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- S001: "BSE"
- S002: "
- An Interactive Epidemic
- Copyright (c) 1996 by Chris Smith.
- Type 'help' for...er...help.
- Type 'quotes on/off' to toggle box quotations, in case they obscure text.
- "
- S003: "960429"
- S004: "6/1"
- S005: "a"
- S006: "You can't go that way."
- S007: "the"
- S008: "the"
- S009: "the"
- S010: "the"
- S011: "the"
- S012: "the"
- S013: "the"
- S014: "the"
- S015: "the"
- S016: "the"
- S017: "the"
- S018: "the"
- S019: "Darkness"
- S020: "It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing."
- S021: "As good-looking as ever."
- S022: "Nameless item"
- S023: "your former self"
- S024: "A fat, capacious briefcase, with plenty of space for notebook computers,
- personal organisers and other useless gimmicks."
- S025: "This single-roomed inn is dominated by a long bar, topped with perfectly
- polished wood. The shelves behind the bar are stacked to breaking point with
- sparkling glasses and inviting bottles. A single beer pump protrudes forlornly
- from the bar at one end, but it is, unfortunately, un-manned, so you will have
- to cope without a drink. A well-oiled wooden door leads south-east into the
- street.
-
- Old Tom, Old Dick, and Old Harry sit around the beer pump, whispering
- conspiratorially."
- S026: "A hunched old man in a tweed jacket and flat cap, smoking his pipe and
- supping his pint."
- S027: "A hunched old man in a tweed jacket and almost flat cap, smoking his
- pint and supping his pipe."
- S028: "The sealed can declares itself as:
-
- >>SIKSTONS' EXTREMELY PECULIAR<<"
- S029: "The open and apparently empty can declares itself as:
-
- >>SIKSTONS' EXTREMELY PECULIAR<<"
- S030: "an"
- S031: "A small, complex brass key with a label tied to it."
- S032: "A grubby piece of paper with a message scrawled on it:
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- Red Chevette: This Case opens here."
- S033: "the road."
- S034: "The gate is covered in several layers of peeling white gloss. Nailed to
- the middle bar is a wooden notice announcing "Fliglot Farm - No Entry"."
- S035: "The pub's sign depicts a light brown calf in a lush meadow, the grass
- growing up around it and seeming to merge with it's feet. As you stare at it
- the grass seems to wave in the breeze as the sign swings, but you blink and the
- illusion disappears."
- S036: "Dented from countless brushes with marauding cattle, your car looks
- three times its age. In fact it is fitted out with all mod cons, including an
- electric sunroof, in-car CD player, and remote locking system. (The latter
- comes in very useful when escaping from marauding cattle.)"
- S037: "Your car, a battered blue Volvo estate, is slewed across the grass
- verge, two wheels in the ditch."
- S038: "A spacious boot, almost big enough to hold a marauding bullock."
- S039: "The statutory mantle worn by psychiatrists and mad laboratory
- technicians. It has two conveniently large pockets."
- S040: "Your key fob takes the form of a small model bull with a
- disproportionately large ring through its nose. Wound around the ring are your
- house and car keys, and a few other useful items."
- S041: "A beautiful Yorkshire garden, full of mouth-watering fruits such as
- parsnips, marrows and broccoli. This is more a vegetable garden than anything
- else, but the border beds have been liberally scattered with a variety of hardy
- perennials. To the east you can see a small unthreatening farmer's cottage."
- S042: "You can't get inside the house."
- S043: "The six-pronged garden fork seems to be quite expensive. The handle is
- made of some sort of exotic, dark wood, and just below the triangular hand-hold
- there is a small silver plaque, inscribed simply with a single ornamented
- letter D."
- S044: "A garden fork has been rammed disrespectfully into a steaming compost
- heap in one corner of the garden."
- S045: "The odd prickly bush or two - you've never really found gardening
- interesting."
- S046: "The generator consists of a panel on the gun's handle. It has a small
- battery compartment and three buttons - blue, green, and yellow."
