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[prismakaos]

liberateanimum: Welcome to larp!
liberateanimum: There is a party hat in front of you on a stool. There is a window on the south wall. Doors are to the west and north.
Prismakaos: i take the hat
liberateanimum: The hat is made of paper and feels flimsy.
Prismakaos: look inside hat
liberateanimum: Inside the hat you find a note scrawled in pencil: "In the West room, don't be afraid to be impulsive."
Prismakaos: look through window
liberateanimum: Outside you see the beautiful realm of Darshein, your home since birth. In the town square, a crier is calling out and attracting a small crowd.
Prismakaos: listen to crier
liberateanimum: The crier is too far away for you to hear.
Prismakaos: go west
liberateanimum: You enter a room with no windows or doors, but along the center of the west wall there is a small hatch near the ground. There appear to be some smudges along the floor. There is a string hanging from the ceiling, but it disappears into the stone. There is a door behind you, leading east.
Prismakaos: look string
liberateanimum: The string is perfectly normal and nondescript. It has a little loop on the end just the right size for a finger.
Prismakaos: look hatch
liberateanimum: The hatch is about two feet tall by two feet wide. It is embedded into the stone. There appear to be rough hinges hewn into the rock; if the hatch were to swing open, it would move up and into the room. There is a faint scratching sound behind it.
Prismakaos: pull string
liberateanimum: There is a brief pause before you feel the string tighten, then go slack in your hand. The hatch swings open suddenly and unceremoniously. After a moment, beagle puppies enter the room! They look up at you playfully and wag their tails.
Prismakaos: squish puppies!
liberateanimum: You attempt to crush the young dogs with your body, but they are far too agile and avoid your attempts with an awkward gracefulness.
Prismakaos: pick up puppy and let it lick me
liberateanimum: You pick up a puppy. It wriggles playfully and licks your nose. You acquire a puppy.
Prismakaos: look in hatch
liberateanimum: Beyond the hatch there is only darkness....
Prismakaos: look puppy
liberateanimum: The puppy wriggles playfully and licks your nose.
Prismakaos: go east
Prismakaos: go north
liberateanimum: After passing through a chamber with a window and a stool in it, you head out onto a balcony overlooking the forest to the north of the castle. Down below lie the tranquil waters of Lake Farroun. It is late afternoon. To the east lies a staircase down that leads to the rest of the castle, but a large section of the rock stairs has fallen through, making them impassable.
Prismakaos: inventory
liberateanimum: You have a flimsy party hat and a beagle puppy.
Prismakaos: look over balcony
liberateanimum: Down below, you can see several jagged rocks, the remnants of the stairs that have fallen off the side of the castle. Beneath the rocks lies the path down to Lake Farroun.
Prismakaos: go south
Prismakaos: stand on stool
Prismakaos: look at ceiling
liberateanimum: You enter a room with a stool and a window. You carefully balance yourself on the stool and examine the ceiling. The ceiling is made of fine quality cut stone.
Prismakaos: step down
Prismakaos: take stool
Prismakaos: w
Prismakaos: e
liberateanimum: You take the stool. It appears to be made of oak.
Prismakaos: throw stool through window
liberateanimum: The stool sails out the window, falling onto the roof of the castle structure below, making a loud crack! The bustle of the town square dies down as people look up towards the castle in your direction.
Prismakaos: put hat on puppy
liberateanimum: You put the party hat on the puppy. It paws in effectually to stop it from covering its eyes.
Prismakaos: throw puppy out window
liberateanimum: The pupy sails out the window, falling onto the roof of the castle structure below, making a soft Bomff. The puppy lies motionless as people in the town square seem to gasp and point.
liberateanimum: The town crier exclaims, "See! I told you! The princess has been trapped in the tower for so long, she's gone mad!"
Prismakaos: w
liberateanimum: Puppies dance around you, looking up playfully and wagging their tails.
Prismakaos: take puppy
liberateanimum: You pick up the puppy. It wriggles playfully and licks your nose. You acquire a puppy.
Prismakaos: look at room
liberateanimum: There are puppies dancing around you, looking up playfully and wagging their tails. A string hangs from the ceiling. In the center of the west wall, a small hatch is open, revealing darkness beyond it. There is a door to the east.
Prismakaos: take string
