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Post Post #1288 (isolation #600) » Wed Dec 02, 2020 6:24 pm

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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.

It is pitch black.

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Post Post #1290 (isolation #601) » Wed Dec 02, 2020 6:43 pm

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>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 Post #1292 (isolation #602) » Wed Dec 02, 2020 7:42 pm

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>stand up
Very difficult, but you manage it. The room is still spinning. It dips and sways a little.

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Post Post #1294 (isolation #603) » Wed Dec 02, 2020 7:51 pm

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>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 Post #1296 (isolation #604) » Wed Dec 02, 2020 9:52 pm

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>go S
You miss the doorway by a good eighteen inches. The wall jostles you rather rudely.

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Post Post #1298 (isolation #605) » Wed Dec 02, 2020 10:15 pm

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>find doorway
I don't know the word "doorway".

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Post Post #1300 (isolation #606) » Wed Dec 02, 2020 10:32 pm

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>find exit
You used the word "exit" in a way that I don't understand.

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Post Post #1302 (isolation #607) » Wed Dec 02, 2020 10:48 pm

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>find door
You figure it out!

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Post Post #1304 (isolation #608) » Fri Dec 04, 2020 5:17 am

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>open door
It is already open.

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Post Post #1306 (isolation #609) » Fri Dec 04, 2020 10:48 am

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>exit S
You used the word "s" in a way that I don't understand.

>S
You miss the doorway by a good eighteen inches. The wall jostles you rather rudely.

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Post Post #1308 (isolation #610) » Fri Dec 04, 2020 3:17 pm

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>Go through door
Did you have any particular direction in mind?

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Post Post #1310 (isolation #611) » Fri Dec 04, 2020 4:46 pm

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>Go s through door
You used the word "s" in a way that I don't understand.

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Post Post #1313 (isolation #612) » Fri Dec 04, 2020 7:55 pm

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>go out door
Did you have any particular direction in mind?

>leave house
Did you have any particular direction in mind?

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Post Post #1315 (isolation #613) » Fri Dec 04, 2020 8:00 pm

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>Exit S
You used the word "s" in a way that I don't understand.

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Post Post #1317 (isolation #614) » Mon Dec 07, 2020 6:05 am

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>Take Gown
Luckily, this is large enough for you to get hold of. You notice something in the pocket.

>Wear Gown
You are now wearing your gown.

>look in pockets
Opening your gown reveals a thing your aunt gave you which you don't know what it is, a buffered analgesic, and pocket fluff.

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Post Post #1319 (isolation #615) » Mon Dec 07, 2020 6:08 am

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>Take Analgesic
You swallow the tablet. After a few seconds the room begins to calm down and behave in an orderly manner. Your terrible headache goes.

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Post Post #1321 (isolation #616) » Mon Dec 07, 2020 4:27 pm

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Aspirin is a synonym for the analgesic
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Post Post #1324 (isolation #617) » Mon Dec 14, 2020 8:02 am

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>restore inthedark
Ok.

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Post Post #1325 (isolation #618) » Mon Dec 14, 2020 8:54 am

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>look
Dark
You can see nothing, feel nothing, hear nothing, taste nothing, smell nothing, and are not entirely certain who you are.

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Post Post #1327 (isolation #619) » Mon Dec 14, 2020 9:06 am

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This is right after you hitchhike for the first time.
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Post Post #1329 (isolation #620) » Mon Dec 14, 2020 9:10 am

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>smell
(darkness)
You can hear nothing, smell nothing, taste nothing, see nothing, feel nothing, and are not even certain who you are.

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Post Post #1331 (isolation #621) » Tue Dec 15, 2020 4:04 pm

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>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 Post #1333 (isolation #622) » Wed Dec 16, 2020 5:45 am

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>Turn on senses
I don't know the word "senses".

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Post Post #1335 (isolation #623) » Wed Dec 16, 2020 1:54 pm

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>smell
(darkness)
There's nothing you can taste, nothing you can see, nothing you can hear, nothing you can feel, you do not even know who you are.

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Post Post #1337 (isolation #624) » Wed Dec 16, 2020 9:22 pm

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>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 Post #1339 (isolation #625) » Wed Dec 16, 2020 9:33 pm

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>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 Post #1341 (isolation #626) » Wed Dec 16, 2020 10:03 pm

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>look
Dark
There's nothing you can taste, nothing you can see, nothing you can hear, nothing you can feel, you do not even know who you are.

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Post Post #1343 (isolation #627) » Wed Dec 16, 2020 10:13 pm

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>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 Post #1345 (isolation #628) » Thu Dec 17, 2020 9:02 am

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>save vogonhold
Ok.

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Post Post #1348 (isolation #629) » Fri Dec 18, 2020 7:27 am

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>hug Ford
I don't know the word "hug".

>eat peanuts
You feel stronger as the peanuts replace some of the protein you lost in the matter transference beam.

