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1. The Manual 111905 NOTICE ELECTRONIC ARTS RESERVES THE RIGHT TO MAKE IMPROVE MENTS IN THE PRODUCT DESCRIBED IN THIS MANUAL AT ANY TIME AND WITHOUT NOTICE THIS MANUAL IS COPYRIGHTED ALL RIGHTS ARE RESERVED NO PART OF THIS MANUAL MAY BE COPIED REPRODUCED TRANS LATED OR REDUCED TO ANY ELECTRONIC MEDIUM OR MACHINE READABLE FORM WITHOUT THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF ELECTRONIC ARTS 1820 GATEWAY DRIVE SAN MATEO CALIFORNIA 94404 ELECTRONIC ARTS MAKES NO WARRANTIES EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WITH RESPECT TO THIS MANUAL OR WITH RESPECT TO THE SOFTWARE DESCRIBED IN THIS MANUAL ITS QUALITY PERFORMANCE MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PAR TICULAR PURPOSE THE PROGRAMS ARE PROVIDED AS IS ELECTRONIC ARTS MAKES CERTAIN LIMITED WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO DEFECTIVE RECORDING MEDIA PLEASE SEE THE ELECTRONIC ARTS LIMITED WARRANTY ENCLOSED WITH THIS PRODUCT SOFTWARE 1984 1985 1986 THOMAS M DISCH and COGNETICS CORPORATION STORY 1984 1985 1986 THOMAS M DISCH MANUAL BY NICHOLAS LAVROFF 1986 ELECTRONIC ARTS Prologue Amnesia The Game Amnesia The Program Additional Features Hints Prologue You are dreaming You are dreaming that you have been asleep and that you wake up to find yourself in a strange hotel The only light in the room comes from the hotel s gigantic neon light that glows a baleful red outside the window X a voice whispers in the crimson twilight X are you there2. You know that you are X and that you must answer the voice truthfully but your mouth is dry your tongue paralyzed with fear Come here X the voice insists Come here to me in the mirror Go to the mirror and look into it You go to the mirror The figure in the mirror leans forward to peer at you intently He is dressed all in white like a bridegroom or a ghost And though he has no face only eyes that stare anxiously from the smooth ovoid of his head he smiles recognizing you Excellent he whispers Now come with me before the store closes In the mirror you see him turn away from you and walk toward the door of the room where he pauses to look back at you and to beckon with his raised hand for you to follow Run away You tell yourself to do so but something prevents you Your acts seem not to be your own The voice repeats its command Come here X Come here to me in the mirror Enter the mirror then follow the voice As you enter the mirror the beckoning figure vanishes You follow him out of the room and catch another glimpse of him at the far end of the corridor You run toward him and reach his side just as the subway train is pulling into the station The door opens with a shudder Come says the faceless figure putting his arm around your shoulder You mustn t be late your first day at work You cannot resist his greater strength even if you wished to You enter the empty subway car Quickly Yo
3. You nod He points his bony finger toward the purring eliding steps It s right there Sir he informs you Go up the escalator You take the escalator to the sixth floor where Oldman s Hair Styling Saloon is situated Hello says the chief hair stylist an elderly man with a waxed mustache like Salvador Dali s I see we have our work cut out for us today Sit down please He gestures toward a low chair next to the shampooing sink You shake your head You don t want a shampoo The hair stylist insists Sit down please he says Go up the escalator The hairstylist s bony hand presses you into the chair before you can escape This won t take more than five or six hours he assures you We simply have to remove all these facial growths and seal these unsightly pores with sealing wax and then fill in these repulsive cavities My what large nostrils you have But with your nose removed they won t be a problem any longer Then we ll take care of your eyes with some industrial strength eye cover The better stores these days prefer mannequins with perfectly blank faces Eyes are out didn t you know that While the old hair stylist chatters away his clippers and trimmers and gougers and sanders and sealers clip and trim and sand and seal until just as he promised you are completely remodeled in the new blank style Now isn t that a lot better the old man says holding up a mirror for you to see your now much more geometrica
