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Text Adventure Game Emulator #1

 
  

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Whisky Priestess
22:23 / 19.08.05
Ask if they are dancing.
 
 
nedrichards is confused
22:40 / 19.08.05
describe person.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
23:11 / 19.08.05
You turn around in the direction of the voice. You can't see anyone. The voice came from the North. Without really meaning to, you find yourself walking up the steps to see who it was that addressed you.

You are in the Reception area of the Dancing Bear Inn. To the North-West, there is a lift to take guests up to their rooms. Directly West is a door out to a small garden. The wall to the East has a couch in front of it, and next to the couch is a board advertising the hotel's current rates. Above the couch is a painting.

Immediately in front of you is a desk, behind which sits a very small man. He might even be called a homunculus. He is bald apart from some short, greying patches of hair on either side of his head. He has twinkling eyes and an impish, friendly smile.

"Asking questions always relaxes me", he says, as if this was a better reason for his question than the fact that he works in a hotel. "In fact, I sometimes think that my secret profession is that I'm a private investigator, a detective. I always enjoy finding out about people."

You ask him if is dancing. He shakes his head, looking puzzled. Then he smiles brightly.

"Oh, you mean like the name! Ha ha ha! No, I don't do the dancing. You want the Bar for that, they have shows there most evenings."
 
 
Tryphena Absent
23:24 / 19.08.05
Hit him in the temple and steal the painting.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
23:52 / 19.08.05
Belay that!
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
23:53 / 19.08.05
You are not in a Temple. You are in the Reception area of the Dancing Bear Inn.

You examine the painting. On closer examination it is actually a mural, painted directly onto the wall, of a white horse riding through some clouds. You cannot take the wall.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
00:19 / 20.08.05
Shoot yourself in the head.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
00:26 / 20.08.05
Change mind.

Say to man, "Is that a magic horse?"
 
 
Disco is My Class War
02:07 / 20.08.05
Say, "What can you tell me about that cute girl Maya who works in the kitchen? Oh and yeah, I'd like a room for the night? How much?"
 
 
Whisky Priestess
08:07 / 20.08.05
And then ask what films are showing on the in house cable.

'Adult' films.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
19:50 / 20.08.05
You pull out your pistol and point it at your own head.

"Whoah there!" cries out the man behind the desk. "Things can't be that bad, can they? I mean, our life is tough. The world is very abrasive. There's these abrasive beatings to be avoided everywhere you look! But it's not worth killing yourself over, is it?"

You nod in agreement, and put your gun away.

You ask the man behind the counter about Maya.

"I think she's on the right lines, learning to be a chef", he says. "It's an prestigious line of work, with a long and glorious tradition."
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
19:59 / 20.08.05
You ask the man behind the counter how much a room for the night would be.

"20 dollah for a standard room", he says. "And 30 dollah for a luxury room. The only film available to watch in the standard rooms is Maybe Baby starring Hugh Laurie, based on the novel Inconceivable by Ben Elton. A wide range of movies can be viewed in the luxury rooms, including adult movies such as Buttercup Does Her Entire Kingdom."
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
21:00 / 20.08.05
What about the horse?
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
21:11 / 20.08.05
"Oh yes! A wonderful artist friend of mine painted that. He claims he's seen a horse just like it, but I think it's inconceivable that they exist."
 
 
P. Horus Rhacoid
21:13 / 20.08.05
Order luxury room.
 
 
P. Horus Rhacoid
21:15 / 20.08.05
Also, mentally prepare self for hot date with Maya.
 
 
Triplets
21:31 / 20.08.05
Describe room. Examine room for stealables.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
22:06 / 20.08.05
You ask for a luxury room for one night. You give the man behind the counter 30 dollah, and he gives you a key with a fob bearing the number 23.

"It's on the second floor", he tells you.

You examine the room you are currently in. It is the Reception area of the Dancing Bear Inn. To the North-West, there is a lift to take guests up to their rooms. Directly West is a door out to a small garden. To the South is a small set of steps leading to the entrance of the Inn. The wall to the East has a couch in front of it, and next to the couch is a board advertising the hotel's current rates. Above the couch is a mural of a magic horse. To the North is a desk, behind which sits a very small man. The desk is made of polished oak. There are nothing to steal here.

