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1. BS THE ADVENTURES OF 2 WHEN I DEACTIVATE THE FORCE SHIELD THE HYPER SNAKE WILL DEVOUR THE SENATOR AND THEN YOU LANE m W fon THIS COIN IS WORTH 1 19 25 gt 7 T OF 2 87 VENUS FLYTRAP You can feed this live insects amburger from your own hand See now it lures traps and digests insects up to twenty times its size Free your home from flies at no cost to you 225 000 PICTURED Zylon era Zorkmid 4 500 were minted only 6 are accounted for Is there one in YOUR pocket AND HOW ABOUT THESE A rare 6 fooble piece from Fooblitzky Worth 3 200 A uniluminum Altairian Dollar minted in the days when you could still uy something with only one Altairian Dollar This supposedly worth less coin is now valued at 64 000 A gold doubloon from the S o Vera lost off the coast of Hardscrabble Island in 1698 If you can find it it s worth a fortune free map included with your first order Are you spending coins worth hundreds if not thousands of dollars Find out in our new informative 1936 illustrated book you Can Collect Coins It s yours for only 50 Check your coins before you send them Along with your valuable book you ll receive coins for your approval Every month you ll receive an additional 6 coins For each2. gt HONEYDEW The honeydew melon is ripe and juicy Leather Goddesses of Phobos recognizes over 900 words nearly all that you are likely to use in your comma nds However Leather Goddesses of Phobos uses many words in its descriptions that it will not recognize in your commands For example you might read The salesperson is busy showing some edible earrings to another customer and doesn t notice you pocketing the key If Leather Goddesses of Phobos doesn t understand the phrases EDIBLE EARRINGS or OTHER CUSTOMER in your input you can assume that you don t have to refer to them to complete the story they are only there to provide you with a more vivid description of where you are or what is going on Instruction Manual 19 Special Commands Below are explanations for a number of useful one word commands In many cases these will not count as a turn Type the command after the prompt gt and press the RETURN or ENTER key AGAIN Leather Goddesses of Phobos will respond as if you had repeated your previous command For instance typing KILL THE RADIUM POWERED RO BOT WITH THE SWORD then typing AGAIN would be like trying to kill the robot twice in a row You can abbreviate AGAIN to G BRIEF This command tells Leather Goddesses of Phobos to give you the full description of a location only the first time you enter it On subsequent visits Leather Goddesses of Phobos will tell you only the name of the locati
3. materials you ll need to ultimately defeat the Leather Goddesses of Phobos and save humanity Are you up for the job Some Recognized Verbs This is only a partial list of the verbs that Leather Goddesses of Phobos understands There are many more Some of the verbs listed can be found in all Infocom stories others are included especially for Leather Goddesses of Phobos Remember you can use a variety of prepositions with some verbs For example LOOK can become LOOK INSIDE LOOK BEHIND LOOK UNDER LOOK THROUGH LOOK AT and so on ANSWER APPLY ASK ATTACK BEND BITE BLOW BOARD BREAK BURN BUY CLIMB CLOSE COUNT DROP The Three Levels of Naughtiness EAT EMPTY ENTER EXAMINE EXIT FOLLOW GIVE HIDE JUMP KICK KISS KNOCK LICK LIE LISTEN LOOK MAKE MARRY MEASURE OPEN POINT POUR PULL PUSH PUT READ REMOVE RIP ROLL SEARCH SHOW SIT SLEEP SMELL STAIN STAND TAKE TASTE THROW TIE TOUCH TURN UNTIE WALK WEAR You can select from among three levels of naughti ness The first is the TAME level which has abso lutely no bad language or sex related situations Next is the SUGGESTIVE level which includes some naughty language and sexual innuendo but nothing that you wouldn t see on network TV Finally if you re feeling truly risqu there s our LEWD level which includes most of George Carlin s Seven Words You Can t Say on Television as well as examples of almost graphic sex Nat
4. taken SUPERBRIEF This command tells Leather God desses of Phobos to give you the sparest level of de scriptiveness See BRIEF above TAME This gives you a very wholesome version of Leather Goddesses of Phobos See The Three Lev els of Naughtiness on page 13 UNSCRIPT This commands your printer to stop making a transcript VERBOSE This command tells Leather Goddesses of Phobos to give you the wordiest level of descrip tiveness See BRIEF above VERSION Leather Goddesses of Phobos responds by showing you the release number and the serial number of your copy of the story Please include this information if you ever report a bug in the story WAIT This will cause time in the story to pass Nothing in the story will happen until you type a sentence and press the RETURN or ENTER key You could leave your computer take a nap eat lunch take a ride in a hovercraft compose a sonnet about the mating habits of baboons and return to the story to find that nothing has changed You can use WAIT to make time pass in the story without doing any thing For example if you met a talking baboon you might WAIT to see if it will say anything if you were in moving hove rcraft you might WAIT to see where it goes You can abbr eviate WAIT to Z Tips for Novices 1 Draw a map It should include each location and the directions connecting it to adjoming locations When you find yourself in a new location make a note
