>inventory
You have:
a splitting headache
a real estate listing
>climb stairs
Very difficult, but you manage to climb as far as the landing. There is a glowing white statue in an alcove. The stairs continue on up into darkness.
>grab statue
Your common sense tells you not to do that.
>grab statue
You’re talking nonsense. Pull yourself together.
>grab statue
You pull on the statue. As it comes loose, there is a deafening roar. A large boulder comes falling down the stairs, headed right towards you.
>run
Did you have a particular direction in mind?
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Found By: Sara L
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Goes with the seance in the dining room.
Relive the fun all over again!
https://thcnet.net/zork/index.php
….I think I love you….
>Hello, Sailor!
Hey, I know you’re not old enough to be caught in a dark maze of twisty passages, all alike. That was my generation.
I’m not touching the age comment, but I was stealing lines from the Hitchhiker’s Guide game — which I really did play.
HHGTTG borrowed it from Zork: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork which in turn got it from Colossal Cave Adventure:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure . So it’s Older Than MTV.
To elaborate a little: I never played HHGTTG, although I did play lots of Zork back in the day.
One of Zork’s trademark phrases (and one of Colossal Cave Adventure’s) was, “You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.” (or sometimes “…all different”, depending on gameplay.)
All those Infocom text-adventure games had a common user interface, like the one you borrowed the text in this entry from. n,s,e,w for movement, “grab $OBJECT”, etc. Did HHGTTG ever say “You are in a maze of twisty little passages”?
>south
You are flattened by the boulder.
Would you like to play again? Y\N.
>n
Yeah, I loved the ghosts sitting at the dining table ( gives me hope that there is food in the after-life) and the blue pillow suspended in air above the chair in another photo.
LOL, I was just about to comment on the ghosts, too!
you have been eaten by a grue.
> hang gown on hook
The gown is now hanging from the hook, covering a tiny hole.
> put towel over drain.
The towel completely covers the drain.
> get satchel
Taken.
> put satchel in front of panel
Okay, the satchel is now lying on its side in front of the tiny robot panel.
> put junk mail on satchel
Okay, the loose pile of junk mail is now sitting on the satchel.
> press dispenser button
A single babel fish shoots out of the slot. It sails across the room and hits the dressing gown. The fish slides down the sleeve of the gown and falls to the floor, landing on the towel. A split-second later, a tiny cleaning robot whizzes across the floor, grabs the fish, and continues its breakneck pace toward a tiny robot panel at the base of the wall. The robot plows into the satchel, sending the babel fish flying through the air in a graceful arc surrounded by a cloud of junk mail. Another robot flies in and begins madly collecting the cluttered plume of mail. The babel fish continues its flight, landing with a loud “squish” in your ear.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game_nolan.shtml
Ha, I was going to comment on the tv-watching ghosts in the dining room, too.
The whole house, starting with the front door, gives me the uber-creeps.
Hail Sara, the dork goddess!
I worship you more every day.
This house is going to give me nightmares.
> cheer
Why?
> because this is my favorite post ever ever every on lovely listing
> Jump
Wasn’t that fun?
> Jump
Wheeee!
> Jump
Are you proud of yourself?
> Jump
Congratulations, you can go on to the second grade.
brilliant, love it
Marry me!
Holy cow, the last Adventure game I played was just like that. The fact that you just took me back 30 years in time is almost as scary as that stairwell.
I just love it and the vintage sheets covering everything. Looks like they could start hovering at any minute. Funny!
That was SUCH an awesome description.
You have no idea which direction your are facing
You have no idea which direction your are facing
You have no idea which direction your are facing
You have no idea which direction your are facing
You think you are facing east.
I get a “Grey Gardens” feeling about this one.. is the statue in the landing the marble fawn? eeek..
Okay, on the basis of just this post, oh internet poster who I have never met, it must be said: you are brilliant and I adore you!
I was thinking that the stairway wasn’t that narrow, then I saw that the listing was in Jamaica, Queens, NY. I’ve been living in NY now for 6 years….. I’ve gotten used to those stairways.
Very apt!. Brings back memories of time wasted as an undergrad, when Adventure was already an old game and the school computer ran at 1 MIPS…
Holy cow! When I came to the fireplace I literally jumped out of my skin! I don’t even want to know what that triangular thingy above the FP is! Some kind of ancient triangle worship stone?! “Bow to Triangle 3 times, click your heals, then repeat to yourself ‘I will NEVER leave this house, I will NEVER leave this house, I will never….’”
thanks for the flashback!
Count me among your newfound suitors. I can’t tell you how many days, or weeks, or was it months, I spent toting around A Cupful of Something That Tasted Almost, But Not Quite, Entirely Unlike Tea.
I miss being a geek.
Now remember…
use your wizardhood wisely. It is a privilege, not a right.
I love that you are channeling zork.
This is the greatest picture description ever!
Ow. Diet Coke up the nose hurts.