Next up is @8bitgames@oldbytes.space‘s great new game Blackwood Manor. We play this on the #commodore #c16.
#retrogaming #interactivefiction

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    The setting is: you‘re a writer that moved from NY to the Scottish highlands. Into an old manor. It is shortly before Christmas.

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      In the lounge we fall asleep and have a weird nightmare. Waking up we wonder if this was someone else’s experience, from long ago.

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        After getting up from the sleep we enter the bedroom, called the solar. Cora is there. Conversations are menu driven in this game.

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          We further explore the house. In the bathroom we find an intricate Celtic knot with garnets.

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            Outside we find a dovecote. The same as we saw in our dream. There is a spot where something is buried but we don’t have a shovel.

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              Back in Blackwood Manor: We managed to find a spade and found a key in the spot we saw in our dreams!
              #interactivefiction #blackwoodmanor

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                A little while later we find four silver plates, due to the key we found earlier. They depict four different saints. We have no idea yet what to make of those…

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                  While we are pondering what we do, we remember that Rosie left us her number. We call her up and ask her about the man with the scar, from our dreams.

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                    After Rosie gave us the hint, we search the portrait in question and find a kind of pocket…
                    #interactivefiction #blackwoodmanor