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Post #1288 (isolation #600) » Wed Dec 02, 2020 6:24 pm
Postby Charles510 »
Bedroom Score: 0 Turns: 0
THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Infocom interactive fiction - a science fiction story
Copyright (c) 1984 by Infocom, Inc. All rights reserved.
Release 59 / Serial number 851108
You wake up. The room is spinning very gently round your head. Or at least it would be if you could see it which you can't.
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Post #1290 (isolation #601) » Wed Dec 02, 2020 6:43 pm
Postby Charles510 »
Bedroom Score: 0 Turns: 1
>turn on light
Good start to the day. Pity it's going to be the worst one of your life. The light is now on.
Bedroom, in the bed
The bedroom is a mess.
It is a small bedroom with a faded carpet and old wallpaper. There is a washbasin, a chair with a tatty dressing gown slung over it, and a window with the curtains drawn. Near the exit leading south is a phone.
There is a flathead screwdriver here. (outside the bed)
There is a toothbrush here. (outside the bed)
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Post #1294 (isolation #603) » Wed Dec 02, 2020 7:51 pm
Postby Charles510 »
Bedroom Score: 0 Turns: 4
>take toothbrush
You're certainly picking the tough tasks. The floor acts like a trampoline on an ice rink, or like something they've been working on for years at Disneyland.
>take screwdriver
It dances by you like a thing possessed.
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Post #1331 (isolation #621) » Tue Dec 15, 2020 4:04 pm
Postby Charles510 »
Dark Score: 25 Turns: 48
>wait
There's nothing you can taste, nothing you can see, nothing you can hear, nothing you can feel, nothing you can smell, you do not even know who you are.
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Post #1337 (isolation #624) » Wed Dec 16, 2020 9:22 pm
Postby Charles510 »
Dark Score: 25 Turns: 50
>smell
(darkness)
It does smell a bit. There's something pungent being waved under your nose. Your head begins to clear. You can make out a shadow moving in the dark.
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Post #1339 (isolation #625) » Wed Dec 16, 2020 9:33 pm
Postby Charles510 »
Dark Score: 25 Turns: 51
>smell
(darkness)
It does smell a bit. There's something pungent being waved under your nose. Your head begins to clear. You can make out a shadow moving in the dark.
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Post #1343 (isolation #627) » Wed Dec 16, 2020 10:13 pm
Postby Charles510 »
Vogon Hold Score: 33 Turns: 53
>Look at shadow
The shadow is vaguely Ford Prefect-shaped.
Vogon Hold
This is a squalid room filled with grubby mattresses, unwashed cups, and unidentifiable bits of smelly alien underwear. A door lies to port, and an airlock lies to starboard.
Along one wall is a tall dispensing machine.
In the corner is a glass case with a switch and a keyboard.
It looks like the glass case contains:
an atomic vector plotter
Ford removes the bottle of Santraginean Mineral Water which he's been waving under your nose. He tells you that you are aboard a Vogon spaceship, and gives you some peanuts.
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Post #1355 (isolation #632) » Wed Dec 23, 2020 7:30 am
Postby Charles510 »
Vogon Hold Score: 33 Turns: 56
>look
Vogon Hold
This is a squalid room filled with grubby mattresses, unwashed cups, and unidentifiable bits of smelly alien underwear. A door lies to port, and an airlock lies to starboard.
Ford Prefect is here.
Along one wall is a tall dispensing machine.
In the corner is a glass case with a switch and a keyboard.
It looks like the glass case contains:
an atomic vector plotter
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Post #1357 (isolation #633) » Wed Dec 23, 2020 8:08 am
Postby Charles510 »
Vogon Hold Score: 33 Turns: 57
>look at machine
The dispenser is tall, has a button at around eye-level, and says "Babel Fish" in large letters. Anything dispensed would probably come out the slot at around knee-level. It bears a small label which reads "Another fine product of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation."
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Post #1361 (isolation #635) » Wed Dec 23, 2020 8:54 am
Postby Charles510 »
Vogon Hold Score: 33 Turns: 58
>push dispenser button
A single babel fish shoots out of the slot. It sails across the room and through a small hole in the wall, just under a metal hook.
Ford yawns. "Matter transference always tires me out. I'm going to take a nap." He places something on top of his satchel. "If you have any questions, here's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (Footnote 14). Ford lowers his voice to a whisper. "I'm not supposed to tell you this, but you'll never be able to finish the game without consulting the Guide about lots of stuff." As he curls up in a corner and begins snoring, you pick up The Hitchhiker's Guide.
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Post #1367 (isolation #638) » Wed Dec 23, 2020 9:47 am
Postby Charles510 »
Vogon Hold Score: 33 Turns: 62
>examine room
Vogon Hold
This is a squalid room filled with grubby mattresses, unwashed cups, and unidentifiable bits of smelly alien underwear. A door lies to port, and an airlock lies to starboard.
There is a thing your aunt gave you which you don't know what it is here.
Ford is in the corner, snoring loudly.
Along one wall is a tall dispensing machine.
In the corner is a glass case with a switch and a keyboard.
