====== Simon versus Jack the Ripper ======
It'll do until I can think of a better title.
I like steampunk, and I like the concept of almost magical technological devices as a toolkit to solve problems.  And let's face it - virtually all Interactive Fiction is puzzle solving.
If all goes well, I'll do a series of semi-comedic adventures with Simon the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technomage|Technomage]].  Because he's basically the first original character I thought of (although he's based on someone else's IP setting)  --- //[[curufea@yahoo.com|Peter Cobcroft]] 13/03/2006 14:36//

===== Plot =====
  - Introduction of character
  - Introduction of setting
  - Example puzzle (fixing the engine)
  - Cut To: Jack's first crime (Shadow offer)
  - Simon's arrival (crash in gardens)
  - Side quest #1 that leads to public social event
  - Cut To: Jack's second crime
  - Discovery of body by Simon and subsequent incarceration/mistaken identity
  - Plot A: Simon escapes before the next body turns up \\ Plot B: Simon stays in jail until the next body turns up.
  - A: Fugitive Simon must track clues by himself \\ B: Innocent Simon must gather evidence for the constabulary
  - A: Confrontation with Jack \\ B: Entrapment and escape (Vorlon)
  - B: Confrontation with Jack (similar to A: above) (Vorlon)
  - Finish
=== Set pieces ===
  * [[Bad puns and situations]]

===== Simon =====
[[..:munchausen:simon_the_technomage|All about Simon]]

==== Technomagic Toolkit ====
[[Technomagic Toolkit]]
  * Microphone and small loudhailer for Voice of Authority (tm)
  * Smokebomb for mysterious disappearances (shortly followed by mysterious coughing and hacking, and mysterious hiding around corners or running really fast)
  * Wizard's staff for hitting things with (sometimes this is intentional) and zapping things (requires recharginge each time)
  * Illusion powers
  * A robe of keeping sharp hurty things from being sharp and hurty
  * A black spaceship.  Called Kewl. Capable of time travel, occasionally does so while Simon is in it.
  * Crystal ball.  For looking at locations where a probe is hidden.
  * Probe.  Microscopic camera/microphone.

===== Other Characters =====
  * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper|Jack the Ripper]] - antagonist (circa 1888 - non fictional) [[Sebastion]] (fictional)
  * Police Constable Larry McSweeney
  * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Warren|Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Charles Warren]] GCMG KCB FRS (7 February 1840–21 January 1927) (non fictional)
  * Lord Talbot Farnsworth and his wife, Lady Penelope
  * Vincent and Pansy a lovestruck, but unlucky, couple.

===== Locations =====
  * [[Whitechapel]] (majority of adventure)
    * Buck's Row a back street in Whitechapel two hundred yards from the London Hospital. First victim ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Nichols|Mary Ann Nichols]]  discovered at about 3:40 in the early morning of Friday, August 31, 1888)
    * Back yard of 29 Hanbury Street, Whitechapel.  Second victim ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Chapman|Annie Chapman]] discovered 6:00 on the morning of Saturday, September 8, 1888)
    * Dutfield's Yard, off Berner Street (since renamed Henriques Street) in Whitechapel ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Stride|Elizabeth Stride]] discovered close to 1:00 in the early morning of Sunday, September 30,)
    * Dark corner of Mitre Square ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Eddowes|Catherine Eddowes]] discovered at 1:44 in the early morning of Sunday, September 30, 1888)
    * Sewers
  * [[Kewl]] (start and finish)
    * Pilot's cabin
    * Quarters
    * Access corridor
    * Storage room
    * Airlock
    * Engine room
  * [[Ball]] (Entrance quest and Side quest #1)
    * Entrance foyer
    * Dance hall
    * Buffet
    * Terrace
    * Bushes 
    * NW Grounds
    * NE Grounds
    * SW Grounds
    * SE Grounds
    * Fountain 
  * [[Jail]] (after the Ball)
    * Office
    * Corridor
    * Cell
  * [[Graveyard]] (for the shootout/confrontation with Jack)
    * Behind gravestone
    * Behind crypt
    * Pathway

===== Puzzles =====
  * (3) [[Kewl Puzzles|Operating time device and/or repairing same]]
    * Object/logic puzzle
  * (5) [[Kewl Puzzles|Landing Kewl]]
    * Maths puzzle
  * (6) [[Ball Puzzles|Socialising and getting people to talk to Simon]]
    * Conversation puzzle
  * (8) //non-puzzle, gathering clues from body//
    * Investigation
  * (9) Escape from jail
    * Timing/object puzzle
  * (10a) Getting in to the scene of the crime without being arrested \\ (10b) Getting past obnoxious Londoners to gather clues
    * Timing/object puzzle
  * (11a) [[Trap Jack Puzzle|Attacks and defences, possibly maze-like]] \\ (11b) [[Trap Jack Puzzle|Arrangements of police to trap Jack]]
    * Placement/movement puzzle
  * (12b) [[Trap Jack Puzzle|Attacks and defences, possibly maze-like]]
    * Placement/movement puzzle
  * (13) [[Kewl Puzzles|Getting back into Kewl and taking off]]
    * Maths/logic puzzle

===== Objects =====
Should be an object-light game as Technomages come with their own toolkits :)

The tricky part is to creatively come up with negatives to most of the toolkit in situations it isn't meant to be used. 

===== Code =====
[[simonvjack.t]] - the code so far (only just started)