Text Adventure

[Mack_The_Knife]

You all remember Zork and the other old text adventure computer games, right? Well in this game, you must type in what the player should do and also what happens to him.

Example:

Post 1) You are in a ROOM. obvious exits are NORTH and SOUTH. What do you do?
        >GO SOUTH

Post 2) It is very dark. You may be eaten by a GRUE. What do you do?
        >RUN AWAY

...and so on

Make sure to capitilize key words and certain objects like SOUTH, DOOR, and other important stuff. If you see a person, ask him anything! Once you enter a room you must remember whats in the room, and don't forget NOT to change anything.

Now to Start!!!
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You are standing in an open FIELD west of a white HOUSE, with a boarded front DOOR. There is a small MAILBOX here. Obvious exits are IN and WEST. What do you do?
 
 > OPEN DOOR

[Glorb]

As you open the DOOR, a crazy GRUE kicks you in the FAMILY JEWELS.

***You have died***

But hey, whaddaya know? This being a fantasy game and all, I suppose I can resurrect you somewhere random...

Inside Mailbox
You are inside the MAILBOX. It's DARK, and CRAMPED.

[Mack_The_Knife]

> LOOK AT MAIL

It is too dark to read the MAIL.

> OPEN MAILBOX

[WarpRattler]

You open the mailbox.

> exit mailbox

You exit the mailbox.

> open door

You cannot open the door. It is boarded up.

> inventory

You have a rope, a stick, and a blessed spellbook of force bolt.

> zap force bolt at door

You hit the door with a force bolt! It is blown off its hinges, and falls down, crushing the grue that was hiding behind the door.

> e

You enter the house. There is an unlit fireplace, with an elaborate sword hanging over the mantle. You are standing on top of a door with a grue corpse under it.

> take sword

You take the sword.

> eat grue

What do you think this is, Soviet Russia? You can't eat the grue.

> w

You are standing outside. (Now I'm going to go back to you guys' command formatting.)

> WEST

[Rao]

You go WEST. You are now standing in an open FIELD, there is a MAN there, and lots of GRASS.

> TALK MAN

[Glorb]

The mans stands there, puzzled. "TALK MAN?" he scoffs. "You seem to have mistaken me for one of those ignoramic two-word-parser guys. As you can clearly see, I am fully capable of both giving and recieving speech in perfect English, and I am, quite frankly, offended that you would assume that I am incapable of basic verb inflection and vocabulary skills. Perhaps you should go talk to one of those cats on the Internet I hear so much about. Meanwhile, I bid you farewell. Farewell, and never darken my doorstep again."

***You have been served***

[Rao]

You walk away from the MAN, and go EAST. There is a tall TOWER, and a big TREE.

> GO TOWER

[Mack_The_Knife]

You are outside of the  TOWER. There is a ROPE hanging from the WINDOW. The only entrance seems to be UP.

[Glorb]

>down

What the crap, man? I just said to go UP.

>up

That's better.

As you climb up, you seem to feel dizzy...

[your charisma just went down]

[Mack_The_Knife]

You get so dizzy you fall off the ROPE.

You are in a HOLE shaped like your own IMPRESSION. It is too high to go UP. It is also very dark, and you may be eaten by a GRUE.

>MAKE FIRE

[Glorb]

Now, just how do you expect to do that? Let's look at your inventory.

>inventory

You are carrying:

a ball of mashed potatoes
an empty shotgun (stolen from old man Johnson)
a wet piece of string

Obviously, not enough to make a fire.

>make fire

Okay, fine, whatever. A fire appears out of nowhere, against all logic.

[Your score just went down by 2 points]

There, that should compensate, cheaty.

[Rao]

The light from the FIRE illuminates the rest of the HOLE you are in. Suddenly, a GIANT WOLF jumps out of the shadows and lunges at you!

[Suffix]

> USE STRING

You hold the wet STRING like a clothesline, causing the GIANT WOLF to clamp down around it. The string must be saturated with something really gross, because the GIANT WOLF whines and hobbles off as if you had hit it with a desk lamp.

> LOOK

You're still in that HOLE. With your CHEATED FIRE, you can see that there is a TENNIS BALL CYLINDER lying on the ground, dejected. There are no apparent exits.

> LOOK CYLINDER

[Rao]

You look in the TENNIS BALL CYLINDER, and find an old SPELL BOOK,  a small KNIFE, and a beat-up PENDANT.

> READ SPELL BOOK

You read the SPELL BOOK, looking for a LEVITATING spell, or something that will get you out of this HOLE you're in.

[Mack_The_Knife]

> LOOK PENDANT

On the back of the PENDANT, it says "IF LOST RETURN TO MARLIE." Apparently, now YOU have a job: find out who MARLIE is, and return her PENDANT.