It looks like the glass case contains:
an atomic vector plotter
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Post #1372 (isolation #640) » Wed Dec 23, 2020 5:26 pm
Postby Charles510 »
Vogon Hold Score: 33 Turns: 65
>look at thing aunt gave you
I don't know the word "gave".
>look at thing
Apart from a label on the bottom saying "Made in Ibiza" it furnishes you with no clue as to its purpose, if indeed it has one. You are surprised to see it because you thought you'd thrown it away. Like most gifts from your aunt, you've been trying to get rid of it for years.
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Post #1380 (isolation #644) » Mon Dec 28, 2020 3:17 pm
Postby Charles510 »
>push 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, vanishing through the grating of a hitherto unnoticed drain.
It is of course well known that careless talk costs lives, but the full scale of the problem is not always appreciated. For instance, at the exact moment you said "look at thing aunt gave you" a freak wormhole opened in the fabric of the space-time continuum and carried your words far far back in time across almost infinite reaches of space to a distant galaxy where strange and warlike beings were poised on the brink of frightful interstellar battle.
The two opposing leaders were meeting for the last time. A dreadful silence fell across the conference table as the commander of the Vl'Hurgs, resplendent in his black jewelled battle shorts, gazed levelly at the G'Gugvunt leader squatting opposite him in a cloud of green, sweet-smelling steam. As a million sleek and horribly beweaponed star cruisers poised to unleash electric death at his single word of command, the Vl'Hurg challenged his vile enemy to take back what it had said about his mother.
The creature stirred in its sickly broiling vapour, and at that very moment the words "look at thing aunt gave you" drifted across the conference table. Unfortunately, in the Vl'hurg tongue this was the most dreadful insult imaginable, and there was nothing for it but to wage terrible war for centuries. Eventually the error was detected, but over two hundred and fifty thousand worlds, their peoples and cultures perished in the holocaust.
You have destroyed most of a small galaxy. Please pick your words with greater care.
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Post #1381 (isolation #645) » Tue Jan 19, 2021 5:05 pm
Postby Charles510 »
Vogon Hold Score: 33 Turns: 68
>inventory
You have:
no tea
a thing your aunt gave you which you don't know what it is
a satchel
The Hitchhiker's Guide
an electronic Sub-Etha signaling device
a towel
a loose pile of junk mail
a toothbrush
a flathead screwdriver
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Post #1386 (isolation #648) » Mon Mar 22, 2021 9:02 pm
Postby Charles510 »
Bedroom Score: 0 Turns: 0
THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Infocom interactive fiction - a science fiction story
Copyright (c) 1984 by Infocom, Inc. All rights reserved.
Release 59 / Serial number 851108
You wake up. The room is spinning very gently round your head. Or at least it would be if you could see it which you can't.
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Post #1388 (isolation #649) » Wed Mar 24, 2021 3:46 am
Postby Charles510 »
Bedroom Score: 0 Turns: 1
>Turn on the light
Good start to the day. Pity it's going to be the worst one of your life. The light is now on.
Bedroom, in the bed
The bedroom is a mess.
It is a small bedroom with a faded carpet and old wallpaper. There is a washbasin, a chair with a tatty dressing gown slung over it, and a window with the curtains drawn. Near the exit leading south is a phone.
There is a flathead screwdriver here. (outside the bed)
There is a toothbrush here. (outside the bed)
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Post #1390 (isolation #650) » Sat Mar 27, 2021 2:42 am
Postby Charles510 »
In post 1389, Nancy Drew 39 wrote:How many turns do we get and can we take them in succession or only one at a time?
Take as many turns as you like. You can take them in succession or one at a time, however you like. You are the only one playing now so you may play whatever is good for you.
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Post #1393 (isolation #651) » Mon Mar 29, 2021 2:39 pm
Postby Charles510 »
Remember that this is a game written in 1984 that candle such complicated commands. Try simple two word commands. I'll translate this command for you into "get up"
Bedroom Score: 0 Turns: 2
>get up
Very difficult, but you manage it. The room is still spinning. It dips and sways a little.
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Post #1408 (isolation #659) » Thu Apr 01, 2021 10:03 pm
Postby Charles510 »
Bedroom Score: 0 Turns: 0
THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Infocom interactive fiction - a science fiction story
Copyright (c) 1984 by Infocom, Inc. All rights reserved.
Release 59 / Serial number 851108
You wake up. The room is spinning very gently round your head. Or at least it would be if you could see it which you can't.
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Post #1410 (isolation #660) » Fri Apr 02, 2021 5:22 am
Postby Charles510 »
Bedroom Score: 0 Turns: 1
>turn light on.
Good start to the day. Pity it's going to be the worst one of your life. The light is now on.
Bedroom, in the bed
The bedroom is a mess.
It is a small bedroom with a faded carpet and old wallpaper. There is a washbasin, a chair with a tatty dressing gown slung over it, and a window with the curtains drawn. Near the exit leading south is a phone.
There is a flathead screwdriver here. (outside the bed)
There is a toothbrush here. (outside the bed)