5. again Leather Goddesses of Phobos will ask if this is really what you want to do Remember when you RESTART or QUIT if you want to be able to return to your current position you must first use the SAVE command Instruction Manual 17 Communicating with Infocom s Interactive Fiction In Leather Goddesses of Phobos you type your com mands in plain English each time you see the prompt gt Leather Goddesses of Phobos usually acts as if your commands be gin with I want to although you shouldn t actually type those words You can use words like THE if you want and you can use capital letters if you want Leather Goddesses of Phobos doesn t care either way When you have finished typing a command press the RETURN or ENTER key Leather Goddesses of Phobos will then respond telling you whether your request is possible at this point in the story and what happened as a result Leather Goddesses of Phobos recognizes your words by their first six letters and all subsequent letters are ignored The refore SPACEShip SPACESuits and SPACESickness would all be treated as the same word by Leather Goddesses of Phobos To move around just type the direction you want to go Directions can be abbreviated NORTH to N SOUTH to S EAST to E WEST to W NORTHEAST to NE NORTHWEST to NW SOUTHEAST to SE SOUTHWEST to SW UP to U and DOWN to D IN and OUT will also work in certain places Leather Goddesses of Phobos understa
6. disk gt WAIT Time passes You are now nearing Ganymede orbit The landing thrusters kick on Suddenly the ship rocks We ve been hit Umberto shouts 5 those scurvy pirates The ship dives toward the surface and crashes lightly just beyond the city limits Just minor damages Umberto reports after cur sory inspection If you can get a welding torch and zinc plated gyroscope have her repaired in time While you re hunting up those parts I ll find out where those lawless scum have taken Rayana He dashes out of the ship Through the viewport you see him disappear among the narrow twisting streets of Ganymede City gt GET OUT OF THE ROCKET SHIP Outskirts of the City You are on the edge of Ganymede City which has been called the roughest town in the solar system Your rocket can be entered to the east A dilapidated building lies to the north and a seedy alley leads off to the southwest Instruction Manual 15 T THE SEEDY ALLEY Alle This is a blind alley curving from the mouth of the alley toward the northeast to a featureless unscalable wall just south of you Although it s a blind alley you have no trouble seeing the pack of thieves and cutthroats which have just en tered behind you gt FIRE THE SONIC BASTER AT THE FEATURELESS WALL I don t know the word 1 gt OOPS BLASTER Completely eerie an explosion of this magnitude should make SOME noise
7. of any interesting objects there See the small sample map that goes along with the sample transcript on page 14 There are 10 possible directions NORTH SOUTH EAST WEST NORTHEAST NORTHWEST SOUTHEAST SOUTHWEST UP and DOWN plus IN and OUT 2 EXAMINE all objects you come across in the story 3 TAKE all objects you come across in the story Most objects that you can pick up are important for solving one or more of the puzzles you ll run into 4 Save your place often That way if you mess up or get killed you won t have to start over from the beginning See page 17 for instructions 5 Read the story carefully There are often dues in the descriptions of locations and objects 6 Try everything you can think of even strange or dangerous actions are fun and may provide clues you can always save your position first Here s a silly example gt GIVE THE BASKETBALL TO THE LION The lion takes an experimental bite out of the basketball but spits it out It continues to gnaw on your leg Here you have clue that maybe giving something more edible to the lion that slab of raw meat might save your leg 7 Unlike other adventure games you may have played there are many possible routes to the end of Leather Goddesses of Phobos If you get stuck on one puzzle move on to another Some puzzles have more than one solution other puzzles don t need to be solved at all Sometimes you will have to solve one puz
