Countdown 1 - the Body

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Countdown 1 - the Body
Author(s)	Ben Croshaw
Publisher(s)	n/a
Release date(s)	04-Jan-2007
Authoring system	Inform 7
Platform(s)	Z-code 5
Language(s)	English
License(s)	Freeware
Multimedia
Color	none
Graphics	none
Sound/Music	none
Ratings
Cruelty scale	Merciful

Contents 1 How It Begins 2 Trivia and Comments 3 Versions 3.1 Release 1 4 Links 4.1 Reviews 4.2 Spoilers

How It Begins

August 18th, 1779. You are Jack Frehorn, carrying nothing. You are in the "harpsichord room" of your home, which now only contains a decorative end table bearing a bottle of rum, curtainless windows, the stairs up, a trapdoor down, and the door that leads outside. The cursed harpsichord you smashed on that horrible day, just over a year ago.

On July 28th, 1778, you murdered your greatest friend Wilbur with a gun and then butchered the body with an axe. At the grave, you pleaded for your life when a mysterious figure in black appeared. Satisfied, he disappeared. Exactly a year later, the Tall Man returned with instructions from his foetid master. Now, twenty-one days later, you will complete those instructions.

Trivia and Comments

• This is the first part of a trilogy of text adventure games. The trilogy was a build-up to the release of a graphical adventure game 6 Days A Sacrifice, the final part of the 5 Days a Stranger series.
• The player only gets an overview of what is an extensive backstory. This game (and the rest of the Countdown series) continues a storyline begun in Croshaw's freeware amateur graphical adventure 5 Days a Stranger, continued in 7 Days a Skeptic and Trilby's Notes, and concluded in 6 Days a Sacrifice.

Versions

Release 1

• Countdown 1 - the Body (Ben Croshaw as "Yahtzee"; 04-Jan-2007; Z-code 5).
  • Release 1 / Serial number 061219 / Inform 7 build 4B91 (I6/v6.31 lib 6/11N)
  • IFID: 11901B81-89E3-11DB-88B0-00902790B6B8
    Babel: metadata, download. (Babel services at IF Archive are not yet available.)
  • Room count: 3
  • Download body.zip from the author's website.

Links

• Fully Ramblomatic.com - Announced in the blog entry for 4/1/07: Counting Down.

Reviews

• Countdown 1 - The Body - at IFReviews.org.

Spoilers

• Walkthrough - by David Welbourn.

Countdown series by Ben Croshaw
Countdown 1 - the Body (2007)	Countdown 2 - the Soul (2007)	Countdown 3 - the Mind (2007)