4. CAN CALL THE NUMBERS A B C D E Wherexinxthexhotelxwouldxpeoplexleavextheirxclothesxandxpersonalxitemsxl yingx aroundxbesidextheirxrooms x Thexhotelxbrochurexmayxhelp Tryxgoingxupstairsx Goxtoxthexhealthxclubxonxthexpenthousexlevelx Lookxinxthexlockersxinxthexguys xlockerxroomx Hidexinxthexsaunax 3 HOW CAN I GET OUT OF THE TEXAS JAIL OR AT LEAST GET FOOD WHILE I M IN THERE A Toxgetxfoodx xaskxveryxpolitelyxandxrespectfullyx B Toxgetxfoodx xsayx xPlease xsir C Whenxsomeonextellsxyouxsomethingx xdon txalwaysxbelievexthem D Don txgivexupx xKeepxtryingxnewxthingsx xTherexisxaxwayxout M MM M M HE a E M 4 IF I M GOING TO BE EXECUTED WHAT CAN I DO A Tryxdoingxthingsxdifferently B Youxcan txavoidxbeingxexecutedx xbutxlivingx orxdying xthroughxthisxexistencexcanxgivexyouxvaluablexcluesxtoxthexmystery 5 HOW CAN I GET OUT OF PURGATORY A TryxgivingxCharonxdifferentxnamesxyou vexheardxyourselfxcalled B Keepxtryingxandxyou llxeventuallyxgetxout 6 HOW CAN I KEEP FROM BEING SHOT BY THE STRANGE MAN A Whenxhexasksxyouxtoxbexsomeplacexfast xhexmeansxitx B Whenxhexasksxyouxtoxcomexdownstairs x youxneedxtoxgetxgoing xfastx C Afterxhexcallsxyoux xbexsurexyouxputxonxthextuxx xOncexyouxputxonxthe xtuxedox xtypex Leave D Whenxhextellsxyouxtoxgoxupstairsxtoxthexchapel xtypex Up 7 WHAT SHOULD I DO IN THE CHAPEL A Dont wastextooxmuchxtimexherex B xlfxnothingxisxh
5. and press R at the same time Amnesia will respond by repeating the previous command This feature is particularly useful when you are exploring the city since you may wish to use the same command e g Go north and look several times in succession Loading and Saving Games No one expects you to finish Amnesia in one sitting just as no one would expect you to read War and Peace all at once When you feel you have had enough adventure for the time being you can save the game and resume play later To save a game type Save Game Amnesia will prompt you to remove the game disk and insert a data disk in the drive Amnesia takes a snapshot of the game at that point so that you can resume play exactly where you left off Caution make sure that the disk you use to store your game does not contain any data of value as Amnesia will initialize it and overwrite whatever was there before You can save your game as often as you wish and you can save a number of separate games on each data disk Each game will be saved in one of a number of areas on the disk numbered appropriately enough 1 2 3 etc You will be given the opportunity to specify which area to save the current game Note that if you specify an area that is already occupied Amnesia will overwrite it with the current game Incidentally it is a good idea to save your game whenever you are faced with a tough decision That way if you take the wrong turn and end up in a mess you get an
6. notice My full she continues is Hugette Wadju Paiffer with a hyphen You have a very attractive head Do you mind if I try it on Taking your silence as permission Hugette takes a good grip on your head and slowly unscrews it from your neck Then she gives it to you to hold while she tries to unscrew her own head Oh dear she complains It s stuck Help me won t you You set your head down on the counter behind you and take a firm grip on Hugette s head and try to twist it loose but it s stuck to her neck as neatly as the cap on a jar of pickles Stop she shrieks You stop twisting and then realize she did not mean for you to stop She was yelling at another mannequin who has taken your head from the counter while your back was turned and is now running away with it up the escalator Chase the mannequin and get my head You run up the escalator s moving steps to the ninth floor and arrive on the sales floor just in time to see the mannequin with your head under his arm taking the steps of an adjoining upbound escalator two at a time A burglar alarm begins to shriek An aged security officer takes hold of your wrist and demands to know where the fire is The only answer you can give voiceless as you are 15 to point to the escalator where the thieving mannequin bears away with your head in triumph Tm sorry young man says the officer But we can t have people going about the store without their heads or th
