C:\> Run "Zork"_
ZORK I: The Great Underground Empire
Copyright © June 22, 1979, 2005, 2006, 200X Unfocom, Inc. All rights reserved.
Revision 69105 / Serial Number 63
There is a leaflet on the floor.
> take leaflet
Stolen.
> read leaflet
Welcome to the Zork page. In this space you will experience some of the most thrilling text action ever devised. It is a game of high skills and low cunning. In this adventure you will find some of the most dangerous creatures you've ever seen like e-
The rest of the leaflet has been torn. Eurg!!
> look
You are in a nondescript room of nondescript size. Exits are to the north, south, and west. Oh, and there's a Grue over there in the corner.
There is half a leaflet next to the Grue.
> north
You are in the kitchen. There are cupboards and a door that leads to the yard outside. On the counter is a butcher knife. Next to the knife is a small, light blue tea cup. You also notice a large, black stove in the corner, that is probably used for cooking stuff. You notice a can on the stove.
You wonder what a butcher knife, designed exclusively for the slicing and hacking of flesh, is doing in a kitchen which is noticably absent of any meat storage or preparation facilities. In fact, you notice that the knife is awfully shiny for a kitchen utensil. It looks as if it's never been used. It's unstained. Untainted. Pure. Righteous.
>take knife
You quickly grab the knife and stick it in your pants. You suddenly feel a strong sense of justice. Soon your knife's pure, shining blade will bite the flesh of the sinners.
> inv
You've got some clothes on, a stick of gum in your pocket, and a knife sticking into your leg. Ah. You suddenly feel a strong sense of mind-bending irony, as well as mind-bending agony.
> remove knife
Good call. The sensations of pain in your leg begin to recede. You're still bleeding, though.
> go to town
You arrive in the imaginary town of zabalabanazaz. However, you have an awful imagination, so zabalabanazaz lacks townspeople, stores, and robots to do manual labor. Your leg seems to be bleeding a little less now from the knife wound that you sustained by putting such a sharp blade in your pocket. You see an alley to the east and a shady looking man sitting nearby on a wooden bench.
> Talk to the shady looking man
The shady-looking man keeps his head lowered and a hat pulled over his face as he tells you that, in exchange for all of your possessions, he will let you win the game.
> Give shady looking man all of my possessions
The shady-looking man takes your possessions out of your hands. He then looks up and you realize he is a Grue. The shady looking Grue eats you.
> woohoo!
However, since you also technically died, you lose. Try again?
Death looks angry. "Stupid Unfocom..." he growls. "You try." You soon die, but as you have lasted longer than him, Death brings you back to life.
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