- S047: "A small, round, lithium watch-battery, in its first flush of youth."
- S048: "A round button, just waiting to be pressed."
- S049: "He never bothers to prosecute trespassers: he has far better methods."
- S050: "This wide rectangle of concrete is littered with the chaotic fallout of
- everyday dairy farming. And its brown! The stark windows of the farmhouse stare
- accusingly down into the yard from the north, and, to the east, the roof of the
- main barn is outlined against the rising sun."
- S051: "the farmyard."
- S052: "The leaflet has been torn, mud-bespattered, and generally maltreated,
- and as such you can make out very little, but it seems to cover topics as wide
- ranging as sheep varieties, weather forecasting and the country code. It also
- includes a badly typeset advert for a badly typeset computer game called 'LSE'
- by Shirc Shimt."
- S053: "A group of ordinary farmyard chickens, including the obligatory cockerel
- with show-off red comb."
- S054: "Most of the space in the east end of the farms high stone barn is taken
- up by a huge haystack of rectangular bales, each of which is held together with
- tough, plastic twine. Around the double doors rusty farm equipment, almost
- inevitably infected with a potent range of bacteria, microbes, protozoa and
- agriculture ministers, lies derelict and unused."
- S055: "The haystack is in the way!"
- S056: "the main barn."
- S057: "A red and white tractor is parked next to the haystack."
- S058: "The tractor was presumably new once (most things were), but its paint
- has started to peel off, with bubbles of rust forming all over the bodywork.
- The makers mark on the side reads simply 'Case International'."
- S059: "The tractor's cabin roof, about as boring as they come."
- S060: "A stack of hay, towering vertically upwards. Half-way up, just out of
- reach, there is a small ledge."
- S061: "an"
- S062: "Sitting on the tractor's seat is a beige envelope."
- S063: "A post-card showing a rolling vista of Yorkshire countryside, taken from
- Skebdale Pike. A few unintelligible notes and messages have been scrawled on
- the back in slightly smudged fountain pen:
-
- message to red-chevette the cows are flying you will find guidance from the
- circle that blocks your way follow the name of satan through the twisting way
- he has joined with the animals the devil is daisy, daisy is Denzil destroy it
- you will find the proof on the border of sleep you must remember to use silver
- bullets"
- S064: "You have to stoop on this tiny ledge in the side of the haystack,
- cunningly roofed over with bales. Your vertigo quickly kicks in and the barn
- floor seems to be a million miles away: downwards.
-
- A thin dark passage leads westwards into the bales."
- S065: "Thin, twisting passages lead off in all directions through the
- haystack."
- S066: "I'd get out of here if I was you."
- S067: "A fallen hay bale blocks your way. I'm afraid this is a dead end."
- S068: "There's only one way out, and that's where you came from."
- S069: "This room is Gothic horror at its best. Dry, wooden torches burn
- brightly in their rusty iron brackets, sending a flickering orange light
- flashing around the high, vaulted stone rafters and dull granite flagstones.
- The walls are daubed with unsightly scenes of scarlet terror and cruelty, and,
- at the centre of this hexagonal cathedral of doom, a gigantic inverted cross
- hangs in space, suspended by a criss-crossing web of thin, spider-like ropes
- which lead ever upwards into the enormous arched roof. Sinister shadows are
- cast onto the floor from the grotesque, twisted statuettes which stand on their
- dark pedestals, seeming to writhe in the torchlight. Where the hell is this
- place...
-
- Any moment now you expect a nice man with horns and hooves to jump from the
- shadows and discuss the afterlife, but, fortunately, there seem to be none of
- those in today."
- S070: "It depicts simply the head of a cow - but no ordinary heifer. Its ears
- are long and pointed, its eyes narrow, and its nostrils wide and flaring-red.
- The mouth is half-open in a Satanic grin, exposing double rows of carnivorous
- teeth. You dread to look for fear of being ensnared in the deep, swirling,
- whirling eyes..."