7. particular situation such as a reference to a television set in a taxi for example Here are some examples of the kinds of commands Amnesia will recognize Leave Enter room Look around Pick up the sheet Turn down the television Put the token in the turnstile Take the towel off the dresser Pick up the Bible and put the towel on the bed Open the dresser and take out the Bible then close the dresser and look at the room key The last example shows that it is possible to string commands together to produce more complex commands Note that amp and and then are all synonyms Here are some ways you can address people you meet in the game Mary what about Joe Mary who is John Luke where is Central Park Ask Beth about Joe Beth tell me about our relationship Ask Joanne about Central Park Tell Joe about amnesia Ask Beth about the New York Historical Society and so on Note that you don t need to use say or put your speech within quotation marks Just type in what you want to Say Amnesia s vocabulary is the largest ever used in a text adventure game With a vocabulary of more than 1700 words Amnesia can recognize most commands without those frustrating I don t know the meaning of messages The following is a list of the more important verbs that Amnesia recognizes It s a good idea to keep this list handy when you first start playing so that you can be sure of using the right words Some of these words
8. appening xjustxleavex C Ifxyouxansweredxaxquestionxonexwayxandxitxdidn txworkxoutx xanswerx thexquestionxaxdifferentxwayx m 8 HOW CAN I FIND A PLACE TO SLEEP IN THE CITY Lookxforxthexkindxofxneighborhoodxwherexsomebodyxsleeping xinxanxalleyx xorxdoorwayxwon txbexnoticedx Itxthexgamextellsxyouxthexneighborhoodxdoesn txhavexgoodxplacesxtoxsleepx xforxthexnightx xbelievexit Lookxforxanxabandonedxtenement xxNotexexitsxlocationxcarefully Walkxtox 10thStreetxbetweenx W x40thx AvenuexandxWx50thxAvenuex xThere xorxonxthexway xyou llxfindxthextenement Ifxyouxsawxthextenementxandxdidn txstop xretracexyourstepsxuntilxyouxfindxit 9 HOW CANI GET MONEY A B Begx xYou rexnotxtooxproud xarexyou Whenxyou rexofferedxaxragxandxliquidxtoxwashxwindowsxacceptxthexofferx xTryxitxaroundxthexmouthxofxthexHollandxTunnel Whenxyou rexofferedxaxchancexatxusingxyourxartisticxtalents xtakexitx xThexpersonxwillxgivexyouxgoodxadvicexonxwhatxtoxdoxnext Tryxgoingxsomeplacexxyouxleamxaboutxbyxcallingxthexnumbersxinxyourx xphonexbookx xSomexofxthemxwillxgetxyouxsomexcashx 10 HOW CAN IGET SOMETHING IMPORTANT AT THE HOTEL Thinkx wherexdoxpeoplexleavexvaluablesxatx axhoteIx Thexbrochurexmayxhelp Askxthexfrontxdeskxclerkxforxhelpx xSeexhimxinxperson AM MM M M M meme met a M I ET 11 HOW CAN I FIND THE PASSWORD Listenxtoxthexh
9. eir shoes That s the rule here at Oldman s You ll have to come along with me ei e E ent Break away from the guard then chase the mannequin and get my head You break free from his grip and you run up the escalator to the tenth floor which is given over to Oldman s Shipping Department None of the department s staff is anywhere in sight You are standing in the midst of hundreds of boxes of all shapes and sizes each stamped with Oldman s ornate monogram Faintly from one of those boxes you can hear your head calling to you Help Your voice grows weaker and your own strength is ebbing rapidly Open a box and look inside it You open the box nearest at hand It contains a ceramic vase jade green with dark specklings It won t do for a head Open a box and look inside it You open another box It contains a basket imported from Thailand Its just about the right size for carrying your head once you find it but that s not much consolation Open a box and look inside it You open a third box It contains a large Gouda cheese from the Gourmet Grocery Department Listen for my voice then follow my voice then open the box and look inside it You follow the sounds of your voice and open another box which seems too small to contain your head But there it is still alive and breathing Its eyes look up to you gratefully Its lips smile Then to your horror you realize your mistake this isn t your head It s an identical head that s bee
