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{{game infobox|title=Countdown 1 - the Body|image=|author=[[Ben Croshaw]]|publisher=n/a|released=04-Jan-2007|authsystem=[[Inform 7]]|platform=[[Z-code]] 5|language=English|license=Freeware|color=none|graphics=none|sound=none|cruelty=Merciful}}

==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 to be released shortly. The trilogy is intended as a build-up to the release of a graphical adventure game which will be the fourth 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'' and continued in ''7 Days a Skeptic'' and ''Trilby's Notes''. 

==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
** Room count: 3
** Download <tt>[http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/6days/body.zip body.zip]</tt> from the author's website.

==Links==
* [http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/ Fully Ramblomatic.com] - Announced in the blog entry for 4/1/07: Counting Down.

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