Compatible emulators

Synopsis

Ingrid Bottomlow stands out from her gnome family - she is a gifted student, a graduate of the Institute of Gnome Economics. As a result, they exile her using a teleportation spell, leaving her lost in the forest. It's your job to keep her safe in this interactive fiction game. The game is divided into three tasks, usually relating to animals, vegetables and minerals in that order. The first involves defeating an evil witch, the second is the shrinking teapot riddle, and the third involves gems. Commands such as FOLLOW, FIND, and GO TO make moving around the game world much easier and put the emphasis on object manipulation and character interaction, rather than map creation. Instructions can be given to other characters, with words like THEN, FIND, and GIVE to reach them. This cooperation is essential to solving many puzzles and takes place in a world where characters have their own goals and motivations. There are BRIEF and VERBOSE text modes. A running joke in the game is that the on-screen display adds a "g" to the beginning of all words starting with n - "gnorth" and "gnugget" for example. Graphics are included in the disc versions of the game, except for ports for Atari 8-bit and Apple II, which are text-only on all media.

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