10. inally should you find yourself at an impasse in the game feel free to consult the hint section at the end of the manual There you will find hints suitably encrypted to avoid inadvertant discovery ranging from Not Much Help to Dead Giveaways for some of Amnesia s more difficult puzzles Life should be so easy i Amnesia The Program You play Amnesia by typing instructions on the keyboard telling the program where you would like to go and what you would like to say and do The program will respond accordingly As you proceed through the game you will learn more about yourself the main character as well as about New York and its inhabitants Amnesia was programmed with a natural language parser a routine that can understand groups of words and make appropriate responses The program actually contains two parsers one operates when you are asked questions by the characters you meet in the game and the other when you are exploring geogaphical locations and interacting with people and objects you meet there In either case Amnesia expects your commands to follow certain grammatical rules If the parser cannot decipher a command you will receive a message to that effect asking you to Please reword that or to Try to word that differently If you use a word that is not in Amnesia s vocabulary the game will respond with I don t know the word In addition Amnesia will not recognize a word if it is not appropriate to a
11. intxaboutxthexpasswordxtoxyourxvaultxboxxthatxappearsx xwhenxyouxgetxthexwrongxpassword xdidxyouxreadxthexbiblexinxyourxhotelxroom x xYou llxneedxtox Axrealxbiblexwillxwork xtoox xReadxJohnx1x Tryxgoingxtoxthexaddressxonxthexmatchbookxinxthexsatchelx ThexpasswordxisxWithxGodx 12 HOW CAN ISTART TO SOLVE THE MYSERY ONCET VE LEFT THE HOTEL y A m Callxallxthexnumbersxinxthexaddressxbook xthexgamexwillxtellxyouxwhenx xyouxpassxaxphonebooth xWritexdownxthexaddressesxandxvisitxeachxonex xandxalmostxallxthexhintsxbelowxwillxbexunnecessary Bexsurextoxvisitxthexstorexthatxrentedxthexcomputerxinx yourxhotelxroom It sxthexUserxFriendlyxComputerxStorexatxS6thxandxMadison TryxvisitingxTinyxTykesxTalentxTown TryxvisitingxthexNewxY orkxHistoricalxSocietyxbetweenxnoonxandx2 00xP M Havexyouxrunxintoxanxartistxyet x xWhenxyouxdo xtakexhimxupxonxhisxofferx xandxfollowxhisxadvice Tradexclothesxwithxthexartist xthenxgoxtox WashingtonxSquarexParkx xandxdrawxportraitsx x Youxhavextoxdoxthisxtoxfinishxthexgame Checkxatxthexhotelxdeskxforxsomething ximportantxyouxleftxthere Takexthexdiskxtoxthexcomputerxstore een J WhenxBettexcallsxyouxandxgivesxyouxaxclue xfollowxupxonxit K xBexpatient xxBettexwillxgivexyouxaxphonexnumberxtoxcall L CallxDenisexatxfivexfivexfivexfivexfourxonexthree M FollowxDenise sxinstructions 13 WHAT ARE THE ANSWERS TO THE RIDDLES RIDDLE 1 A Don txfiddlexaroundxorxtwiddlexyourxthu
12. ir he asks wistfully How much are they We have many kinds Sir and every one has its price This He holds a knife with an 8 inch stainless steel blade to your throat is our very best all purpose carving knife And this The carving knife drops from his hand and he takes another smaller knife from the counter This is a superb knife for boning chicken He lunges at your arm with the knife which makes a long gash in the sleeve of your white coat but does no more significant harm Run away and go up the escalator You take the escalator to the fourth floor where the management of Oldman s announces on a large poster that it is proud to be selling in cooperation with the Sistine Chapel a collection of priceless fine art reproductions including a gigantic full color reproduction of the Hand of God from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel The Hand of God is pointing to the UP escalator Go down the escalator There doesn t appear to be a down escalator Go up the escalator You take the escalator to the fifth floor which seems to be an empty warehouse Luxuriant growths of cobwebs festoon the light fixtures Unmarked boxes and bundles are piled everywhere The disembodied arm of a mannequin lies in the dust its finger pointing with modest insistence to the UP escalator Search the room and look in the boxes You begin searching but a cadaverous security guard approaches you and asks if you are looking for the escalator
