Virtual Machine (Incomplete) by Nathan Popham

Virtual Machine (Incomplete)

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"Virtual Machine" by Nathan Popham

Rule for printing the name of a room: do nothing.
Rule for printing the name of a dark room: do nothing.

Rule for printing the announcement of darkness: do nothing.

The examine devices rule is not listed in the carry out examining rules.


Knocking is an action applying to one thing.
Understand "knock on [a door]" as knocking.

Understand the command "flip" as switch.


The time of day is 12:00 AM.


When play begins:
	say "
EXCELLENT[line break] 
SUBJECT IS READY[line break]
BEGIN TEST

There is a flash of pain and light as your mind is wiped clean, your thoughts and memories lost to the indifferent machine. As soon as the process completes, you slip into blackness.[line break][line break]"



The Parlor is a room. "[if unvisited]You wake up on the floor of a small white room.[otherwise]The room is light-colored and spartan. A square light fixture fixed to the ceiling makes the room seem to glow. Some sort of dispenser is set inside a receptacle on the south wall, and the west shows the seams of a door."



The white light fixture is a scenery object in the Parlor. The description is "It emits a bright white light."


The dispenser is in the Parlor. It is scenery. "There is a bowl and a cup fixed to the bottom of the receptacle. Above each is a spout. It looks like a meal dispenser." 

The bowl is in the Parlor. The bowl is scenery. 

The cup is in the Parlor.  The cup is scenery.


Instead of taking bowl:
	say "The bowl is fixed in place. Seems like it isn't mealtime yet."

Instead of taking cup:
	say "The cup is fixed in place. Seems like it isn't mealtime yet."


The main door is a closed, unopenable door. It is scenery. It is west of the Parlor. The description is "Thin seams show the presence of a door, but there is no handle, button, or other distinguishing trait. Pushing on the door doesn't work--it must be openable only from the outside." 

Instead of opening main door:
	say "There is no visible way to open this door. You'll have to 	wait until it's opened from the outside."

Instead of knocking main door:
	say "Your knocks seem to get swallowed by the door's material. 				There is no response."


The Bedroom is north of the Parlor. "This room and everything in it is colored a deep blue. The ceiling light keeps the room comfortably lit, without the brightness of the white room. 

A bed stretches across one side of the room. On the opposite side of the room, a computer terminal is set into the wall, with a chair placed beside it."


The blue light fixture is a scenery object in the Bedroom. The description is "It emits a comfortably dim light."


There is a computer terminal in the Bedroom. It is scenery. "The terminal is off. You see no way of turning it on."


There is a chair in the Bedroom. It is scenery. 

Instead of taking the chair:
	say "It is too heavy to carry."


At 12:20 AM:
	now the large robot is in the Parlor;
	If the player is in the Parlor:
		say "The door on the west wall slides open with a faint whir of machinery. Behind it is a dimly-lit hallway, mostly obscured by a large robot coming through the door. As soon as it is inside, the door slides shut behind it.";
	If the player is not in the Parlor:
		say "You hear a faint whirring noise coming from the white room.".
	

The large robot is a object. "There is a robot heading towards you." The description is "The robot is a wheeled monstrosity with many different appendages. It is currently coming straight towards you."

Every turn:
	if the large robot is in the location of the player:
		say "Several of the robot's arms grab you with machine strength, then another presses against your head. You feel a shock flow through you, and struggle loses its importance....";
		now the player is in the Exam Room.

The Exam Room is a room. "[if unvisited]The next time you become conscious, you find yourself sitting in a formfitting chair in a dark room. There is a dim and seemingly sourceless light centered on you. The rest of the room is shrouded by shadows, but it feels vast. [otherwise] You are sitting in an examining chair in the center of a dim circle of light, surrounded on all sides by impenetrable darkness."