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Subject: The strange ending of Glowgrass (MAJOR SPOILERS!!)
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I decided to take a short break from bashing my head against a wall in
Once and Future to play something a little easier.  I started going
through the back issues of SPAG and came across Nate Cull's third place
entry from the '97 competition called Glowgrass.  Reading the review made
me curious enough to download it.  As it turns out, though Nate mentioned
a second release in the works, it never happened.  The game is a bit
buggy, but nothing I couldn't work around.  The thing that really threw me
for a loop was the "to be continued" sort of ending.  When I first read
it, I almost thought that the talk of the green blood was implying that
the main character committed suicide, but then I gave it a second thought
and came up with an elaborate theory.  Note that this pretty much spoils
the game, but with the subject line, hopefully nobody who hasn't played it
is reading this.

Anyway, I get the feeling that the "Green Plague" that is mentioned in the
game was somehow caused by the glowgrass itself.  Somehow, the process of
crating the glowing grass set loose the plague that wiped out humanity.
Also, the glowing apparently spread to all plant life.  At the end, the
entire jungle is glowing.  Also, I don't think quite all of humanity was
wiped out.  There were some survivors who escaped.  Where did they go?  I
would say that they must have gone to another planet.  However, even these
survivors were affected by the glowgrass.  After all, the protagonist
bleeds green.  So, I have it all worked out where the survivors of the
plague still had the virus or whatever, but they were immune to it.
Bottom line is that this game left so many loose ends and begged so bad
for a sequel that never happened, that we are left to fill in the details
with our imagination.  Anybody else have a different version of what they
think happened?  Also, what happened to the author?
