Gragin's Text Adventure

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Walking through the empty woods, you spy an old, broken down house in a clearing ahead of you.
It's a modest, white, two-story thing that seems to have been abandoned for some time. You can see the entire structure tilting slightly to the left, as if a nasty storm was on the verge of blowing it over.
You will need a place to sleep tonight, and for safety's sake you'd rather not do so under the stars. 
Considering the state of the place, you're going to have to figure out how to get inside first.

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Gragin's Text Adventure
Copyright 1999 Chris Maitsad
Release 2/ Serial Number 049328 / Inform v6.30 Library 6/11 S

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FRONT LAWN

You have arrived at the front yard of the house. A brown and withered lawn holds many secrets. There is nothing but darkness and dense foliage behind you. The Moon hangs silently over your head as you observe the area. The house, to the North, is barricaded from entry. Obvious exits are West, to the garden, and a path to the Northeast around the house.

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[RedGreenBlue]

check for actual cannibal, shia labeouf

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>check for actual cannibal, shia lebeouf

You can't see any such thing.

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[cosmo]

inspect lawn?

[ಠ_ಠ]

>inspect lawn?

That's not a verb I recognize.

[Type 'Help' to see a list of commands]

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[cosmo]

>help

[ಠ_ಠ]

>help

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COMMANDS:

Navigation: N,S,E,W,In,Out,U,D
Interaction: Take, Give, Push, Pull, Drop
Examine Item, Area: X or Examine
Show Surroundings: Look, L
Search: Search [Item] or [Area]
Wait: Wait, Z
To see Score type Score.
To see your inventory type i or Inventory.

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[cosmo]

examine

[ಠ_ಠ]

> examine

What did you want to examine?

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[crime gardevoir]

take lawn

[Pichi2214]

Inventory

[ಠ_ಠ]

>take lawn

You cannot take that.

>Inventory

You are carrying:
 cheap necklace
 lunchbox (closed)
 backpack (empty)
 butter knife

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[Pichi2214]

>examine lunchbox (maybe something is still on it) 
>examine necklace (is it important to us?)

[ಠ_ಠ]

>examine lunchbox

It's one of those old metal ones nobody uses anymore. There is a faded picture of Action Squid shooting a planet to smithereens on the lid. You can hear something rattling around inside when you shake it.

>examine necklace

It's mainly a string with colored beads threaded through it. A tag with the words "WESTCHESTER CHRISTIAN BIBLE STUDY" hangs off the front. You found this in your backpack.

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[cosmo]

examine lawn

[ಠ_ಠ]

>examine lawn

The lawn in front of the house is dry and dessicated. You can hear the leaves crunching beneath your feet, even if the darkness of your surroundings makes it hard to discern exactly what's there. You think you see shapes moving through the overgrown grass, although you can't be sure if that is something tangible or just the wind. 

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[Pichi2214]

>go Northeast around the house
once arrived there >look around to see what you can find

[ಠ_ಠ]

>go Northeast around the house.

I only understood you as far as "go North".

The house is barricaded from this side, and prevents entry.

>look around to see what you can find

I only understood you as far as "look".

FRONT LAWN

You have arrived at the front yard of the house. A brown and withered lawn holds many secrets. There is nothing but darkness and dense foliage behind you. The Moon hangs silently over your head as you observe the area. The house, to the North, is barricaded from entry. Obvious exits are West, to the garden, and a path to the Northeast around the house.

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[RedGreenBlue]

Go EAST.

[ಠ_ಠ]

> Go EAST.

You glance at the forest surrounding the clearing. It is far too thick and obscured in darkness for you to find your way back.
You cannot go East.

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[cosmo]

go west!

[ಠ_ಠ]

>go west!

You head West.

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GARDEN

A bit less dessicated than the front lawn, the garden is full of overgrown plants as tall as you. A sickly-sweet chemical smell, kind of like old antifreeze, permeates between various clusters of shrubs and wilted flowers. Despite the abundance of plant life, the garden is dead quiet, lacking any kind of movement or noise from the wind or chittering insects. You can just make out what you think is an old well in the center of the garden. The only way you can see out of here is to the East, from where you came.

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[cosmo]

examine well

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>examine well

The old well in the center of the garden appears at first glance to be a loose pile of stones in the shape of a circle, considering all of the grass growing in between the stones and their misshapen roundness. You can see a collapsed wooden beam on one side where presumably some kind of pulley mechanism one hung. The top of the well is currently covered by some wooden planks.

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[Pichi2214]

>east
>north
>east

(I hope I understand this correctly..  And it works like I think it does)

[ಠ_ಠ]

>east

FRONT LAWN

>north

The house is barricaded from this side, and prevents entry.

>east
You glance at the forest surrounding the clearing. It is far too thick and obscured in darkness for you to find your way back.

You cannot go East.