8. right In any case the silent explosion leaves a gaping hole in the wall to the south The lowlifes draw closer They also draw knives gt SOUTH As you pass through the opening in the wall it collapses behind you blocking the pack of thieves Plush Bedroom This luxurious boudoir is lined with soft cushions and draped with the sheerest silks you ve ever seen The carpet is so thick and soft that you remove your boots without even thinking about it A delicious aroma fills the room A glass case stands next to the door at the eastern side of the room The glass case contains a zinc plated gyroscope gt SMELL THE AROMA Scratch spot number nine then hit the RETURN key You remember that smell from a heady week you once spent among the vineyards of lo Someone nearby is opening a of potent champagne You hear a sound from the doorway and spin around as a stunning redhead walks in with two glasses of spar kling champagne was hoping she whispers huskily Studying her as she dims the ights you decide that Miss Ganymede is even more sas in the flesh than she is in the 2036 Miss Solar System calendar gt TAME Tame descriptions Yawn Shall we begin the screening of La Grande Illusion ih asks Miss Ganymede continuing to dim the ights 16 Instruction Manual About the Author Steve Meretzky 1957 once enjoyed almost any thing that was fun and virtually ev
9. ER key so you can plan your turns as slowly and carefully as you want To measure your progress Leather Goddesses of Phobos keeps track of your score You may get points for solving puzzles performing certain actions or visiting certain locations You will also be assigned a rank based on your score Starting and Stopping Starting the story To load Leather Goddesses of Pho bos follow the instructions on the Reference Card in your package To get past the opening screen and into the story just press your RETURN or ENTER key You will then get a description of the opening location of the story Joe s Bar Then the prompt gt will appear indicating that Leather Goddesses of Phobos is waiting for your first input Here s a quick exercise to help you get accus tomed to interacting with Leather Goddesses of Pho bos Type the following command first gt INVENTORY Then press the RETURN or ENTER key Leather Goddesses of Phobos will respond by telling you what you are holding Then try gt READ THE COMIC BOOK After you press the RETURN or ENTER key Leather Goddesses of Phobos will again respond Now you decide what to do next Saving and restoring It will probably take you many days to complete Leather Goddesses of Phobos Using the SAVE feature you can continue the story at a later time without having to start over from the be ginning just as you can place a bookmark in a book you are reading SAVE p
10. G ALIEN GUN THEN SHOOT YOURSELF Notice that in the last two examples you are giving a person more than one command on the same input line But remember Most people in the story don t care for idle chatter Y our deeds will speak louder than your words You can use quotes to answer a question or say something out loud For example gt SAY gt ANSWER YES gt REPLY 348 Leather Goddesses of Phobos tries to guess what you really mean when you don t give enough infor mation For example if you say that you want to do something but not what you want to do it to or with Leather Goddesses of Phobos will sometimes decide that there is only one possible object you could mean When it does so it will tell you For example gt UNLOCK THE DOOR with the key The door is now unlocked or gt KILL THE RAPIST with the insurance policy You read the insurance policy to the rapist who dies of boredom If your command is ambiguous Leather Goddesses of Phobos will ask what you really mean You can answer most of these questions briefly by supplying the missing information rather than typing the en tire input again You can do this only at the very next prompt For example gt COVER THE BODY What do you want to cover the body with gt THE BLANKET You drape the blanket loosely over poor Mrs Filbert or gt EAT THE MELON Which melon do you mean the honeydew melon or the casaba melon
11. INVAPE OUR WORLD FIFTY YEARS AGO IN 936 SO TTHEIR WEXT ATTACK KE AND IFIWE DECOPED THEIR MESSAGES CORRECTLY ITS ONLY GAYS AWAY HOLY NOVA PRO FESSOR WE HAVEN T A MINUTE SEE ADVENTURES OF EC AGAINST THE MER CURIAN MONSTEROIDS UH OH THE DEEP SPACE ONISCOPE DETECTS ANOTHER SPACESHIP COLLISION COURSE LANE AN ZIGGERAUT MAKE A BEELINE FOR THE SPACEPORT COURSE FOR PHOBOS YOU GET HER SPACEREADY LANE GOT HIM AND JUST IN 7 ME THERE GOES HIS SH P SPINNING INTO THE VOID NTRA SHIP BIOSENSORS INDI CATE THAT THE ONLY PASSENGER S UNCON 5 005 TELEPORT OVER WHILE TAKE EVASIVE MANEUVERS GNS ANP ONE THAT AS THEY NEAR MARS THE VIS 7OR BEGINS YM LANE MASZ CC 7 RECOVER TODON if F 4 d e CR YOU MUST SENATOR TOUCHDOWN IN 780 PUT 75 THEY RE MUCH MORE MARTIAN CLIMATE EPARE FOR A ASH LANDING J MINUTES LATER THE LEATHER GODDESSES SE SHOULD BE JUST THE OTHER SIDE OF ON THE CANAL OS 2224 P X 7 4 E TAN S VS OUAP TF YOU NOW YOU RE YOUR MAMRE INT LENST EVERY ee P 5 MINUTES SCARE mig ONCE EVERY VINE Wl SHIP S EAP C
