The text based adventure thread.

[Free Guns For All]

Okay, how many of you have played the classic text based adventure game Zork? Well, I haven't, but I know the gist of it, and I wanna start a game similar to it.

Basically, I'll post an scenario, with a description of where you are, directions you can go, and a list of items in your inventory. The next poster chooses a command based on what is available. Then the poster after that posts the outcome of that command. If the person moved, you describe the new location. If they used something, you decide what the item did. That pretty much sums it up.

So, here goes:



You find yourself in a deserted hallway of Mayor Shelter's mansion. There is a door to either side of you. Knowing the mayor, something horrifying is probably behind those doors. You have a hotdog, half an XBOX controller, and a large bottle of Mountain Dew. You can go north, east, south or west.

[Boltor]

*Go North*

[Free Guns For All]

You continue north to the end of the hallway. There is a hallway going east to west, or south back the way you came. There is a portrait of the mayor on the wall in front of you.

[Boltor]

*Take portrait of the mayor*

[Aersoldorf]

You set off an alarm and hear barking from the Eastern hallway. It seems to be growing louder.

[Boltor]

*Go West*

[Aersoldorf]

You run down the west hall and come to an intersection with a north- south hallway. There is a door set into the wall in front of you.

[Boltor]

*open door*

[Aersoldorf]

You open the door and discover two sets of stairs, one up and one down. There is no lighting in the stairwell aside from the light shining in through the open door. You can see up and down to where each staircase turns at the landing, you can also see 3 large wolfhounds coming down the hall behind you.

[Free Guns For All]

Throw hotdog at the wolfhounds.

[Barry]

The wolfhounds stop to fight over the hotdog, giving you time to both close the door behind you and decide whether to take the up or down staircase in the dark.

[Aersoldorf]

Go down

[hoortan]

walk 3 steps to your left and shout as loud as you can

[Barry]

The lighting system in the down stairwell is "voice activated", allowing you to make your safe descent, take the curve to the left, and see that there are two doors at the end of the corridor; the one on the left is marked "Heroes Only", the right one "Cowards Only". You hear what sounds like rushing water behind both.

[Aersoldorf]

Examine walls

[Autonomina]

Upon examining the walls, you notice two levers next to each door. The levers by the "heroes" door are down, the ones near the "cowards" door are up. The levers seem to correspond with both the doors and the water flowing on the other side. You may move any lever in any order you see fit.

[Aersoldorf]

Move the right hero lever left, the left coward lever up, the right coward lever down and the left hero lever left

[Autonomina]

In doing so you release the locking mechanism on the coward door, while stopping the flow of water behind it. You may enter the door or rework the levers.

[Aersoldorf]

Enter the coward door

[hoortan]

Lock the door immediately

[Free Guns For All]

Upon locking the door, you the wall has a poster with a giant chicken on it. There are stairs leading up, a corridor leading straight ahead, and a window to your left.

[Aersoldorf]

Lick the giant chicken

[hoortan]

After licking it, punch it as powerful as you can.

[Aersoldorf]

The chicken comes to life and pecks you on the head.

[hoortan]

Block with you feet

[Aersoldorf]

As you lay on the floor with your feet in the air attempting to keep the giant chicken poster from gouging out an eye, a little mouse runs out of his hole and comes over and whispers in your ear "please help me"

[hoortan]

Hold the mouse, protect it with you hands. Run to the window with the speed 100 miles per hour. Jump out immediately.

[Aersoldorf]

You hit the plate glass windows with enough force to knock the breath out of yourself. The mouse, whose skull was fractured on impact, twitches a few times in your palms and then ceases to move. You hear voices coming from the hallway to your right, and hear the pounding on the door to your left. There are no sounds coming from the stairwell leading down.

[hoortan]

Suddenly, you see a big bird lands in front of you. It shouts :" Jump on me, or else you will die with the mouse, fast!!!"

[Aersoldorf]

Bite the giant bird