Welcome to THE WISE-WOMAN’S DOG, by Daniel M. Stelzer! You can play this game in three different versions.

The ideal way to play it is by opening the file `index.html` in a web browser. The web version features music, figures, and hyperlinks, and has the best formatting and accessibility, but won’t run on all devices.

The game can also be played in a standard Z-machine interpreter, such as Frotz or Gargoyle. The formatting in this version is more limited, but it can run on pretty much any device. The file `hasawa.zblorb` uses Unicode for em-dashes and curly quotes, while the file `hasawa.ascii.zblorb` uses pure-ASCII equivalents, for compatibility with older terminals. If you don’t know what that means, choose `hasawa.zblorb`; if you start seeing strange boxes and question marks, switch to `hasawa.ascii.zblorb`.

If you get stuck, the THINK command will guide you toward the puzzles you can currently solve. If that doesn’t help, the file `hints.html` contains progressive hints for each puzzle.

The Z-machine version will sometimes direct you to look at a certain file “in the download”, since that version can’t embed figures directly. When this happens, look in the `resources` folder.

Enjoy!
DMS

P.S. This is version 1.03/250928, with some mid-comp updates to improve certain pain points:
 - Footnote reminder messages will be less intrusive and disappear after being displayed twice
 - Tutorial messages can be disabled in the options
 - MUSIC ON/OFF commands should be less fiddly

From version 1.02:
 - The RECALL command will no longer produce nonsensical disambiguation messages
 - Additional hints to clarify what an ominous feeling or a pleasant feeling means and what effect it has on the game

From version 1.01:
 - Soldiers will not confiscate previously-confiscated items again until you leave the room and return
 - Special hyperlinks added in time-sensitive sequences to avoid spending precious turns looking for the right link
 - The goal of chapter 3 is now more explicitly called out in a certain item’s description, with a marker on the map until that item has been examined
 - Hints for two difficult puzzles now include explicit step-by-step solutions
