No problem! It’s one of my favorites. It took me a while to remember the name too, but what I did remember was “can you tork the talk?”
Very fair, so let’s build our dictionary with that in mind!
I landed on this interpretation when I first played it xD
It’s not my first playthrough, but it’s been my first one in a while. However, it might be others’ first playthrough, so I appreciate keeping mum about the puzzles!
Now let’s try some of the stuff yall suggested.
Jallon
> jallon
This takes us to a menu! The header says “Jallon for “The Gostak””.
P = plazzy fesh
RETURN = tunk fesh
0 = osta fesh
Q = regomb halpock
Then the menu items:
Dedges
Brolges
Credits and License
Let’s go through at least Dedges. I agree with @rovarsson that this will definitely be helpful when understanding the game.
[pressing RETURN/ENTER key on keyboard]
Dedges
Bewly dedges
Pelling
Doatching
Heamy dapes
This is a long menu and is almost a shortcut to understanding a lot of the game, so I’ll put the items in summary/details in case you want to puzzle it out just from pure gameplay yourself.
Bewly dedges
This is a halpock. As in all halpocks, you doatch at it about what to do in a camling by louking murr English dedges, and the halpock louks back. Durly, you could rask a chuld (if you rebbed one) by louking:
>RASK THE CHULD
Rasked.
You could then tunk the chuld, or pob it at a tendo, or whatever:
>DURCH CHULD
Nothing heamy results.
>POB MY CHULD AT THE GHARMY TENDO
The tendo leils it.
You can use multiple objects with some dapes:
>RASK THE GELN, THE POTCHNER, AND THE FACK
>POB ALL EXCEPT DRAGUE
You can also louk multiple dedges by using “.” or THEN:
>RASK GELN THEN RASK POTCHNER. POB FACK.
One very heamy dape is TUNK. You’ll be using TUNK a lot, so you can disengope it to T:
>T TENDO
The tendo isn’t gharmy now that it’s leiled a chuld.
The halpock recognises many other dapes! Try anything. If the halpock louks a dape, maybe you can louk it back.
[Please louk SPACE.]
Pelling
To pell from deave to deave, just louk with that fesh! You must also louk the lutt to pell at.
>PELL AT THE LOFF LUTT
>PELL AT LOFF
You can also louk this less gopely:
>PELL L
…or even:
L
Likewise, HOFF can be disengoped to H, JIHOFF to JH, and so on.
You can also pell at deaves. If you rebbed a mosteg, you could:
>PELL AT THE MOSTEG
>GOMB THE MOSTEG
Of course, you can’t pell at all lutts from all deaves. And even if you could, there are glauds…
[Please louk SPACE.]
Doatching
Doatching is sloagy in this halpock, and a gope tunder of brolges. If you reb someone to doatch at, louk:
>DOATCH ABOUT something AT someone
or:
>DOATCH AT someone ABOUT something
The fesh of your doatching can be anything you’ve rebbed or anything someone has doatched at you about.
As in other halpocks, you can also doatch dedges for others by using the fetticle (“,”). To doatch at a pank to rask a koshle, you would louk:
>PANK, RASK THE KOSHLE
…but in this halpock, such dedges will never do anything heamy.
[Please louk SPACE.]
Heamy dapes
There are some heamy dapes for dedges about the halpock itself:
QUIT: Quits the halpock.
SAVE/RESTORE: These dapes let you regomb the halpock to an osta. SAVE tunds the halpock to your feshary, and RESTORE regombs it.
RESTART: Regombs the halpock as it was before you louked any dedges at all.
UNDO: Undoes the osta camling, as if it had been distunked.
AGAIN (or G): Relouks your dedge from the osta camling.
OOPS (or O): Oopses a mislouk in the osta dedge. Whatever you louk in the dedge with OOPS will be oopsed into the mislouk.
VERBOSE/BRIEF/SUPERBRIEF: Rikes the halpock’s louking when you gomb a deave. VERBOSE louks gope tunkage of deaves whenever you gomb them. BRIEF louks gope tunkage of deaves if you haven’t been there before, and ungope tunkage otherwise. SUPERBRIEF always louks ungope tunkage of deaves.
REB (or R): Louks gope tunkage of your deave.
SCORE: Louks your pellage in the halpock.
MILM (or M): Tunks your raskage.
SCRIPT ON/SCRIPT OFF: SCRIPT ON tunds a pashual of the halpock to your feshary or tavidlouker. SCRIPT OFF undoes SCRIPT ON.
ZONCHA (or Z): Zonchas for a camling.
[Please louk SPACE.]
Whew!
Play the halpock for realsies
Now let's actually try some things in the game! Pressing 'q' to regomb halpock brings us back to the initial Delcot.> distunk glaunds
Which do you mean, the raskable glaud, the poltive glaud, the glaud-with-roggler, the glaud of jenth or the Cobbic glaud?
Oh, right…there are five glauds. The header of the game says “Glauds: 5”, reminding us of this fact. Let’s uh, just pick the first one?
> raskable glaud
You distunk it.
What that did…who knows! Aside from increment Camlings (in the header) to 2. Let’s try the opposite now?
> tunk raskable glaud
A raskable glaud is about as unheamy as a darf of jenth, but at least it can vorl the doshery from the gitches.
A naft of gitches pells at the hoggam.
Huh, there’s a glaud of jenth too.
> discren raskable glaud
How?
This is just like how parsers complain about “use item” isn’t it? The game wants us to be more specific.
> cren raskable glaud
Just pob it at a lutt and it’ll cren itself.
> distim raskable glaud
You can only do that to something poltive.
There’s a poltive glaud as well. This also means that doshes must be poltive, because you distim doshes.
> tim raskable glaud
Gostaks distim, not tophth.
A warb degombs the brangy.
Ah! It doesn’t say “Gostaks distim, not tim.” It says “Gostaks distim, not tophth.” What’s the relation between ‘tim’ and ‘tophth’?
> vorl raskable glaud
Vorling is the fesh of ghelipers.
A gitch frikes from the hoggam to zank and leil the warb.
> disvorl raskable glaud
That’s not a dape I recognise.
Alas!
We still have 5 Glauds. Camlings is at 7.
(Also, if it isn’t clear from my posts so far, this is meant to be a Let’s play, in that I want people to suggest commands and stuff so they can also get exposed to the game! I am putting all of the text that I receive from the parser in this thread, and will continue to do so unless an action is repetitive.)