Looking for an IF from late 90's early 2000's
I have been thinking about this interactive fiction I played and loved in the past. I remember coming across a IF competition and trying some of the candidates. I don t remember anything about the name. Its like remembering a dream, little bits and pieces here and there and I am not sure i am not pulling from other games I played at the same time.
What I remember
I think the character is a female
I remember being in a forest and a stream runs down to the beach or you can go up to a house in another direction
I think there is a cave, maybe under the house and there is a creature in the cave that may have been an homage to Zork. (Very fuzzy on this)
The best part is the hardest to describe. The game mechanics become more and more fantastical as you play and I think you there is a part by the ocean / sea where you maybe astral project or something like that.
Other small things, there might have been an important necklace, a missing or dead parent and maybe a dolphin you talk to in your mind or maybe you just see it.
I wish I hade more clear info.
Thank you for any help!
I think is is World's Apart. Thank you so much for helping me find this again and now I have new ones to enjoy too.