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[Pichi2214]

(Okay nevermind what I was trying to do) 

>west 
>take wooden planks

[ಠ_ಠ]

>west

GARDEN

>take wooden planks

You take a wooden planks.

A wooden planks is too large to carry.

You drop a wooden planks.

The well is uncovered, revealing a ladder leading downwards. You cannot see the bottom.

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[victorianflorist]

> Descend Ladder

[Pichi2214]

>down

[ಠ_ಠ]

>descend ladder
(go Down ladder)

You climb down the ladder, into

STONE FOYER

You arrive in what appears to be a crumbling foyer, with stone walls and floor. Whatever furniture was once here has crumbled into a rotting mess. Despite no apparent light source, you can clearly see two pathways out of here. There is a door to the West, and a doorway to the East.

>down

You do not have the tools necessary to dig through the stone floor.

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[Pichi2214]

>east

[ಠ_ಠ]

>east

DECREPIT HALL

You arrive in what appears to be a hallway connecting two different rooms. You can faintly make out different stone carvings of various animals lining the walls. Ahead of you is a large stone pedestal, on which sits a carving of a deer's head. Below the deer's head is an inscription. The exit North has collapsed and is nothing but rubble. You can see an exit West into a foyer.

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[Pichi2214]

>examine deer's head
>examine inscription

[ಠ_ಠ]

>examine deer's head

It appears to be a very worn stone carving of a deer's head. The right antlers have broken off. Its mouth is just slightly open, and you can see a piece of cloth hanging from it.

>examine inscription

You can just make out the inscription on the pedestal below the carving. It reads:

      Below my creatures seek,
      The One who c░▚▛▓

       hey
       if your actually real
       this will help:
       i packed you a big lunch
       ; )
      
      ▒▛▓▗&hose who come home again.

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[victorianflorist]

> snap off the deers antlers

[ಠ_ಠ]

>snap off the deers antlers

That's not a verb I recognize.

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[victorianflorist]

> Exit West

[ಠ_ಠ]

> Exit West

STONE FOYER

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[Pichi2214]

>east
>take cloth

[ಠ_ಠ]

>east

DECREPIT HALL

>take cloth

You attempt to take the cloth from the mouth of the deer's head carving. You pull on it and find that it's stuck in place. The cloth rips and half of it comes away in your hands.

You hear a thunk from above you.

You got a half a deer's tongue (cloth).

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[Pichi2214]

>examine ceiling
>score

[RedGreenBlue]

>examine big lunch

[ಠ_ಠ]

>examine ceiling

You can't see anything of note on the ceiling.

>score

You have so far scored 0 out of a possible 500, in 30 turns, earning you the Rank of Bumbler.

>examine big lunch
(the lunchbox)

It's one of those old metal ones nobody uses anymore. There is a faded picture of Action Squid shooting a planet to smithereens on the lid. You can hear something rattling around inside when you shake it.

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[Azure]

>Search Lunchbox

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>search lunchbox

As you attempt to search the lunchbox, you see it flicker like an image on a projector screen. It becomes translucent for a moment.

Suddenly, a ▓▞░ꦁ⡄falls from the lunchbox and lands on the floor.

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[Pichi2214]

>examine ▓▞░ꦁ⡄

[ಠ_ಠ]

>examine ▓▞░ꦁ⡄

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[Pichi2214]

>take ▓▞░ꦁ⡄
>west
>west

[ಠ_ಠ]

>take ▓▞░ꦁ⡄

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     There was a man sitting across from your bed. You weren't used to that. You weren't used to anyone looking at you, really. You could hear him talking but you couldn't make out the words. Your thoughts, your perception, they were moving so slowly. You could feel time passing but couldn't react to it. It was as if you were sitting in the back of your own mind, watching through a fogged window into the world outside.
     The man moved his fingers in front of your face. Yes. Okay. They were fingers. He was trying to judge something. You could tell. What did he want you to do?
Slowly, so slowly it was like crawling out of tar, you began to respond to his gestures. You looked in the directions he pointed. He asked you a question, you think it was a question, you couldn't understand but your mouth and your throat pushed the words out regardless, before your mind could really anticipate them. 
     Focus. Focus. You willed yourself to focus, to push through this noxious haze your mind was buried in. The world got brighter, and then more defined. Your head began to hurt, a dull, throbbing ache that was nevertheless all-encompassing, robbing your focus for a while until you gathered the will to push past it. 
Your mind came back together in bits and pieces until there was enough of it there to begin to make sense of what was going on. What was happening.
You realized you could understand what the man was saying, now.
     "...need you with me right now, can you hear me?"
      His voice was unexpectedly more sharp than the world around him, and cut through the fog like a knife. You finally retained enough of yourself to be able to respond, you thought, so you cleared your throat and asked, with a voice hoarse from disuse:
      "What?"


[All command limitations temporarily suspended]

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