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13. S LANE LEADS THEM TO THE SCOUTSHIP AND SKILLFULLY PILOTS IT BACK TOWARD EARTH LATER THANKS YOU LANE EARTH IS SAVED UNTIL THE NEXT EXCITING ISSUE OF Instruction Manual for TABLE OF CONTENTS L eat h er G 0 dde sses 0 f Ph 0 b 05 Section 1 About Leather Goddesses of Phobos Preface to the Story Page 13 If you ve never played Infocom s interactive fiction Some Recognized Verbs 13 should read this entire instruction The Three Levels of Naughtiness 13 If you re an experienced Infocom player just read Sample Transcript and 14 Section I About Leather Goddesses of Phobos About the Author 16 Section About Infocom s Interactive Fiction An Overview 17 What is interactive fiction Moving around Turns and scoring Starting and Stopping 17 Booting up Saving and restoring Quitting and restarting Communicating with Infocom s Interactive Fiction 18 Basic sentences Complex sentences Talking to characters the story Vocabulary limitations Special Commands 20 Tips for Novices 21 Eleven useful pointers about interactive fiction Common Complaints 22 We re Never Satisfied 23 If You Have Technical Problems 23 Copyright and Warranty Information 23 Quick Reference Guide 24 A description of the most important things to know about interactive fiction 12 Instruction Manual SECTION I ABOUT LEATHER GODDESSES OF PHOBOS Preface t
14. ay be returned to Infocom Inc with a check or money order for 5 00 U S funds for replacement Copyright The enclosed software product is copyrighted and all rights are re served by Infocom Inc It is published exclusively by Infocom Inc The distribution and sale of this product are intended for the use of the original purchaser only and for use only on the computer system specified Lawful users of this program are hereby licensed only to read the program from its medium into memory of a computer solely for the purpose of executing the program Copying except for one backup copy on those systems which provide for it see Reference Card duplicating selling or otherwise distributing this product is a violation of the law This manual and all other documentation contained herein are copy righted and all rights reserved by Infocom Inc These documents may not In whole or in pan be copied photoco pied reproduced translated or reduced to any electronic medium or machine readable form without prior consent in writing from Infocom Inc Willful violations of the Copyright Law of the United Slates can result in civil damages of up to 50 000 in addition to actual damages puis criminal penalties of up to one year imprisonment and or 10 000 ine Leather Goddesses of Phobos and A Mind Forever Voyaging are trademarks of Infocom Inc Planetfall and Sorcerer are registered trademarks of Infocom Inc The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Ga
15. e the rest of your command since the event may have changed your situation drasti cally Some of Leather Goddesses of Phobos s complaints don t know the word you typed is not in the story s vocabulary Sometimes using a synonym or rephrasing will help If not Leather Goddesses of Phobos probably doesn t know the idea you were trying to get across You used the _______ in a way that don t understand Leather God desses of Phobos knows the word you typed but couldn t use it in that sense Usually this is because Leather G oddesses of Phobos knows the word as a diffe rent part of speech For example if you typed LOWER THE FLAG you are using LOWER as a verb but Leather Goddesses of Phobos might kn ow LOWER only as an adjective as in PRESS THE LOWER BUTTON There was no verb in that sentence Unless you are answering a question each sentence must have a verb or one of the special comm ands There seems to be a noun missing in that sentence This usually means your sentence was incomplete such as EAT THE BLUE or PUT THE BOOK IN THE 22 Instruction Manual There were too many nouns in that sentence An exam ple is PUT THE SOUP IN THE BOWL WITH THE LA DLE which has three noun phrases one more than Leather Goddesses of Phobos can digest in a single action Come again You pressed the RETURN or ENTER key without typing anything You can t see here The ob
