was tired.
I messed around again and came up with :

nothing comes for their remains 

		you turn hard 

Something new!

"You make sense of your surroundings. 

(The words dissolve into their base..... 



A Landscape of Rigor 
Sweetly, the earth provides the grounds for the chains of risen hills
and the fields of straw that encircle you, and for the central plateau
that acts as your stage. 

You are joined by three others, composed in balance, three who stand
before you in endless anticipation: an old man, a woman, and a younger
man. "

I am so happy that I am finally finished with the dictionary puzzle.

A Landscape of Rigor 

"The airy day seasons the rolling land with its clarity, and drenches in
sunlight the figures of an old man, a woman, and a younger man, poised
in frozen action."
At last you get to interact with some people , but apparently they can't
interact with you.
Strangely enough , the first thing you'll have to do is remove their clothes.
You can examine various parts of their bodies. 
The old man is the key and the woman is useful.

x cut 
open cut 
pull staples with woman's hands
open wound

Eww...That was gross.
Apparently the young man is not important.
( But...Fun! *smiles* ) 

The Atomic Weight of Breath and Doubt 

I was confused , but the hints let me know that it's a maze.
*sighs*
I hate mazes.
However, the maze forms a word.

Win

A Seismic Void 

"You and this dingy star are locked in a system of unending cycles that
drifts in the boundless dark."

x force
take force
break force

"An anger wells up inside you. You push away. And although it never
quite breaks, the bond stretches so thin that you quickly lose its feel.


(You become a secret of the void....."

And we're done!