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==How It Begins==
==How It Begins==
February 3rd, AD 2386.
It's February 3rd, AD 2386. You are a courier, carrying a parcel, standing in the lobby of the New Delhi Mental Hospital. Earlier, you met a weirdo in tattered red rags in an alley. He gave you a thick wad of cash and told you, in his oddly charismatic voice, to deliver his parcel here, and that there would be further instructions when you arrived.
 
The double doors of the New Delhi Mental Hospital hiss closed as you step into the lobby. The weight of a mail satchel cuts into your shoulder. Just as you did twenty separate times during the shuttle ride here, you wonder how you got into this mess.
 
The man in red assured you there would be further instructions when you arrived, but hadn't elaborated before disappearing into the shadowy alleyway where he had requested to meet you.
 
You almost didn't take the job. You're not in the business of delivering the parcels of homeless weirdos in tattered rags. But that had all changed when the weirdo had produced a wad of cash as thick as your thumb.
 
Had you not been so tired, you would probably have asked where the money had come from. But there was something about the man in red's voice. So smooth and charismatic, impossible to resist. Kind of like what God's voice must be like. Not merely instructing, or requesting, but simply stating how things were going to be, like he knew everything...
 
Forget it. Just another job. Get the instructions and deliver the parcel. Then enjoy the money and forget all about weirdos in red.
 


==Trivia and Comments==
==Trivia and Comments==
* This is the third 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]]''.  
* This is the third 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'' and continued in ''7 Days a Skeptic'' and ''Trilby's Notes''.
* 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==
==Versions==
===Release 1===
===Release 1===
Download <tt>[http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/6days/mind.zip mind.zip]</tt> from the author's website.
* ''Countdown 3 - the Mind'' ([[Ben Croshaw]] as "Yahtzee"; 18-Jan-2007; Z-code).
** Release 1 / Serial number 070110 / Inform 7 build 4B91 (I6/v6.31 lib 6/11N)
** {{babel|ifid=5FF9DC81-8924-11DB-88B0-00902790B6B8}}
** Download <tt>[http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/6days/mind.zip mind.zip]</tt> from the author's website.


==Links==
==Links==
* [http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/ Fully Ramblomatic.com] - Announced in the blog entry for 18/1/07: The Final Countdown.
* [http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/ Fully Ramblomatic.com] - Announced in the blog entry for 18/1/07: The Final Countdown.
===Reviews===
* {{IFRO game|Countdown 3 - The Mind|3855}}.
===Spoilers===
* {{dswxyz|Walkthrough|sol/countdown.html#count3}} - by [[David Welbourn]].


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Latest revision as of 21:37, 22 October 2014

Science Fiction
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Fiction
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Countdown 3 - the Mind
Author(s) Ben Croshaw
Publisher(s) n/a
Release date(s) 18-Jan-2007
Authoring system Inform 7
Platform(s) Z-code 5
Language(s) English
License(s) Freeware
Multimedia
Color effects none
Graphics none
Sound/Music none
Ratings
Cruelty scale Merciful

How It Begins

It's February 3rd, AD 2386. You are a courier, carrying a parcel, standing in the lobby of the New Delhi Mental Hospital. Earlier, you met a weirdo in tattered red rags in an alley. He gave you a thick wad of cash and told you, in his oddly charismatic voice, to deliver his parcel here, and that there would be further instructions when you arrived.

Trivia and Comments

  • This is the third 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 3 - the Mind (Ben Croshaw as "Yahtzee"; 18-Jan-2007; Z-code).
    • Release 1 / Serial number 070110 / Inform 7 build 4B91 (I6/v6.31 lib 6/11N)
    • IFID: 5FF9DC81-8924-11DB-88B0-00902790B6B8
      IFID links: IFDB
    • Download mind.zip from the author's website.

Links

Reviews

Spoilers

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