16. ect yourself at the next prompt by typing OOPS and the correct word For example if you typed HAND THE CHAIN SAW TO GARNDMA and were told t know the word you could type OOPS GRANDMA rather than retyp ing the entire sentence QUIT This lets you stop If you want to save your position before quitting follow the instructions in the Starting and Stopping section on page 17 You can abbre viate QUIT to Q RESTART This stops the story and starts it over from the beginning RESTORE This restores a previously saved posi tion See Starting and Stopping on page 17 for more details SAVE This puts a snapshot of your current posi tion on your storage disk You can return to a saved position in the future using the RESTORE command See Starting and Stopping on page 17 for more details SCRIPT This command tells your printer to begin making a transcript of the story as you venture on wards A transcript may aid your memory but is not necessary It will work only on certain compu ters read your Reference Card for details SUGGESTIVE This gives you a moderately risqu version of Leather Goddesses of Phobos See The Three Levels of Naughtiness on page 13 STATUS This will give you a bunch of information your current mode of descriptiveness the level of adultness you re playing at your score a rankin based on your score and the numb er of turns you ve
17. en hunk of rock with nothing to it The horizon is deceptively close craggy circle around you in every direction Your rocket ship is floating a hundred feet above you 14 Instruction Manual gt WALK EAST Other Side of Asteroid Your short hike has taken you to the other side of the asteroid which is as ugly and barren as the first side A human is tied to a stake here Nearby a tribe of rock creatures ore foraging around for chunks of ice They obviously intend for this poor fellow to be frozen at the stake Not surprising considering how much rock creatures love a good te steak gt ASK THE HUMAN ABOUT THE ROCK CREATURES Thank the great red spot of Jupiter A fellow human Get me outta here those rock creatures turn me into a human popsicle There s some nice ice over here says one of the rock creatures in a typically gravelly voice gt EXAMINE THE PLASMA GRENADE The deadliest weapon this side of Pluto a plasma gre nade is activated by pulling the pin and throwing it as quickly as possible at the person or thing you intend to turn into very tiny sub atomic particles One of the rock creatures stumbles across some par ticularly frigid frozen methane and scrapes its stony claws together in delightful anticipation the molten pools of Mercury hurry up says the human at the stake gt PULL THE PIN The pin slides out smoothly The grenade throbs with unleashed
18. erything that was illegal Although still wanted in several states he is now married homeowner and spends most of his time doing the lawn Other works of interactive fiction by Steve Meretzky Sorcerer The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy with Douglas Adams A Mind Forever Voyaging Books by Steve Meretzky Zork The Forces of Krill Zork The Malifestro Quest Zork The Cavern of Doom Zork Conquest at Quendor SECTION II ABOUT INFOCOM S INTERACTIVE FICTION An Overview Interactive fiction is a story in which you are the main character Your own thinking and imagination deter mine the actions of that character and guide the story from start to finish Each work of interactive fiction such as Leather Goddesses of Phobos presents you with a series of locations sites characters and events You can move from place to place use the objects you find and interact with the other characters to affect the outcome of the story An important element of inter active fiction is puzzle solving You should think of a locked door or a ferocious beast not as a permanent obstacle but merely as a puzzle to be tackled Solv ing puzzles will frequently involve bringing a certain item with you and then using it in the proper way In Leather Goddesses of Phobos time passes only in response to your input with each input counting as one turn Nothing happens until you type a sen tence and press the RETURN or ENT
19. est little baby the spacelanes The controls simple and welllabelled The only exit is on the western side of the cabin You can see a calendar and a packing crate here The pocking crate contains a sonic blaster gt EXAMINE THE CONTROLS The controls consist of three buttons a gray button marked Lunar Base red button labelled mede City and a brown button that reads Aste roid Where You Just Killed the Rock Creatures gt TAKE THE SONIC BLASTER Taken gt INVENTORY You are carrying a sonic blaster a grenade pin a pink feather duster and a radium powered radio gt TURN ON THE RADIO The radio hums to life You tune in to your usual channel currently filled with innocuous deep space chatter Sud denly a message blasts through louder than the rest the daughter of Ganymede s King Menthos has kidnapped the dreaded space pirates of Deimos The King is offering a reward of one million ganymids for her safe return princess yells Umberto stunned We engaged be married this very month Help me rescue her and you may claim the entire reward gt PUSH THE BUTTON Which button do you mean the gray button the red button or the brown button gt RED A plume of fire spews from the tail of the rocket You lean forward to maintain your balance gt WAIT Time passes Ganymede appears through the viewport as a tiny