13. l face Tm sure the Personnel Department will hire you right off the bat and assign you to work in one of the front windows Well have a nice day And he points you toward the UP escalator Go up the escalator You take the escalator up to the seventh floor where an elderly salesman insists on giving you a demonstration of an Apple computer The salesman shows you how easy it is to boot a disk You see how easy it is to use a computer And when you ve finished just remove the disk from the disk drive like so But instead of removing the computer s disk his fingers open a flap in your right side just beneath your liver and remove your software The program stays in ROM that is Read only Memory until yot throw the switch Do you want to buy it No I don t The salesman glares at you in such a ferocious manner that you fear for your life He reaches behind your neck for the switch that will turn you off Run away and go up the escalator You take the escalator up the the eighth floor which seems to be an assembly area for the store mannequins Some stand in front of full length mirrors trying on and taking off different styles and positions of limbs Hello says one particularly attractive blonde jutting her hip to the side in a traditional posture of greeting My name s Hugette what s yours You try to answer her question but you appear to have lost the use of your voice Hugette seems not to
14. mbs B Tisxaxwisexriddlexthatxknowsxwhatxit sxcalled C Axrnddlexisxthexanswer RIDDLE 2 A Riddlesxpunctuatexanxadventure xdon txthey B Butxwhatxpunctuatesxriddles C QuestionxMarkxisxthexanswerx RIDDLE 3 A It sxnotxaxhairyxproblem B Asxmenxgrowxolder xsomexfindxthisxrightxoffxthextopxofxtheirxheads C Baldnessxisxthexanswer RIDDLE 4 A Thisxonexwillxhavexyouxinxtears B Thinkxlikexaxvegetable xnotxlikexaxperson C Onionxisxthexanswer RIDDLE 5 A Wexwon ttell B Wexowon txtell C OKx xThexanswerxis x Axshotxringsxout xthexhintxfallsxtoxthexfloor xdead ELECTRONIC ARTS Electronic Arts 1820 Gateway Drive San Mareo CA 94404
15. n substituted for yours This head belongs to to His name is on the tip of your tongue But of course without a head you are also without a tongue You wake gasping for breath and instantly the nightmare fades from your memory Amnesia The Game Amnesia is a hybrid a cross between a novel and a game It is a novel because it has characters and a plot and follows the traditional structure of a modern work of fiction introduction plot development climax and denouement Unlike traditional novels however Amnesia develops its story by using your input so that the order of events is under your control not the novelist s Thus if you feel that you should find something to eat before you ride the subway then you can do so by using the appropriate commands Bear in mind however that choosing one course of action over another can throw you into a whole new storyline or into a series of dead ends only some of which might offer the possibility of escape In this way Amnesia is more like a game and a little like life since solving the mystery requires a combination of skill good fortune and perseverance To start playing Amnesia simply follow the instructions on the card called Command Summary that came with your package For more on Amnesia as a computer program including information on the game s vocabulary and the parser and about saving and loading games see the following pages of this manual Amnesia The Program F
16. other chance to make the right decision by restarting the game from that point To load a game you have saved reboot the game and answer Yes to the Load a saved game prompt You will have an opportunity to load a saved game each time you boot the disk Using the Printer If you have printer connected to your computer and you would like to have a printout of the game as you play type Turn Printer On at any point in the game Amnesia will respond by printing everything that appears on the screen Note that if your printer is off line when you give this command the game will freeze until you press your printer s on line button You can turn the printer off at any time by typing Turn Printer Off Hints The hints you will find below are of two kinds General and Specific The general hints will provide you with common sense clues for getting through the game You can read them without fear that they will give the game away The specific hints on the other hand should be approached with caution since you may find yourself reading too much and getting the whole answer when all you needed was a prod in the right direction For this reason we have encrypted them by inserting an x in between each word making them a little more difficult to read Each question in the specific hints has more than one answer The early answers are mere prods while the later answers are giveaways Let your judgment and your conscience be y
