those damn grues
I had planned on doing plenty of blogging, tonight, but I got sidetracked.
See, I was on Google looking for something and suddenly I found myself in the kitchen of a white house, holding a sack that contained a clove of garlic.
There was a passage to the west and a dark staircase to the east. I was daring and tried the staircase.
I've got to fight my way out of a chasm now. Back later.
If I don't get eaten by a grue, that is.
Update for Alex: [Sorry, here's the link to the game]
Comments
Boy, does that bring back memories!
Posted by: Ith | July 18, 2003 10:18 PM
holy crap she's a mudder too!
www.sojourn3.org
Posted by: Collins | July 18, 2003 10:57 PM
Watch out for the little twisty passages.
Posted by: Thlayli | July 18, 2003 11:50 PM
Zork is love.
Posted by: Kevin | July 18, 2003 11:52 PM
No, Kevin. Zork is God.
Well, and maybe love, too.
Michele, you didn't eat that sandwich already, did you?
Posted by: Angie Schultz | July 19, 2003 01:04 AM
Plugh
Posted by: Laurence Simon | July 19, 2003 01:21 AM
Where's the link, dammit?!?!?!?
Posted by: Alex Knapp | July 19, 2003 03:17 AM
Michele, for the love of God, DON'T GO UP THE STAIRCASE!!!!
Posted by: Curt | July 19, 2003 09:13 AM
Plugh
Shades of Advent/Adventure/Colossal Cave, or whatver it was called back then. It always asked when you said "kill thing" with "With what, your bare hands?" Turned out that the answer to that question was YES when facing the green dragon.
"Congratulations, you've just killed a fierce green dragon with your bare hands. Amazing, isn't it?"
And
"You are inside a building, a well house for a large spring. "
One other thing: XYZZY.
Posted by: duke nukem | July 19, 2003 09:59 AM
Damn! I read this post before Michele added the link. I didn't know she was talking about an on-line version; I thought she'd just unearthed her old Infocom disks.
The leaflet in the mailbox says that someone translated Zork into Fortran IV. That man is a Geek God.
Hello, Sailor!
Posted by: Angie Schultz | July 19, 2003 11:30 AM
The original "adventure" - collossal cave - WAS written in Fortran IV. I use to have a listing of the source code.
You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike.
Posted by: Ken | July 19, 2003 12:16 PM
Too bad that was just Zork, and not the REAL original "dungeon" (yeah, it was called that -- though we usually called it dungeo since the system only recognized 6 letters for input) which was broken into pieces and released commercially as Zork.
Posted by: Brent M Krupp | July 19, 2003 12:20 PM
In response to Brent: the real original dungeo was originally called Zork. We renamed it to dungeon for no good reason, then renamed it back because we liked "Zork" better and the Dungeons and Dragons guy wanted to sue us for trademark infringement.
Boy, none of us ever expected to read about Zork 26 years after we wrote it.
Posted by: Tim Anderson | July 21, 2003 12:28 PM
Don't forget your grue repellant!
Posted by: Jon | July 21, 2003 01:13 PM