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21. ject you re ferred to was not accessible It may be somewhere else for instance or present but in a closed container The other object s that you mentioned isn t Joren d here You referred to one or more objects in the same sentence some of which aren t present or accessible You can t use multiple in direct objects with e You can use multiple objects that is nouns or noun phrases separated by AND or a comma or the word ALL only with certain verbs Among the more useful of these verbs are TAKE DROP and PUT An exam ple of a verb that will not work with multiple objects is EXAMINE you couldn t say EXAMINE ALL or EX AMINE THE BOWL AND THE SWORD You can t go that way There is no passage or exit in the direction you want to move That sentence isn t one recognize The sentence you typed may have been gibberish such as TAKE ROPE WITH READ Or you may have typed a reasonable sentence but used a syntax that Leather Goddesses of Phobos does not recognize such as REACH UNDER THE GARMENT Try rephrasing the sentence We re Never Satisfied Here at Infocom we take great pride in the quality of our stories spending months on the tiniest detail Even after the disks are out the door we keep improving honing and perfecting Your input is important Despite a load of testing some bugs lie dormant until thousands of you begin brutally assaulting the program in your various inimitable fashions I
22. laxy is a trademark of Douglas Adams 1986 Infocom Inc Printed in U S A Instruction Manual 23 Quick Reference Guide 1 To start the story boot up see the separate Reference Card in your Leather Goddesses of Phobos package 2 When you see the prompt gt on your screen Leather Goddesses of Phobos is waiting for your input There are four kinds of sentences or commands that Leather Goddesses of Phobos understands A Direction commands To move from place to place just type the direction you want to go NORTH SOUTH EAST WEST NORTHEAST NORTHWEST SOUTHEAST SOUTHWEST UP DOWN IN or OUT B Actions Just type whatever you want to do Some examples READ THE BOOK or OPEN THE DOOR or LOOK THROUGH THE WINDOW or GIVE THE BALL TO THE CAT Once you re familiar with simple commands try the more complex ones described in Communicating with Infocom s Interactive Fiction on page 18 C Commands given to other characters To talk to characters in the story type their name then a comma then what you want to say to them For example FRED TELL ME ABOUT THE STORM or OLD MAN FOLLOW ME D Special commands Some commands such as INVENTORY or DIAGNOSE give you specific information or affect your output A list of these appears in the Special Commands section on page 20 24 Instruction Manual 3 After typing your sentence or command you must press the RETURN or ENTER key before Leather G
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24. nds many different kinds of sentences Here are several exam ples Note that some of these objects do not actu ally appear in Leather Goddesses of Phobos gt WALK TO THE NORTH gt GO DOWN gt gt THE WHIP gt READ THE MANUAL gt LIEDOWN ON THE BED gt EXAMINE THE LARGE PULSATING POD gt UNLOCK THE SPIKED HANDCUFFS gt PUT THE HANDCUFFS ON THE STRANGER gt SMEAR THE PEANUT BUTTER ON MY STOMACH gt PUSH THE BLACK BUTTON gt SHOOT THE VIBRATING RAY GUN AT THE HYPER VENTILATING ALIEN gt INJECT MY SISTER WITH THE APHRODISIAC gt CLIMB THE FENCE gt LOOK AT THE UNDULATING TENTACLES THROUGH THE ELECTRON MICROSCOPE 18 Instruction Manual You can use multiple objects with certain verbs if you separate them by the word AND or by a comma Some examples gt TAKE MELON AND WHIP gt DROP THE SPIKED HANDCUFFS THE CLEAR JELLY AND THE AXE gt PUT THE MALE RABBIT AND THE FEMALE RABBIT IN THE CAGE You can include several sentences on one input line if you separate them by the word THEN or by a period Note that each sentence will still count as a turn You don t need a period at the end of the input line For example you could type all of the following at once before pressing the RETURN or ENTER key gt PICK UP THE APPLIANCE GO EAST THEN CLIMB IN THE HOT TUB KISS PAT IN OUT IN OUT If Leather Goddesses of Phobos doesn t understand one of the sentences on your input line
