The Gaming Den

Tuttivillus is not Abaddon. Follow the passage around. Insert communism joke if strictly necessary.

Turn right, following the landing. We need to find Abaddon for the message to do us any good.

Ignore it and go on.

Around the landing.

Investigate the window.

Around the landing.

Move past it.

Drawers.

Leave.

Walk past the rooms.

Y'only get FEAR from learning "ghosts are real" once. "Some of them are mean" is implied.

Help her.

Turn back, before the sunk cost fallacy gets us killed.

Left.

People, yes.

"How do I escape from the house?" locks you out of possibly winning, as you automatically attempt to leave; as Queen of Swords either guessed or knew already, this does not succeed and leaves you somewhere from which you cannot reach victory.

Since hitting him some more is not an option, ask him questions.

Clear liquid? Sounds like white wine. KILL HIM! Or at least beat him up.

In all seriousness, to what Thaluikhain asked, some Fighting Fantasy gamebooks (Scorpion Swamp) can be completed while avoiding metagaming. This...is not one of them. Remotely.

Lurk in ambush behind the door.

Pretend to go to bed and wait.

Go to sleep.

The magazine version doesn't drop any of the dinner section, though it does both switch the entire House from "avoid white wine" to "avoid red wine," and flip the dinner section from "must avoid being drugged to reach victory section" to "must be drugged to reach v...

Fruit, coffee, and brandy.

This book, unsurprisingly for the survival horror genre, offers many chances, right from the start, to choose something trivial that makes it unwinnable.

Duck.

Red wine. The painting is the mostonly trustworthy entity we've met here.

Relax, drink the brandy, and ask about the telephone.