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Shade-Like
by
Cool Dude
Played 864 times
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"A Game Like Shade". The story headline is "An Adventure in Text". When play begins: say "You wake up in your clothes. You are slumped on the couch in your apartment. It is still night." A thing can be switchable. A thing can be switched on or switched off. Carry out switching on a switchable thing: say "You switch on [the noun]."; now the noun is switched on; stop the action. Carry out switching off a switchable thing: say "You switch off [the noun]."; now the noun is switched off; stop the action. The player is on the couch. [Places and objects] The Living Room is a room."[if the player is on the couch]You are slumped on the couch, staring at the TV.[else]Your living room is sparcely decorated, with a couch and a TV. A doorway to the kitchen is east, and another doorway leads north to your hallway." The couch is a scenery enterable supporter in the living room. The TV is a scenery device in the living room. The Kitchen is a room."The kitchen is a small, but functional room. A doorway to the west leads to the living room." The counter is in the kitchen."A marble counter lines two walls, beside a sink and an oven." The sink is a scenery device in the kitchen. The oven unit is a scenery switchable closed openable container in the kitchen. The stove is part of the oven. The Short Passage is a room."This is a small, short passage with five doors: East to the bathroom, west to a bedroom, north to the study, northwest another bedroom, and south to the living room." The picture is in the short passage."A picture hangs on the wall." The description is "It's a black and white picture of your grandparents when they were children." The Bedrooma is a room with printed name "Bedroom"."You don't use this bedroom, so it isn't looking it's best right now. The wallpaper peels, the light above has gone out, the carpet is growing mold in various places. A door to the east leads to the hallway." The beda is an enterable supporter in the bedrooma."A bed sags down in the corner." The printed name is "bed". The description is "The bed smells like BO." Understand "bed" as the beda. The mold is scenery in the bedrooma."Ucky." The wallpaper is scenery in the bedrooma."Old, peeling." The carpet is scenery in the bedrooma."Damp, moldy." The Bedroomb is a room with printed name "Bedroom"."This is your bedroom. A bed is in the corner, by a large wardrobe." The bed is an enterable supporter. It is in the bedroom. It is scenery. "It's just how your ideal bed would be." The wardrobe is a scenery closed openable enterable container in the bedroom."The wardrobe is made of heavy oak." Some clothes are in the wardrobe. The description is "They are clothes." The Study is a room."This room is centered around a varnished desk. A door leads south." The desk is a supporter in the study. It is scenery."A desk made of varnished redwood." The bookshelf is an open unopenable container in the study."[if the bookshelf is in the study]A bookshelf reaches floor to ceiling near a window.[else]The bookshelf is no longer in the study, though you can't think what could have moved it." The window is a closed openable scenery container with carrying capacity 0. It is in the study. Side is a room. Instead of inserting something into the window: say "The [noun] falls down three storeys, smashing on the concrete below."; move the noun to side. Bathroomb is a room with printed name "Bathroom"."A small, cramped bathroom without a sink." The toilet is a closed openable container in the bathroomb. "A toilet is here." The shower is an open enterable container in the bathroomb."There is also a shower." Instead of taking something enterable, say "You can't." Instead of taking the toilet, say "You can probably pull it off the floor, but you don't want to." Instead of taking the window, say "You can't." Instead of taking the bookshelf, say "You can't." Instead of taking the counter, say "You can't." Instead of taking the tv, say "You have no need to do so." After taking the picture while in the passage, say "You take the picture." After dropping the picture while in the passage, say "You hang the picture back on the wall." Instead of switching on the tv, say "You won't watch TV right now." Every turn while in the kitchen: if the sink is switched on, say "A stream of water emerges from the sink." Carry out going somewhere: if the picture is not carried begin; if the picture is not in the passage begin; move the picture to the short passage; now the description of the picture is "[one of]It's a picture of the Eiffel Tower[or]It's a picture of your apartment building[or]It's an empty picture frame[at random]."; end if; end if. Every turn while in the kitchen: if the oven is switched on begin; if the oven is open, say "It is hot in here, probably because the oven is open and on."; if the oven is closed, say "It is unpleasantly warm."; end if. Instead of putting something on the stove: say "You don't want to cook [the noun]." Carry out going: if the oven is switched off, now the oven is switched on; if the oven is open, now the oven is closed. Carry out going: if a random chance of 1 in 20 succeeds, move the bookshelf to the bedrooma. After entering the beda: say "Mold tickles you under the covers." Instead of exiting while in the beda: say "You swing yourself out of the bed -- [bold type]*OW*[roman type] you whack your head against the bookshelf."; move the player to the study; if the bookshelf is in the study begin; now the bookshelf is in the bedrooma; else; move the bookshelf to the study; end if. The studydoor is a scenery door with printed name "study door". The bathroom door is a scenery door. It is east of the short and west of the bathroomb. The ratty bedroom door is a scenery door. Understand "study" or "door" or "study door" as the studydoor. The living room is south of the short passage. The bathroom is east of the short passage. The ratty is west of the short passage and east of the bedrooma. The bedroomb is northwest of the short passage. The studydoor is north of the short passage and south of the study. The kitchen is east of the living room.