“The Enterprise Incidents: a Middle School Fantasy,” is a story about middle school kids and teachers. Its puzzles are fairly easy, though its reading level can be challenging at times. “The Enterprise Incidents” was written by Brendan Desilets, who maintains this Web site, with lots of help from beta testers Sophie Fruehling, Jeff Nassiff, Matt Carey, and Sean Desilets. Hints and a walkthrough are available within the story.
You can download the Inform story file for “The Enterprise Incidents” using this link. For more information on using a story file, read the “Obtaining Interactive Fiction” page on this Web site.
Or, if you prefer, you can probably read “The Enterprise Incidents” on line, using this link. To save your progress, type “save” and then bookmark the resulting Web page.
Another version of “The Enterprise Incidents” includes some on-screen maps and other graphical elements. You can download the story file for this version, using this link. This variation of the story uses an IF-creation tool called Glulx and requires an interpreter that is different from the ones used with other stories featured on this website.
I recommend the interpreter called Gargoyle. It’s available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, and its free of charge at http://ccxvii.net/gargoyle/ . Hints for the Glulx version of the story appear at http://if1.home.comcast.net/~if1/hints.html.
The pictures and maps that appear below may add to your enjoyment of the story, if you are reading the Inform version. These graphics appear in the Glulx version.
The mural in the cafeteria, where the story begins
A candy gram card
A decorated locker
A math cake from Ms. Garrulous’ class
The cover of Ed Dibbles’ science folder
Meghan Mascaras’ science folder
A poster from outside the office. Fishing is cancelled because of Mr. Pisces’ need for a bone marrow transplant.
An art project by Silas Gibber
Jim Hastely’s riddle poem
A Map of the North-South Hall
Walkthrough
This is a walkthrough of The Enterprise Incidents: A Middle School Fantasy by Brendan Desilets, Release 2. Like many of its fellows, this walkthrough does not explore many of the avenues that make the story enjoyable. The player’s inputs are preceded with the > symbol. At times, in the course of the story, characters will initiate conversations. These are good occasions for chatting with the characters in question, but the walkthrough often does not specify which conversational choices are best.
>open door
>talk to alltext
>3
>g
>3
>g
>1
>1
>talk to queenie
>1
>g
>1
>g
>1
>look at mural
>look at queenie
>4
>n
>take list
>take envelope
>read list
>s
>close door
>w
>n
>e
>give gram to meghan
>w
>s
>s
>e
>w
>s
>talk to Stephanie
>1
>g
>2
>look at Stephanie
>put gram in basket
(Queenie will initiate some conversation here.)
>open door
>w
>give gram to Danielle
>say -120 to garrulous
>e
>n
>n
>n
>n
>wear badge
>open door
>knock on door
>talk to empirious
>1
>w
>take jar
>give gram to ed
>e
>nw
>talk to woman
>1
>w
>w
>e
>n
>talk to reunite
>1
>g
>3
>s
>w
>w
>s
>give gram to Alicia
>give gram to andrea
(Queenie will invite a conversation here.)
>n
>e
>n
>say rat to Picasso
>give gram to silas
>s
>e
>n
>give pass to reunite
>s
>se
>s
>s
>w
>1
>give gram to jim
>say firefly to jim
>look at list
>talk to alltext
>2
>e
>give gram to queenie
>4
>e
>open door
>n