liberateanimum: You tug on the string, but it does not seem to snap loose from the ceiling. However, as you tug, more puppies fill the room. They all look up at your playfully and wag their tails.
Prismakaos: take puppy
liberateanimum: You cannot have more than one puppy at a time due to its wriggling.
Prismakaos: e
Prismakaos: look room
liberateanimum: The room is featureless except for a window in the south wall. There are doors leading west and north.
Prismakaos: n
liberateanimum: You are on a balcony overlooking the forest and Lake Farroun. There is a broken staircase to the east.
Prismakaos: fix staircase
liberateanimum: You do not have the tools to do that!
Prismakaos: fix staircase with puppy
liberateanimum: The puppy does not seem to adhere to the rock nor conform to the shape of stairs. It seems very afraid of falling, however.
Prismakaos: climb on puppy
liberateanimum: You try to stand on the puppy, but it is too agile and avoids your efforts.
Prismakaos: s
Prismakaos: look out window
Prismakaos: listen to crier
liberateanimum: The crier is calling for all available stonemasons to report to the castle at once. Apparently your father, the king, has received word of your recent actions, and is worried you cannot wait much longer to be rescued!
Prismakaos: e
Prismakaos: take puppy
liberateanimum: You cannot go east.
Prismakaos: w
Prismakaos: take puppy
Prismakaos: enter hatch
liberateanimum: You cannot have more than one puppy at a time due to its wriggling.
liberateanimum: The hatch is too small for you!
Prismakaos: inventory
liberateanimum: You have one puppy. It wriggles playfully and licks your nose.
Prismakaos: e
Prismakaos: unbraid hair
liberateanimum: You enter a featureless room. Doors north and west. Window south. You undo your hair.
Prismakaos: look hair
liberateanimum: Your hair is golden and fair.
Prismakaos: look hair length
liberateanimum: Your hair is beautiful and long. It reaches down to your waist!
Prismakaos: cut hair
liberateanimum: You need a tool for that.
Prismakaos: cut hair with puppy
liberateanimum: The puppy gnaws at your hair and finally cuts through. You acquire your hair.
Prismakaos: pet puppy
liberateanimum: The puppy licks your hand appreciately.
Prismakaos: braid hair into rope
liberateanimum: You begin the long arduous process of braiding your hair into rope. While you sit, the puppy wanders north to the balcony. After several minutes, it makes a whining sound.
Prismakaos: n
liberateanimum: On the balcony, the puppy is looking at a mark in the wall on the side of the castle, where the stairs used to be. In the dusk glow, the setting sun as illuminated the mark when it didn't earlier. The mark seems to depict a small dog with X's for eyes.
Prismakaos: strangle puppy with hair
liberateanimum: You tie your hair around the puppy's neck. It struggles for air, but eventually it dies.
Prismakaos: put puppy on mark
liberateanimum: Suddenly, the mark glows! The rubble below the stairs begins to stir and float upwards, slowly repairing the broken staircase! A grim figure apparates before you.
Prismakaos: greet figure
liberateanimum: The figure bows, and introduces itself as the Spirit of the Tower Stairs. It thanks you for restoring life energy back into the stairs, ensuring their good repair for another century to come!
Prismakaos: ask for wish
liberateanimum: The Spirit looks wary for one moment, but then consents to your request. You may have one wish, it declares.
Prismakaos: take wish
liberateanimum: You acquire a wish. It is shiny.
Prismakaos: save
liberateanimum: The Spirit bids you farewell and good evening, as it descends into the stairs.
liberateanimum: Game saved.
Prismakaos: go down stairs
liberateanimum: You proceed down the stairs to find your father, the king, happy at last to see you moving freely about the castle once again!
Prismakaos: greet father
Prismakaos: ask about puppies
liberateanimum: Your father greets you warmly, and embraces you tightly.
Prismakaos: ask about spirit
Prismakaos: ask about prince
liberateanimum: A feast is arranged in your honor and everyone was happy. THE END.
Prismakaos: restart
liberateanimum: There is a party hat in front of you on a stool. There is a window on the south wall. Doors are to the west and north.
Prismakaos: take party hat
liberateanimum: You acquire a party hat. It is flimsy to the touch.
Prismakaos: look inside hat
liberateanimum: Inside the hat you find writing in pencil: "In the west room, don't be afraid to be impulsive."
Prismakaos: throw stool through window
liberateanimum: The stool sails through the air, coming down on the castle structure below you with a crack! The bustle in the town square dies down as people look in your direction.
Prismakaos: leap through window
liberateanimum: You defenestrate and die.
liberateanimum: THE END.
Prismakaos: restore
