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==Links==
==Links==
* [http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/ Fully Ramblomatic.com] - Announced in the blog entry for 4/1/07: Counting Down.
* [http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/ Fully Ramblomatic.com] - Announced in the blog entry for 4/1/07: Counting Down.
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Revision as of 20:41, 12 January 2007

Horror
Horror
Home
Home
Under­ground
Under­ground
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 effects none
Graphics none
Sound/Music none
Ratings
Cruelty scale 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 body.zip from the author's website.

Links

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