King's Quest (1984)

@daventry, @Grue13, на одном из забугорных фанатских форумах задал вопрос. Получил ответ от какого-то KQ маньяка. По другому не назову человека, который так глубоко копает игру 87-го года

Длинное сообщение на английском

I don't yet know how you got into this state, but I can see why you're dying.

When you fall into "deadly water", like the strong river current, the game sets the variable v95 equal to 50. This var acts as a timer counting down every cycle. When it finishes the player dies.

Somehow you triggered this timer but managed to get back onto land before dying, which should be impossible. Since this drown timer only decrements while in a room with a body of water, you're safe until you return to any screen that loads the "swim script" (logic101). In your save game, v95 has counted down from 50 to 4 , so you die almost immediately when the swim script loads on room change.

As I said above, it should be impossible for v95 to be set while on dry land like this. Did you do any dangerous swimming before this problem happened? Maybe you fell in, but triggered a room change somehow?

Anyway. If you want to recover your save file, you can use debugging commands to change the value of v95 to 0. This solves the problem and will allow you continue with your current progress. Here's how:

Enable "debugging mode" in KQ1 by pressing [ALT + d]. You should see a text box with the game version number "2.02". Press return twice to clear the text boxes.

Now that debugging is enabled type SET VAR.

It asks which var to set. Enter 95.

It asks what value to set the var. Enter 0.

You should now be able to enter a room with water without dying. Let me know if that works or you have any follow up questions.

More information on AGI debugging can be found here: Debug Modes - AGI Wiki

В общем, это всё же баг.