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Post Post #1350 (isolation #630) » Fri Dec 18, 2020 9:44 am

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This is a difficult game. I bet you guys can figure out how to win!
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Post Post #1353 (isolation #631) » Tue Dec 22, 2020 6:18 pm

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>south
You can't go that way.

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Post Post #1355 (isolation #632) » Wed Dec 23, 2020 7:30 am

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>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 Post #1357 (isolation #633) » Wed Dec 23, 2020 8:08 am

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>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 Post #1359 (isolation #634) » Wed Dec 23, 2020 8:50 am

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>push button
Which button do you mean, the dispenser button, the red button, or the green button?

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Post Post #1361 (isolation #635) » Wed Dec 23, 2020 8:54 am

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>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 Post #1363 (isolation #636) » Wed Dec 23, 2020 9:09 am

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>take satchel
Taken.

>look in satchel
You can't. It's not yours. It's Ford's and it's private.

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Post Post #1365 (isolation #637) » Wed Dec 23, 2020 9:37 am

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>take off gown
Okay, you're no longer wearing your gown.

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Post Post #1367 (isolation #638) » Wed Dec 23, 2020 9:47 am

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>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 Post #1370 (isolation #639) » Wed Dec 23, 2020 3:12 pm

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>look at keyboard
You see nothing special about the keyboard.

>hang gown on hook
The gown is now hanging from the hook, covering a tiny hole.

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Post Post #1372 (isolation #640) » Wed Dec 23, 2020 5:26 pm

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>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 Post #1374 (isolation #641) » Wed Dec 23, 2020 6:00 pm

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>type vogon
That sentence isn't one I recognise.

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Post Post #1376 (isolation #642) » Wed Dec 23, 2020 6:03 pm

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>use keyboard
I don't know the word "use".

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Post Post #1378 (isolation #643) » Thu Dec 24, 2020 4:25 am

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>take thing
Taken.

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Post Post #1380 (isolation #644) » Mon Dec 28, 2020 3:17 pm

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>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 Post #1381 (isolation #645) » Tue Jan 19, 2021 5:05 pm

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>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 Post #1382 (isolation #646) » Sun Mar 21, 2021 6:29 pm

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Is anyone still interested in playing or should I lock the thread?
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Post Post #1384 (isolation #647) » Mon Mar 22, 2021 8:49 pm

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Hi Nancy, Would you like to play from the current point in the Vogon Hold, or restart back to the beginning?
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Post Post #1386 (isolation #648) » Mon Mar 22, 2021 9:02 pm

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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.

It is pitch black.

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Post Post #1388 (isolation #649) » Wed Mar 24, 2021 3:46 am

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>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.

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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 Post #1390 (isolation #650) » Sat Mar 27, 2021 2:42 am

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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 Post #1393 (isolation #651) » Mon Mar 29, 2021 2:39 pm

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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"

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>get up
Very difficult, but you manage it. The room is still spinning. It dips and sways a little.

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Post Post #1395 (isolation #652) » Mon Mar 29, 2021 6:12 pm

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>go to chair
That's not important; leave it alone.

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Post Post #1397 (isolation #653) » Mon Mar 29, 2021 7:18 pm

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>Put on dressing gown
You're not holding your gown.

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Post Post #1399 (isolation #654) » Tue Mar 30, 2021 4:24 am

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The command to see what you are holding is INVENTORY.

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>inventory
You have:
a splitting headache
no tea

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Post Post #1401 (isolation #655) » Wed Mar 31, 2021 6:30 pm

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>look in pocket
It's hard to open or close the pocket unless you're wearing the gown.

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Post Post #1403 (isolation #656) » Thu Apr 01, 2021 4:52 am

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I'm just typing things into the actual game and copy pasting the results back into the thread here. If you want to start again you can type RESTART.
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Post Post #1405 (isolation #657) » Thu Apr 01, 2021 5:08 am

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The problem is that you are saying things like "No, I wanted to find out what’s in the pocket(s) of the dressing gown."

The game only understands simple commands like "OPEN POCKET"

So I was trying to translate for you. Maybe it's better if I only type exactly what you said?
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Post Post #1407 (isolation #658) » Thu Apr 01, 2021 10:02 pm

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Ok, we start again and I'll type exactly what you say.
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Post Post #1408 (isolation #659) » Thu Apr 01, 2021 10:03 pm

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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.

It is pitch black.

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Post Post #1410 (isolation #660) » Fri Apr 02, 2021 5:22 am

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>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)

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Post Post #1412 (isolation #661) » Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:03 am

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Let's start with examine gown.

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>examine gown
The dressing gown is faded and battered, and is clearly a garment which has seen better decades. It has a pocket which is closed, and a small loop at the back of the collar.

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Post Post #1414 (isolation #662) » Mon Apr 05, 2021 6:29 am

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>check pocket
I don't know the word "check".

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Post Post #1415 (isolation #663) » Wed Apr 21, 2021 10:51 am

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Thanks evevryone for playing, i'm calling it game over. So long and thanks for all the fish!
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