| Friday, February 08, 2002 |
 | So, yeah, text-only adventures. Did you ever write any of those things? Playing around with Quill, wrapping new flesh and hair around the same superstructure over and over again. You are lost in space. You are Agent X. You are the Marquis de Sade.
Different nouns, occasionally different verbs, same structure. Put a in b. Say y to z. Go North. Look. Examine c.
Over and over, same friends in different suits. Programmed responses to special words. You have free will, but only if you take little steps along the lines we painted. Happy little robots save the world again. North, South, East, West, Inventory does the rest.
Did you ever want to be text-only? Responding to basic commands but easily confused? Where a failure to adhere almost precisely to the single right route would see you stabbed or stalemated? Standing in the pressure chamber, trying to work out how to put on the spacesuit?
All of which got me to thinking, and ultimately took me to the UpsideClown:
What now? >
Look.
You are in a quandary. You can see no obvious exits.
What now? >
Now go Text-Only.
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