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Graeme Cree's Witness bugs page
- In version 13, you can GET IN just about any object, with numerous buggy
results. You can GET IN CARVED CHAIR without Mr. Linder complaining, and thus
be sharing the chair with him when he's shot. If you GET IN something you're
carrying, then any reference to yourself asks which one you mean. If you GET
IN ME, you can DROP ME. If you GET IN something after meeting Linder but
before he takes you to the office, he follows you into it. When it's time to
go to the office, he takes you out of whatever you're in. The possibilities
are legion.
- In version 13, if you drop the handcuffs then you can't pick them back
up. You're told, "You shouldn't release a suspect until your work is finished
here."
- In versions 13 and 18, you can get the chunk of putty or the piece of green
wire before the window is broken, using EAT, READ, or LIGHT.
- In versions 13 through 20, EXAMINE WINDOW gives the same description
(including the white wires and electric relay), whether you're inside or
outside the house, but EXAMINE WHITE WIRE says, "There's no wire here.", when
you're outside.
- In versions 18 and up, you can GET CUFFS when you're already holding
them. Each time you get the response, "You are now carrying the pair of handcuffs."
- All versions have a serious bug in the use of IT. You can interact with
objects you haven't even seen yet, using IT. For example, you can EXAMINE
LIQUOR CABINET THEN OPEN IT, or FIND MYSTERY THEN READ IT from anywhere in the
game. Another interesting thing to do is EXAMINE WOODEN CHAIR THEN SIT IN IT
on the first turn. This doesn't get you inside the house, but Mr. Linder tells
you his story and hands you the threatening note.
- In all versions, although you can't GET objects inside a closed container,
you can do just about anything else to them, as if they were visible in the
room. If they're otherwise takeable, then you can even pick them up using EAT,
READ, or LIGHT.
- In all versions, the dresser in Linder's bedroom can be closed, but not
opened.
- In all versions, if you PUT something ON BED in Monica's or Phong's room,
it's gone forever, unless you remove it using IT right after. If you LOOK ON
BED, you see everything you've put on either of these beds. PUT something IN
TUB has the same problem. If you PUT something IN CLOCK, it's just gone; you
can't even see it using LOOK IN CLOCK.
- In all versions, HANDCUFF MONICA TO something puts the cuffs in it. So if
you HANDCUFF MONICA TO CABINET THEN OPEN CABINET, you "see a pair of
handcuffs" inside it. HANDCUFF MONICA TO CLOCK or BED makes the cuffs
disappear. After you do this, UNTIE MONICA picks them back up, but they don't
show in your inventory. If they're the only thing you're holding, INVENTORY
gives no output. If you DROP them they don't show in the room description, and
you can't pick them up again.
- In all versions, a number of unexpected objects can be locked and unlocked.
These include the mystery book, refrigerator, bathtub, dresser, and cupboard.
- In all versions, if you try to LOCK or UNLOCK anything in the presence of
the living Linder, he says, "Don't leave yet. We're just getting started."
- In all versions, if you KNOCK ON a DOOR with someone on the other side, you
get, "Someone shouts, "Go to the front door!"", unless it's the front door. In
that case you get, "A muffled voice says, "Come in!"". This even works if you
KNOCK ON FRONT DOOR from Entry when someone's on the porch, or if you KNOCK ON
TOILET DOOR when Monica's in the toilet room.
- In all versions, you can TELL anything visible ABOUT something, producing
such responses as, "grandfather clock lets out a loud yawn.", or "broom
appears to be getting impatient." You can also ASK anything visible ABOUT
something nonexistent such as GREEN KEY or something not in the game yet such
as TICKET, producing such responses as, "bed looks confused. "I don't know
anything about any ticket!"".
- In all versions, you can ASK any character FOR DRINK or CIGARETTE at any
time, whether present or not. You can even ASK MR. LINDER FOR CIGARETTE when
he's dead, and he smokes with you.
- In all versions, you can EXAMINE CIGARETTE anywhere. You get, "All you can
see is an ashtray full of butts."
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