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THE FOLLOWING IS A SAMPLE OPENING SCRIPT OF THE WINNING GAME
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(Copyright 1986 by Douglas A. Asherman)
C>RUN ALICE
The Adventures of Alice
Who
Went Through the Looking-Glass
And
Came Back
Though Not Much Changed
Based on characters created by Lewis Carroll
Game and Text Copyright 1986 D.A. Asherman
Initializing data, please wait (should take 1 minute)...
You've woken up to a fine, fine morning. The sun shines,
the birds sing, and you feel wonderful. Your cat, Dinah,
greets you at your bedroom door. You see that her kittens
follow her lovingly, and you feel that nothing could be finer
than to be greeted by Dinah in the morning.
There is, however, a spectre on the horizon. Today is the
day for your mathematics lesson. Of course, you could plead
illness, but that would ruin your opportunity to go out and
enjoy the rest of the day. You get dressed and go downstairs,
ruminating on how you could possibly skip your mathematics
lesson and still be able to enjoy the rest of the day.
"There must be some solution," you think, "some way to
elude my tutor and go out to play." If you lived far in the
future instead of in A.D. 1865, we would say that you suffered
from a malady called "female math anxiety." But as you are
only a little girl, and as you DO live in 1865, we can only
say that you haven't studied.
Ah, well . . . . perhaps there is some way to avoid your
imminent academic embarrassment . . .perhaps. Perhaps it's
somewhere in the house.
You are standing on the west side of the fireplace in the
drawing room of your house. The chairs here are made of
nicely polished wood, and the mantle over the hearth is very
well kept up. Everything, in fact, is exactly as it should
be. The sun is shining, birds are singing, and you feel that
today of all days, nothing could possibly go wrong.
<< Drawing Room >>
There is a ball of yarn lying on the floor here
What Now? EXAMINE YARN
The ball of yarn seems to be incredibly tangled. In fact, it
seems to have gotten tangled into the rug itself!
<< Drawing Room >>
There is a ball of yarn lying on the floor here
What Now? PULL YARN
The yarn untangles easily....perhaps a bit too easily.
You are standing in an alcove. To the south is the west side
of the drawing room. Your father says that standing in this
alcove puts you exactly north of the west side of the
fireplace. You think you understand what he means, but have
never really taken the time to ask.
<< Alcove >>
Your nanny is standing here.
What Now? SOUTH
<< Drawing Room >>
There is a ball of yarn lying on the floor here
What Now? EAST
You are standing on the east side of the fireplace in the
drawing room of your house. The sun is shining in through all
of the windows, even through the little stained-glass window
in the southern door. Once again, you feel that everything is
as it should be. You can't decide, however, whether to go out
and play or to prepare for your Mathematics lessons.
<< Drawing Room >>
There is a lovely Swiss clock on the mantelpiece
What Now? EXAMINE CLOCK
The clock, although obviously a fine piece of craftsmanship,
seems to be telling the wrong time.
<< Drawing Room >>
There is a lovely Swiss clock on the mantelpiece
What Now?
.
.
.
. [portion omitted]
.
.
.
You are sitting down in front of the fireplace in the drawing
room of your house. You feel as if you've fallen. "But" you
think "that is ridiculous. One must have been up somewhere to
have fallen down, and as I've not been up I can't possibly
have fallen down." You think that this is good logic, but
still make a mental note to ask you mathematics tutor, Mr.
Dodgson, about it. Suddenly you notice that the southern door
(the one with the lovely little stained-glass window in it) is
open.
<< Drawing Room >>
There is an old umbrella here
What Now? OPEN UMBRELLA
The umbrella is now open.
<< Drawing Room >>
There is an old umbrella here
There is a small dagger here. (In the umbrella)
There is a small silver key here. (In the umbrella)
What Now? TAKE ALL
The umbrella won't budge.
You are now carrying the dagger.
You are now carrying the key.
<< Drawing Room >>
There is an old umbrella here
What Now? SOUTH
You are in the garden. The sunlight out here lends a radiance
to all of the flowers and plants. Even the forest on both
sides of the garden is..... "Wait," you think. "There never
used to be a forest on the east and west sides of the garden.
In fact I'm quite sure that the Finchley-Smythes lived to the
east of us, and the Hatton-Carrolls to the west. Hmmm..."
Stranger still is the fact that there is a wall to the south
where you could've sworn there was a path down to the river.
<< Garden >>
There is a musical instrument case here.
There is an unclimbable wall at the south end of the garden
What Now? . . . . . .