- S071: "It's over-riding feature is that it is the wrong way up. However, just
- for the record, it is made from two gigantic oak beams held together by two
- enormously thick selotape straps."
- S072: "The farm's hallway serves its purpose well. In other words, its the way
- in. It leads up to a dark staircase, the northern end flanked by two low,
- wooden doorframes. Along the west wall, there is a row of three or four wooden
- pegs, underneath which is a delapidated welly rack."
- S073: "You don't want to disturb the inhabitants privacy too much, and besides,
- your scared of the dark."
- S074: "You don't want to disturb the inhabitants privacy too much, and besides,
- your scared of the dark."
- S075: "the farm hallway."
- S076: "A bright yellow floppy sou'wester hangs from one of the pegs, clashing
- badly with the corridor's decor."
- S077: "The sou'wester is dazzlingly yellow. Glowingly mustard-hued, no less."
- S078: "A welly rack, made out of tough plastic-coated wire, screwed firmly into
- the wall about a foot from the floor."
- S079: "Built into the west wall under the pegs is an electric socket."
- S080: "The farmhouse's lounge closely resembles a bomb site. An old sofa,
- covered in ragged blankets and thin cushions, is positioned opposite a large TV
- and a wide, open fireplace. The window, hung with clashing flowery curtains,
- faces out onto the farmyard. A door in the east wall leads out to the hall."
- S081: "the lounge."
- S082: "The rug is even thicker than an agriculture minister."
- S083: "Nothing but a square, boring trapdoor. There is no handle, only a row of
- six small holes along one edge."
- S084: "A dark staircase leads downwards from the open trapdoor."
- S085: "There is a small trapdoor in front of the fireplace."
- S086: "Painted in an uninspiring shade of pastel cream-gunk, the farmhouse
- kitchen has evolved over time into a mixture of modern and ancient appliances
- jumbled against the walls. Decorated with stains ranging from champagne to
- tomato ketchup, the ceiling has obviously seen country life in all its glory."
- S087: "The only way out is back west into the lounge."
- S088: "Sitting on a table is a bright blue electric kettle."
- S089: "A single rubber glove lies discarded upon the draining board."
- S090: "A white rubber glove, turned inside out. The insides are stained by
- leakages and a slow build up of dirt."
- S091: "Hot, wet, and steamy."
- S092: "This low, earth-hewn passage is cramped and dirty. Held up by crude
- wooden props, it looks none too stable. The tunnel is quite short, only about
- twenty metres in length. At the south-east end is the short stone staircase
- which leads up to the trapdoor, while to the north-west is an enormous door."
- S093: "An enormous, circular door, no doubt made of some extremely unlikely
- space age metal which can only be cut using a knife blade forged in the core of
- a red giant. Or something like that. There, right in the centre, is one of
- those lock-cum-handle thingummybobs that you get on all good bank vaults."
- S094: "The enormous door is more firmly shut than the main air-lock on Space
- Shuttle Paranoia."
- S095: "The enormous door hangs invitingly but threateningly open."
- S096: "Z"
- S097: "S"
- S098: "L"
- S099: "W"
- S100: "I"
- S101: "N"
- S102: "D"
- S103: "E"
- S104: "Z"
- S105: "S"
- S106: "L"
- S107: "W"
- S108: "I"
- S109: "N"
- S110: "D"
- S111: "E"
- S112: "A shining white laboratory decked out with rows of pristine benches and
- tables. Shelves full of ridiculous sounding biochemicals line the walls. The
- room is windowless and lit only by fluorescent bulbs on the ceiling.
-
- You can leave by the door to the south."
- S113: "A wooden pinboard on one wall is covered in clippings from various
- respected publications."
- S114: "You can't have a proper adventure game these days without some special
- sci-fi gadget. In this case it resembles a microwave oven. It also sports a row
- of LEDs so it can flash them back and forth as it speaks in its predictably
- sarcastic monotone. Whoever built this one was well au fait with current trends
- and even painted a smiley face on the speaker. Lovely."