You worry about the fact that you don’t know the current time, or the location of Club Twart.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
22:27 / 20.08.05
Go to Room no 23.

Via lift.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
22:35 / 20.08.05
The lift doors are currently shut.
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
22:44 / 20.08.05
Press button for lift while whistling 'Girl from Ipanema'.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
22:51 / 20.08.05
You walk over North-West so you are standing in front of the lift doors, an action that in a Text Adventure Game would normally require the command 'North-West' or 'go nw' or 'nw'. You notice a button next to the lift. You press the button. Machinery hums into life behind the lift doors as the lift begins to descend from the second floor.

"Dum-dee-dum, dee-dum dee-dum-dee-dum..."

'PING!'

The lift arrives at the ground floor. The lift doors slide open. There is a bellhop inside the lift.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
23:14 / 20.08.05
Flirt with the bellhop.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
23:22 / 20.08.05
And ask for the second floor. Sexily.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
23:47 / 20.08.05
"Hey there", you say, "Has anyone ever told you you look like Marilyn Monroe?"

The bellhop, who is a thin, very pale young man with thick black lines under his eyes, doesn't seem to hear you.

"Going up to the second floor?", you ask.

He continues to stare blanky into space. He is mumbling something. "mumble mumble mumble... death and glory... New Labour and Tory... Purgatory..."

'PING!'

The lift doors begin to close again.
 
 
grant
00:15 / 21.08.05
SE

Ask homunculus "club twart"

Ask homunculus "stables"

Inv
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
01:26 / 21.08.05
You turn away from the lift as the doors close, and head South-East back to the Reception area.

"Don't mind Pete, he's a little slow and he has his problems, but we're trying to give him a second chance", says the man behind the desk.

"Do you know the way to Club Twart?", you ask.

He frowns for a moment in concentration, and says:

"Club... Twart...? Oh yes, the place where all the clueless kids hang out these days! It's on Acacia Avenue, just opposite the restaurant where my painter friend and I often eat dinner and have deep philosophical conversations. Turn left out of the front door and follow the street that heads North-East, you can't miss it, unless you're a real moron. Which I'm sure is inconceivable!"

He smiles brightly at you.

"There wouldn't happen to be a stables round here, would there?"

"Hmmm... No, the only stables on this island closed down years ago - and anyway, that was on the other side of Death Mountain, near the South coast, and I wouldn't advise you go there, not if you're a man who likes to avoid danger!"

You thank him for his time.

You are carrying:

- a satchel
- a .45 calibre pistol, loaded with 6 bullets
- a .45 calibre clip containing 7 more bullets
- a digital camera
- the key to room 23 at the Dancing Bear Inn
- 100 dollah in crumpled non-sequential dollah notes
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
01:59 / 21.08.05
Ask man where I can buy some clothes that might impress Maya.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
02:03 / 21.08.05
Ask man if he knows where I can score some weed.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
02:05 / 21.08.05
Ask man if he finds me attractive.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
02:11 / 21.08.05
"I wouldn't know about such things anymore. But I grew up on the Upper East Side. And when I was ten years old, I was rich, I was an aristocrat. Riding around in taxis, surrounded by comfort, and all I thought about was art and music."
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
02:14 / 21.08.05
Suddenly, the phone behind the desk rings. The man answers it.

"Room service? Yes, of course ma'am, I'll bring you some right away."

He stands, bows slightly, apologises - "I'm afraid I have to go now!" - and leaves via a previously hidden door behind his desk, which locks itself shut after him.

You are alone.
 
 
D Terminator XXXIII
03:11 / 21.08.05
Visit Self-Awaria.
 
 
Evil Scientist
07:56 / 21.08.05
Pick up phone reciever.

Dial home phone number.

Leave message explaining current predicament, and requesting UN assistance.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
12:16 / 21.08.05
You don't know where Self-Awaria is.

You don't remember your home phone number, if indeed you have one.
 
  

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