liberateanimum: The Spirit bids you farewell and good evening, as it descends into the stairs.
Prismakaos: s
Prismakaos: e
Prismakaos: take puppy
liberateanimum: You acquire a puppy. Wriggle playfully lick nose.
Prismakaos: w n
Prismakaos: go down stairs
liberateanimum: You proceed down the stairs to find your father, the king, happy at last to see you moving freely about the castle once again!
Prismakaos: throw puppy at father
Prismakaos: run away
liberateanimum: The puppy sails through the air, hitting your father in the face with a thud. You flee past him and out into the castle grounds.
Prismakaos: wish for unicorn
liberateanimum: The wish glows brightly in your hand, transforming itself slowly into a dazzling unicorn with a rainbow on its rump. The unicorn whinnies.
Prismakaos: get on unicorn
liberateanimum: You mount the unicorn. There is an exit north into town, and south back inside the castle. There is sky above you.
Prismakaos: fly
liberateanimum: With a kick, your unicorn leaps into the air and soars up, up, and up, high into the sky! You feel like you can touch the stars and have dinner on the moon. You and your unicorn have many fabulous adventures together. Yay. The End.
Prismakaos: restore
liberateanimum: The Spirit bids you farewell and good evening, as it descends into the stairs.
Prismakaos: wish for magic dragon
liberateanimum: From the north, you see a great shadow approach the castle. As it soars over Lake Farroun, a colossal red dragon opens its mouth wide spewing fire onto the surround trees, setting the forest ablaze. It approaches the castle aggressively.
Prismakaos: tell dragon to eat father
liberateanimum: The dragon opens it's mouth wide and snaps down on you quickly, consuming you in one delicous bite. You are inside a dragon. There is an exit up through the esophagal sphincter. You are slowly being corroded by a liquid. It is dark, but uh, somehow you know about the exit.
Prismakaos: inventory
liberateanimum: You have one puppy. It is scared.
Prismakaos: pet puppy
liberateanimum: You pet the puppy. It licks your hand appreciatively.
Prismakaos: climb esophagus
liberateanimum: With great effort, you manage to make your way back into the dragon's mouth, narrowly avoiding jets of fire that emanate from glands to your left and right. As it opens it's mouth, you can see great Darshein castle burning, and many bodies on the ground.
Prismakaos: climb on dragon's head
liberateanimum: You leap out and around the dragon's snout just before it snaps shut. You are riding on the dragon's head.
Prismakaos: pet dragon
liberateanimum: You pet the dragon. It roars ferociously and attempts to lick your hand threateningly. As the dragon flails about, you are thrust back and are falling down along the length of the dragon's back.
Prismakaos: grab onto spine
liberateanimum: You reach a hand out and grab onto one of the dragon's spines, halting your fall. The great force of its wings beat to your left and right, making it difficult to maintain the hold.
Prismakaos: ask dragon to land
liberateanimum: Satisfied that it has destroyed ever last structure and killed every last person in Darshein, the dragon flies back to its mountaintop nest, taking you home with it.
Prismakaos: make cherries jubilee for dragon
liberateanimum: The dragon accepts your peace offering, and you spend many long hours laughing into the night trading anecdotes and bonding. The dragon eats you the next day. THE END.
Prismakaos: quit
liberateanimum: beee-oop!

Comments

[the-zedster.livejournal.com]

LOL @ "squish puppies!"

[qcvar.livejournal.com]

Prismakaos: squish puppies!

SQUIIIISSSHHH

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++patricia wrede

i miss actual games like this. stupid first person shooters!

[zaldreon.livejournal.com]

Actually, there is still an active community of people making games like this, called Interactive Fiction (or IF), or text-based adventures. The greatest repository of these games, plus interpreter programs to run them, is found at the IF Archive.

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SWEET

[zero-the-fool.livejournal.com]

"If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."

[spamchang.livejournal.com]

if all you have are puppies, everything looks like puppy-shaped emblems :p

[zaldreon.livejournal.com]

Fun! I like the idea of IF with a real human playing the computer. It certainly makes it more adaptive.

Actually, that might be a good way to give a game a test run before programming it as actual IF. Think of all the puzzles, draw out the map, and run some players through it over IM. What the players do and what they have trouble with may help you revise your design before coding the game.

Not that either of us is likely to program an IF game in the future, but just in theory...