25. o the Story 1936 In the United States a new miracle fabric called nylon was becoming popular Alf Landon was running for President Victor Hess had won the No bel Prize for Physics for discovering cosmic radia tion Gone With the Wind was the best selling novel and steak cost twenty five cents a pound Else where black track star Jesse Owens was embarrass ing Adolph Hitler by winning four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics Edward the VIII of England was abdicating his throne to marry a commoner the Spanish Civil War was beginning to heat up and the Leather Goddesses of Phobos were preparing to invade the Earth and turn it into their private plea sure world Don t let anyone tell you that nothing ever hap pens in Upper Sandusky Ohio because on this day in 1936 you re snatched out of your favorite bar kidnapped by minions of the evil Leather Goddesses You a re brought back to Phobos as an experimental subject as preparations continue to enslave every man and woman on Earth If you succeed in escaping the clutches of the Leather Goddesses you will begin an odyssey the likes of which you have never even imagined except perhaps in certain very enjoyable dreams With your loyal friend and fellow Earthmate at your side you will begin a naughty bawdy rowdy rousing and very very amusing romp across the solar system Your mission should you be able to catch your breath long enough to think about it is to collect the
26. oddesses of Phobos will respond 4 On most computers your screen will display a special line called the status line It tells you the name of your current location your score and the number of turns you have taken so far in the story 5 You ick up and carry many of the items you ll find in the story For example if you type TAKE THE TUBE OF JELLY you will be carrying it Type INVEN TORY to see a list of the items you are carrying 6 When you want to stop save your place for later or start over read the Starting and Stopping sec tion on page 17 7 If you have trouble refer to the specific section of the manual for more detailed instructions
27. on and the objects present This is how Leather Goddesses of Phobos will normally act unless you tell it otherwise using the VERBOSE or SUPERBRIEF commands The SUPERBRIEF command tells Leather Goddesses of Phobos to display only the name of a place you have entered even if you have never been there before In this mode Leather God desses of Phobos will not even mention which ob jects are present Of course you can always get a descrip tion of your location and the items there by typing LOOK In SUPERBRIEF mode the blank line between turns will be eliminated This mode is meant for play ers who are already very familiar with the geography The VERBOSE command tells Leather Goddesses of Phobos that you want a complete description of each location and the objects in it every time you enter a location even if you ve been there before DIAGNOSE Leather Goddesses of Phobos will give you a medical re port of your physical condition INVENTORY Leather Goddesses of Phobos will list what you are carry ing You can abbrev iate INVEN TORY to l LEWD This gives you the most risqu version of Leather Goddesses of Phobos See The Three Lev els of Naughtiness on page 13 LOOK This tells Leather Goddesses of Phobos to describe your location in full detail You can abbrevi ate LOOK to L 20 Instruction Manual OOPS If you accidentally mistype a word such that Leather Goddesses of Phobos doesn t understand it you can corr
28. or if some thing unusual happens it will ignore the rest of your input line see Common Complaints on page 22 The words IT and ALL can be very useful For example gt FEEL THE LEATHER VEST TAKE IT PUT IT ON gt CLOSE THE HEAVY METAL DOOR LOCK IT gt TAKE THE BOTTLE OF PILLS CLOSE IT PUT IT IN THE DRAWER gt TAKE ALL gt TAKE ALL THE NAUGHTY PHOTOS gt DROP ALL BUT THE PIPE AND THE STICK OF INCENSE gt TAKE ALL FROM THE MEDICINE CHEST gt PUT ALL IN THE LARGE ORIFICE gt GIVE ALL BUT THE PANTYHOSE TO THE ARREST ING OFFICER The word ALL refers to every visible object except those inside something else If there were an apple on the ground and an orange inside a cabinet TAKE ALL would take the apple but not the orange There are three kinds of questions that Leather Goddesses of Phobos understands WHO 15 some one WHERE IS something and WHAT IS thing For example gt WHO IS TIFFANY gt WHERE 15 THE RUBBER HOSE gt WHAT IS VENUSIAN SLIME BEAST You will meet other people and creatures in Leather Goddesses of Phobos You can talk to these beings by typing their name then a comma then whatever you want to say to them Here are some examples gt BUTCH HELLO gt UNCLE SMEDLEY WHERE ARE MY PAJAMAS gt MASSEUSE GIVE ME A MASSAGE gt DOCTOR JECKYLL PUT DOWN THAT NEEDLE gt IRV OPEN THE CLOSET DOOR TAKE A SHIRT gt MENACING ALIEN PICK UP THE MENACIN