17. our guide Beyond that you re on your own GENERAL HINTS Save Game periodically cycling through the storage areas on a disk That way if you take a wrong turu and are killed you won t have to go back too far Be off the streets by midnight to wander aimlessly later is to become a grim statistic of New York street life Hoard money carefully it s hard to come by and you ll need it to eat Take notes on anything that might be a clue Eat regularly the same way you would in real life Make sure you get sleep at night If the game warns you of hunger or tiredness take heed The address book included in the package has invaluable numbers but you can t call them until you ve found the address book in the game Sometimes characters will give you a chance to ask them questions try to keep a list of things you want to know about Sample questions are Ask John about Mary Mary tell me about John John who is Mary Mary what is amnesia If you re trying for the highest possible score be prepared to stay in Manhattan for quite a while There are lots of things you can do in the game which earn you points but which are not necessary for solving the mystery o a S I M aa SPECIFIC HINTS 1 HOW CAN IFIND SOME CLOTHES C Tryxaxtogaxparty x Maybex youxcanxwrapxyourselfxupxinxsomethingx Typex Getxsheetxandxwearxitx 2 WHERE CAN I FIND THE ADDRESS BOOK SO I
18. ur companion hands you a spray can of black enamel Before the police come and arrest you Write a grafitto Quickly You aim your can at the one window of the subway car that is not already a palimpsest of disposable identities Then you press the nozzle and write Who am I The subway screeches to a stop at 34th Street where you are able to enter Oldman s Department Store directly from the subway platform TIl have to leave you here your companion tells you but the Personnel Office 15 on the 11th floor And there His featureless head nods toward the purring escalator at the center of the deserted sales floor is the escalator See you later X Enter the department store then go up the escalator and look at the store You take the escalator up to the main sales floor which smells rather cloyingly of perfume An elderly saleswoman smiles at you from behind a cosmetics counter and points to the ascending escalator Leave the department store There are no exits in a dream Go up the escalator You take the escalator to the second floor which is devoted to displays of men s fashions On the counter just before you a single leather glove on sale for 12 95 points to the UP escalator Go up the escalator or Control R to repeat the last command You take the escalator to the third floor where a white haired salesman stands daydreaming behind a counter displaying all kinds of cutlery Could I interest you in a knife S
19. will work everywhere in the game others will only work in certain situations AM BURP CRY ANSWER BUY DAMN ARE CALL DEPOSIT ARISE CARESS DEPRESS ASCEND CATCH DESCEND ASK CHANGE DIAL ATTACK CHASE DIM BANG CHECK DISCUSS BATHE CHOKE DO BEG CLEAN DON T BLANK CLIMB DRAW BOARD CLOSE DRINK BREAK COME DROP BREATH COMMIT EAT BRING CROSS ENTER ESCAPE EXAMINE EXERCISE FEEL FIGHT FIND FLUSH FOLD FOLLOW FONDLE FORCE FORGIVE GET GIVE GO GOT GRAB HAIL HANG HAIL HAVE HAPPENED HIDE HELP INSERT HIT IS JERK JUMP KISS KNOW LIFT LISTEN LOCATE OPEN ORDER PANHANDLE PICK PERUSE PLACE PLAY PLEASE PLUG PRAY PRESS PROPOSE PROTEST PULL PURCHASE PURSUE PUSH PUT RAISE REFUSE READ REVIVE REMOVE RISE RIDE RUN ROLL SAVE SAY SCRATCH SCREAM SCREW SEARCH SEEK SEND SET SHOUT SHUT SHOW SILENCE SIT SKETCH SLAP SLIP SMACK SMELL SMASH SNIFF STAND SPLIT STEP STRUGGLE STRANGLE SWIM SUMMON TALK TAKE ADDITIONAL COMMANDS EAST or E Go East WEST or W Go West NORTH or N Go North SOUTH or S Go South NOSCORE Turn off score SCORE Turn on score Ze Help INV or STATUS or INVENTORY Take inventory TIME Displays time and day WAIT WAKE WALK WANT WAS WASH WATCH WRENCH WRING YANK YAWN ZIP Additional Features Repeating Commands Sometimes you might want to repeat a command to save retyping it To do this simply type Control R hold down the Control key
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