What’s the next step in these adventure game puzzles?

In the 1980s and early 1990s if you wanted a videogame with a decently written story, adventure games were the only place to find them. Back then RPGs were mostly dungeon crawls, or full of olde worlde thee-and-thou guff. Immersive sims didn’t exist. Visual novels were rarely translated into English. Other genres would give you a paragraph of text and a pat on the back, then send you on your way.

Because point-and-click adventures evolved out of text adventures they brought some of text’s wordiness with them. When you wanted to adapt a book to a videogame, whether it was The Hobbit or The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, adventure games were the way to do it.