29. power Isn t this enough growls the youngest rock creature gt THROW THE GRENADE AT THE ROCK CREATURES Boom The is filled with a fine dust that one usually associates with vaporized rock creatures Good show By the way am Umberto from Ganymede pledge that shall someday repay this debt Now untie me will ya gt UNTIE UMBERTO You release Umberto from the stake gt UMBERTO FOLLOW ME You bet gt NORTH On An Asteroid Your rocket ship is floating a hundred feet above you Umberto follows faithfully gt SOUTHWEST Other Side of Asteroid Umberto is right behind you every step of the way gt AGAIN On An Asteroid Your rocket ship is floating a hundred feet above you Like a loyal friend Umberto stays at your side gt JUMP UP This asteroid has almost no gravity and you jump up wards with ease In Space Umberto arrives a second later gt ENTER THE ROCKET SHIP Your Spaceship You can see a calendar and a packing crate here Nice ship says Umberto obviously knows nice ship when he sees one gt READ THE CALENDAR OPEN THE PACKING CRATE 5 the Miss Solar System Calendar for 2036 currently open to February February features Miss Ganymede a stunning redhead in a see through spacesuit Her seduc tive pose leaves you aching Opening the packing crate reveals a sonic blaster gt LOOK Your Spaceship This sleek rocket built by Uranus Metalworks is the fleet
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31. urally most people find the LEWD level the most fun You can roughly equate these three levels with the G PG and R movie rat ings The story will always begin in the SUGGESTIVE level The STATUS command will tell you your current naughtiness level Instruction Manual 13 Sample Transcript and Map This transcript is not from Leather Goddesses of Pho bos but it does show many of the typical commands you might use in the story It contains some simple puzzles and their solutions and it will give you a good idea of how Infocom s interactive fiction works The player s commands appear in capital letters after each prompt gt The map represents the terrain in the sample transcript as you might have drawn it NOTE In this sample transcript you play a male character In Leather Goddesses of Phobos you can be either a male or a female character ASTEROID BELT GANYMEDE IN 1 your our Your sace E ae wne onic BL Aste Zh 0 8 ANY aN DIRECTION a VV Pack oF d THIEVES ee Miss GANYMEDE Uwe EDRoom ZINC PLATED GYRO OPE ASTEROID CREATURES E as In Space You are floating in outer space just west of your spaceship A tiny asteroid lies below you gt INVENTORY You have a plasma grenade a pink feather duster and a radium powered radio gt GO DOWN On An Asteroid This is a godforsak
32. uts a snapshot of your place in the story onto another disk You should also save your place before or after trying something dangerous or tricky That way even if you get lost or killed in the story you can return to your saved position To save your place in the story type SAVE at the prompt gt and then press the RETURN or ENTER key Then follow the instructions for saving and re storing on your Reference Card Some computers require a blank disk initialized and formatted for saves Using a disk with data on it not counting other Leather Goddesses of Phobos saves may result in the loss of that data depending on your computer You can save your position as often as you like by using addittional blank disks You can restore a saved position any time you want To do so type RESTORE at the prompt gt and press the RETURN or ENTER key Then follow the instructions on your Reference Card You can then continue the story from the point where you used the SAVE command You can type LOOK for a description of where you are Quitting and restarting If you want to start over from the beginning type RESTART and press the RETURN or ENTER key This is usually faster than re booting Just to make sure Leather Goddesses of Phobos will ask if you really want to start over If you do type Y or YES and press the RETURN or ENTER key If you want to stop entirely type QUIT and press the RETURN or ENTER key Once
33. zle in order to obtain the item s or informa tion you need to solve another puzzle 8 You may find it helpful to go through Leather God desses of Phobos with another person Different peo ple may find different puzzles easy and can often complement each ot her 9 If you really have difficulty you can order a hint booklet and a complete map using the order form in your package You don t need this booklet to enjoy the story but it will make solving the puzzles easier 10 Read the sample transcript on page 14 to get a feel for how Infocom s interactive fiction works 11 You can word a command in many different ways For example if you were tired or wanted to between the sheets for some other reason you could type in any of the following gt GET IN BED gt GET ONTO THE BED gt LIE DOWN ON THE BED If you type in a command that Leather Goddesses of Phobos doesn t understand try rephrasing the com mand or using synonyms If Leather Goddesses of Phobos still doesn t understand your command you are almost certainly trying something that is not important in continuing your adventure Instruction Manual 21 Common Complaints Leather Goddesses of Phobos will complain if you type a command t hat confuses it completely Leather God desses of Phobos will then ignore the rest of the input line Certain events such as being attacked or walk ing into a wall may also cause Leather Goddesses of Phobos to ignor
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