# Wearing the Claw (Release 3, serial 970327, Inform v1502 Library 5/12, Z-machine V5)
# by Paul O'Brian (IF Comp 1996) -- title banner: "WEARING THE CLAW / An
# Interactive Fantasy / Copyright (c) 1996, 1997 by Paul O'Brian."
# VERIFIED COMPLETE SOLVE: won=True (win text), died=False
#
# Reproduce with the RNG-pinned replay harness (free, no API):
#   cd ~/src/zwalker
#   python3 scripts/replay_solve.py games/zcode/wearing_the_claw.z5 \
#       walkthroughs/wearing_the_claw_verified_win.txt --seeds 24 \
#       --out solutions/wearing_the_claw_verified.json
#   => wearing_the_claw_verified_win.txt: VERIFIED 0/None at seed 1 |
#      159 cmds | died=False | won=True
#
# SCORELESS: Wearing the Claw has no SCORE verb (the parser answers "That's not
# a verb I recognise"), and zwalker's get_score() reads 0 throughout, w.max_score
# is None. So there is no MAX_SCORE directive; the win is decided solely by the
# WIN_TEXT directive below, matched against the true winning denouement. The
# phrase "save another foolish wizard" is Marnian's parting whisper and appears
# ONLY in the winning ending (printed in the same turn as "*** You have won ***").
#
# BOOT KEYPRESS: the title screen ("Welcome to WEARING THE CLAW... / [Please
# press SPACE to continue]") is a read_char prompt. The FIRST command below,
# `enter` (RETURN in this harness), satisfies it; that single keypress also
# flushes the whole prologue (Lord Midel's plea, the Emily Dickinson epigraph)
# and drops you at Dirt Road. There is only ONE intro keypress -- the prologue
# does not pause again. Boot draws no RNG (two boots are byte-identical), so the
# seed is pinned right after start(); seed 1 wins on the first try.
#
# WHY A PINNED SEED: the plot is deterministic (a fixed puzzle ladder, no timers
# and no combat), but the game burns RNG on flavor (child/gull ambience, the
# "black fly" stings, breeze lulls), so exact replay only reproduces under a
# pinned interpreter RNG seed. Seed 1 is verified.
#
# ROUTE SUMMARY (Bex village -> Isle of the Goergs -> home):
#   * Disguise the wolf paw: reach Goodman's Emporium (via the beach loop back
#     into town), `buy glove` (with the gold piece), `tie glove to paw` (with
#     mother's handkerchief) so Old Bill will deal with you.
#   * `buy contract` from Old Bill in the Shed (with the topaz), board the ship
#     at the Pier -> ferried to the island's Rocky Shore.
#   * Island ring: read the fortress plaque (learn the word of returning), take
#     the black coat ("PhantomPiercer, BarrierBreaker") at the Southwest Corner,
#     tour the corners to the Clearing's silver (mirror) wall.
#   * `wear coat` + `touch silver wall` -> the wall vanishes; enter the fortress.
#   * The Styx/Cerberus/brimstone gauntlet is illusion: the coat lets you pass
#     the barrier, but WATER destroys the coat -- so stow it (remove/put in
#     pack/close pack) before the river and before the dripping barrier, wear it
#     only to walk past Cerberus, and NEVER hit the dog (instant death).
#   * Queen Clea gives the Pendant of Elinor (look in crystal x3); the pendant
#     "destroys lies", so the barrier gauntlet reveals itself as Bare Hallway +
#     Foyer on the way out. Return to the Southeast Corner, say `yeyos` to
#     teleport home to the Town Square.
#   * Endgame: Midel has illusion-swapped himself with Marnian. `give pendant to
#     marnian` unmasks the fraud; `wear coat` + `enter cage` survives Midel's
#     sword (do NOT leave the cage or dawdle -- decapitation); `give coat to
#     marnian` lets him escape the cage and defeat Midel -> *** You have won ***.
#
# ROLLBACK NOTE: this V5 game reports real room-object changes, so GameWalker's
# blocked-move rollback never fires on the winning path (every listed move is a
# genuine room change or a harmless in-room action). Blocked probes en route say
# "There's no path that way." which is not a rollback pattern anyway. No
# period-suffixed directions are needed.
#
#% WIN_TEXT: save another foolish wizard
#
# Route from David Welbourn's Release 3 solution (plover.net/~davidw), corrected
# for the Beach maze (the flattened summary dropped the east step from Beach
# (south) to Beach (southeast)) and machine-validated command-by-command on this
# interpreter; replay-verified by scripts/replay_solve.py.
enter
x me
i
remove pack
x it
open it
x parchment
x handkerchief
x gold
x topaz
x town
x mountains
w
x buildings
w
x garments
x alehouse
w
n
s
w
x shop
s
x desk
x bell
ring bell
n
w
x sand
x waves
n
x man
ask man about ships
x paw
s
nw
x island
x bushes
s
e
sw
x ship
x sea
w
ne
s
x pebbles
e
nw
e
e
e
n
x clothes
x box
x table
x glove
buy glove
wear glove
take handkerchief
tie glove to paw
x clerk
ask clerk about glove
ask clerk about town
ask clerk about alehouse
ask clerk about shop
ask clerk about boarding house
ask clerk about old bill
ask clerk about ship
ask clerk about goergs
s
w
w
w
n
ask man about ship
buy contract
x contract
s
sw
w
x sea
w
x wall
read plaque
take plaque
x sand
w
take coat
x it
x crag
n
climb wall
e
x silver wall
e
w
n
x pebbles
x waves
s
touch silver wall
wear coat
touch silver wall
s
read sign
remove coat
put coat in pack
close pack
x river
x shapes
s
s
x dog
pet dog
open pack
wear coat
s
x water
remove coat
put coat in pack
close pack
s
s
s
x clea
look in crystal
again
again
ask clea about midel
ask clea about marnian
ask clea about crystal
ask clea about curse
ask clea about pendant
ask clea about goergs
ask clea about magic
ask clea about illusion
give crystal to clea
x pendant
look
x northwest door
x northeast door
x throne
x dog
x basins
n
x drain
n
n
e
s
x plaque
yeyos
remove pendant
give pendant to marnian
open pack
wear coat
enter cage
remove coat
give coat to marnian