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FOREWORD
FILM NOIR
BY TERRY PRATCHETT
(A guide for those people who think Star Wars is an old movie)
Technically, film noir means 'black film', but...
...look, you know what it has come to mean, even if you didn't know what it
was called, because I doubt if there has ever been a movie style that can be
so recognisably parodied. Film Noir is what you get when you stir together
The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, Casablanca, To Have and Have Not
and
several dozen other movies made in the 40s and 50s. The weather is bad, the
lighting is low, the streets are mean, life is cheap and the women are tougher
than nails and have shoulder pads on which a competent pilot could land a
small jet. People tend to lie a lot and double-cross one another.
It's the monochrome world of cynical detectives with their names spelled
backwards on the glass doors of seedy offices and a bottle of rye in their
desk drawer. And people smoked a lot, probably because of the stress of the
lying, double-crossing, bad weather and walking into furniture in the low light.
Technically, it died out in the mid-50s and the lightening of the post-war
gloom, but surfaces in countless parodies
(Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid)
homages
(Blade Runner)
and references so ingrained in popular culture that
you probably know exactly what I'm talking about even if you've never seen
one of the movies.
Play it again, Sam.
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DISCWORLD
(A guide for those people who think fantasy only comes in brick-thick volumes)
Discworld is...
...but you're just bought the third Discworld computer game, and you don't
know about the twenty-three books, the maps, the posters, the badges, the
beers, the diaries, bookmarks, figurines, fan clubs, conventions and very
popular cross-stitch
embroidery designs?
Shall we wait for you to catch up?
All right.
The action in many of the books centres in and around the ancient, thriving
and cheerfully-corrupt city of Ankh-Morpork. The weather is bad, the
lighting is low, the streets are mean (oh, yes) life is expensive because it's
death that's cheap, and the women are pretty tough even without shoulder-
pads. People tend to lie a lot and double-cross one another.
It's a naked city of a million stories, many of them badly spelled and cut
very short. There are trolls, dwarfs, werewolves, zombies, wizards and
vampires among the citizenry. Mostly they just want to earn the next dollar.
And now it's just got its first private eye. He can look forward to being lied
to and double-crossed, but that's only the
start of his problems...
As they say in Sham Harga's House of Ribs:
"Play it again, Sham."
Terry Pratchett
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD
CONTENTS
THE BACKGROUND
Introduction
Rough Guide to the Discworld
From Sea to Shining Sea
Population of the Discworld
Ankh-Morpork
Of Gods, Small and Dark
The Races of the Discworld
Humans (Homo Sapiens)
Dwarves (Hortus Decorus)
Trolls (Stultus Saxum)
Werewolves (Lupus Sapiens)
Vampires (Nosferatu Sanguineus)
Other Races
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THE GAME
Minimum System Specification
Installing the Game
Playing Discworld Noir
Starting the Game
Using the Mouse
Lewton’s Mouse Controls
Change of views
Exits
Interacting
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INVENTORIES
The Notebook
Clues
Notebook Structure
Notebook Commands
The Object Inventory
Lewton’s Bag
Inventory Commands
Other Inventories
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CONVERSATIONS
Hard Boiled Monologue
The Conversation Window
How to Talk to People
How to Stop talking to People
Talking about Clues and Objects
Confrontations
THE OPTIONS WINDOW
What is the Options Window?
The Options
Load a Game
Save this Game
Restart Game
Sound /Subtitles
Gamma Correction
Quit Playing
USING THE KEYBOARD
COPY PROTECTION
UK TECHNICAL SUPPORT
THE CREDITS
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THE BACKGROUND
INTRODUCTION
This is a story about murder and intrigue. A story about the occult and relics of a forgotten
era. It is set on the Discworld, a world which is flat and rides on the back of four giant elephants
who stand on the shell of the enormous star turtle Great A’Tuin, and which is bounded by a
waterfall that cascades endlessly into space. Scientists have calculated that the chance of
anything so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated
that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.
Our hero, if such a word is not too strong a description, is a man named Lewton, formerly of
the Ankh-Morpork city Watch. Expelled from the Watch for taking a bribe, he has only just started
to pull his life together after years lost in a drunken haze. Trying to get his life back together,
Lewton has set up shop as Ankh-Morpork’s first Private Investigator.
All he needs now is a case…
ROUGH GUIDE TO THE DISCWORLD
From Sea to Shining Sea
It was the Ephebian philosopher Expletius who first proved that the Disc was 10,000 miles
across. Viewers from space can appreciate in full its vast 30,000 mile circumference, garlanded
by the long Rimfall, where the seas of the Disc drop endlessly into space. It gives the impression,
with its continents, archipelagos, seas, deserts and mountain ranges, that the Creator designed it
to be looked at from above.
Its tiny orbiting sunlet, with prominences no bigger than croquet hoops, maintains a fixed
elliptical orbit, while the Disc revolves beneath it. The little moon shines by its own light, owing to
the cramped and rather inefficient astronomical arrangements. Owing to the
position of the sun, the Hub of the Disc is never closely warmed and is covered in
permafrost and barbarians .
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It is well known that barbarians prefer tundra to warmer climes, since it is more dramatic
to emerge from the screaming tumult of a snowstorm, than to be found sunning your
pectoral muscles on a deckchair.

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