- S115: "A dark grey light-sensing pad on one side of the gadget."
- S116: "A beautifully styled black handset with an invitingly red button in the
- middle. A small panel on the back allows you to change the battery."
- S117: "A small, round, lithium watch-battery, charred almost out of recognition
- and presumably run-down."
- S118: "Your instructions from head office, scribbled untidily and faxed to you
- without regard for legibility. Peering at the note you can only make out a few
- words:
-
- Reference: DCK 817S
- Operation: Red-Chevette
-
- Task: Agent 398-MUGWUG reports serious epidemic risk in Skebdale region of
- Yorkshire. Agent claims cross-over risk of BSE without beef consumption. Use
- operation codeword to gain contact, he will be lying low in disguise.
-
- If possible also investigate allegations of widespread devil worship in
- Skebdale area. Agent reports possible links."
- S119: "some"
- S120: "They're big, black, and horrible."
- S121: "I never saw a Purple Cow,"
- S122: " I never hope to see one;"
- S123: "But I can tell you, anyhow,"
- S124: " I'd rather see than be one!"
- S125: ""
- S126: "-- Gelett Burgess"
- S127: ""When I am dead, I hope it may be said:"
- S128: "'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'""
- S129: ""
- S130: "-- Hilaire Belloc"
- S131: "By Thor!...By Odin!...By Gum..."
- S132: ""
- S133: "-- from Asterix and the Normans"
- S134: "So that's what hay looks like."
- S135: ""
- S136: "-- Queen Mary"
- S137: "Real people, as solid and ruddy and calm,"
- S138: "As a London bus in the rain!"
- S139: ""
- S140: "-- Wendy Cope (Pastoral)"
- S141: "Ah, yes! I wrote the 'Purple Cow' -"
- S142: " I'm sorry, now, I wrote it!"
- S143: "But I can tell you anyhow,"
- S144: " I'll kill you if you quote it!"
- S145: ""
- S146: "-- Gelett Burgess"
- S147: "The History of Skebdale"
- S148: "The Geographical Headache"
- S149: "Founding Fathers"
- S150: "A Harrowing Tale"
- S151: "Flower Power"
- S152: "Dissolving Monks"
- S153: "The Avalanche of Sheep"
- S154: "A Medical Report on BSE"
- S155: "Guidance"
- S156: "Information"
- S157: "Credits"
- S158: "Legalities"
- S159: "History of Skebdale up to 1650 - a Rough Guide
-
- The Formation of Skebdale
- Early History
- The Harrowing of the North
- The Wars of the Roses
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- The Civil War"
- S160: "You have entered the misinformation superhighway...
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- Misguidance
- Misinformation
- Discredits
- Illegalities
- "
- S161: "read"
- S162: "apply 'ofclass' for"
- S163: ""name""
- S164: ""create""
- S165: ""recreate""
- S166: ""destroy""
- S167: ""remaining""
- S168: ""copy""
- S169: ""call""
- S170: ""print""
- S171: ""print_to_array""
- S172: ""before""
- S173: ""after""
- S174: ""life""
- S175: ""n_to/door_to""
- S176: ""s_to/when_closed/when_off""
- S177: ""e_to/with_key""
- S178: ""w_to/door_dir""
- S179: ""ne_to/react_before""
- S180: ""se_to/add_to_scope""
- S181: ""nw_to/react_after""
- S182: ""sw_to/list_together""
- S183: ""u_to/invent""
- S184: ""d_to/plural""
- S185: ""in_to/grammar""
- S186: ""out_to/orders""
- S187: ""initial/when_open/when_on""
- S188: ""description""
- S189: ""describe""
- S190: ""article""
- S191: ""cant_go""
- S192: ""found_in""
- S193: ""time_left""
- S194: ""number""
- S195: ""time_out/daemon""
- S196: ""each_turn""
- S197: ""capacity""
- S198: ""short_name""
- S199: ""parse_name""
- S200: ""liquid""
- S201: ""move_name""
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