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This War of Mine
by
Nicholas Bordone
Played 2,016 times
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"This War of Mine" use no scoring To say (relevant time - a time) as 24h time: let H be the hours part of relevant time; let M be the minutes part of relevant time; say "[H]:[if M is less than 60]0[end if][M]". When play begins: now the time of day is 6:09 AM; now the right hand status line is "[time of day as 24h time]". The Apartment is south of the Hallway. "Welcome to The year 2064 and the world has changed into 10 national governments after the Industrial Upheaval of the 2020-2030s that boosted the worlds economy tremendously, The Technology of detecting metals in what area got into an exact science that brought many countries to grow and get stronger, and those countries borders increased significantly, The countries with this technology economy became tremendous, only the lazy didn't have any money. PRO TIP: THE TAKE COMMAND IS SIMPLIFIED INTO JUST 'T'. PRO TIP: SIMPLE-LOCKPICK IS SIMPLIFIED AS S-LOCK." The front door is an closed locked door. The front door is north of the apartment and east of the hallway. "You wake up on a bed inside a bombed skyscraper. You can see a door to the north but its closed because you locked it with your simple-lockpick that is inside the desk. there on you are gloves, and wheat inside you pocket. the desk has a drawer." The simple-lockpick unlocks The front door. The desk is in the apartment. The drawer is part of the desk. The drawer is a closed openable container. In the drawer is a journal, a pen ,and a simple-lockpick. on the desk is a manual. description of gloves is "a bloody pair of alchemist's gloves that used to belong to a young alchemist, this object allows the transmute command." description of desk is "an old dust metal desk with a single openable drawer inside is simple lock pick, a journal, and a pen" description of the drawer is "it is heavy and full of stuff" description of journal is "'This is your soul in a piece of writing, every day you right down your experiences inside the journal.' May 23 2064 I took refuge inside a bombed skyscraper today it looks stable enough.but i can't stay long there are troops everywhere inside the city. I can't even trust my own country all the troops will do is kidnap me and force me into their military. I did witness one of the special forces Alchemysts die today, fighting a Russian Republic Alchemyst...I shudder at the thought he was only around 16 younger than me. But it took his gloves for I believe is his mechanism for manipulating his surroundings., along with a manual that was luckily on his person. its been day 78 and I am lucky to be alive." inside the manual are notes. description of manual is "'This manual explains the mechanism for alternating your surroundings.' You are a military Alchemist your gloves are your life a designated weapon, you lose or break this you are most likely end up dead on the battle field. page 1: Simple transmuting; you must be wearing your gloves, to activate the gloves clap them together and place them near the object you want to deconstruct and reconstruct. What you want to make you must visualize what it will look like, and you must understand how you are reconfigure the atoms to your liking. If you try to make something with enough or adequate materials it will rebound and shock you very hard." description of notes is "So these gloves they give you make you able to deconstruct and reconstruct matter which they call transmutation. They skill of an Alchemist is based off there understanding of chemistry and the structure of particles. They also say you can make food if you have all the material...but when I tried to make bread with wheat it turned out terrible, I guess you have to know a little bit of baking to make bread. I have found that with common materials around me hydrogen oxygen nitrogen and carbon I could easily manufacture nitroglycerin!Important command to transmute: transmute (the object) into gloves." description of pen is "a ball point pen you use to right in your journal." description of simple-lockpick is "I simple lock pick, opens/closes the most basic of locks." Every turn when in the apartment: say "'I think I should take a look at the manual and the kids notes.'" Asking someone about something is speech. Telling someone about something is speech. Answering someone that something is speech. Asking someone for something is speech. Understand "talk to [someone]" as a mistake ("To start a conversation, try to ASK [the noun] ABOUT something or TELL [the noun] ABOUT something."). "the Hallway" the hallway is up of the lobby. "in the hallway you see a backpack, at the end of the hallway is a hole leading down into the lobby. the lobby is to far down to jump." inside the hallway is a backpack. a backpack is a closed openable container. inside the backpack is bottled water, and rope. inside the hallway is the stone. stone is portable. description of stone is "crumpled stone from the infrastructure of the building can be made into stairs. command to go down is 'unlock hole with stairs' in know its not lore friendly" the hole is a openable locked door. carry out inserting stairs into hole: remove the hole from play; replace with a stairwell; the stairwell is a open door. the stairwell is down of the hallway and west of the lobby. report unlocking the hole with stairs: say "you use the stairs you made to get down to the lobby"; rule succeeds. City Warzone is a region inside region . lobby is inside City Warzone. the Lobby is east of the hole."The lobby is abandoned and dusty there are mailboxes that could contain something useful, but there locked there is also a crowbar sprawled on the floor. There used to be a break room to the north there also might be something useful there as well. to the south is a break room." mailboxes are inside the Lobby. mailboxes is openable locked container. inside the mailboxes is bills, a teddybear, and a loveletter. description of bills is "Bills from before the war hit, at least the guy didn't have to pay." description of teddybear is "a worn out teddy bear with tears around the ears, it looks as if it once belonged to a child and put it inside the mail box for safe keeping but never got to retrieve it. It may belong to a child in the slums...I could return it?" a crowbar is inside the Lobby. a crowbar unlocks the mailboxes. description of loveletter is " a lover letter sent by a soldier to a jennifer... maybe I could bring this to her? In these tough times anyone could use a little comfort." the breakroom is south of the Lobby. "A break room ment for the securuty guards of the apartment complex. inside there is a minifridge and a wooden-desk." the minifridge is inside the breakroom. the minifridge is a closed openable container. inside the minifridge is cold-water, and icepops. the wooden-desk is inside the breakroom. the wooden-desk is a closed openable container. inside the wooden-desk is four-quarters, a stungun, and a flashlight. gloves are wearable. loaf of bread is edible. Transmutation relates things to each other in groups. The verb to become (it becomes, they become, it became) implies the transmutation relation. Definition: a thing is transmutable if it becomes more than one thing. [* It always becomes itself.] A thing can be valuable. Something valuable called wheat is carried by the player. It becomes a loaf of bread. A thing can be usefull. stone is an usefull thing. it becomes a stairs. A thing can be accessible. stairs is an accessible thing. The loaf of bread is an edible thing. The gloves is carried by the player. Procedural rule when inserting something into gloves: ignore the can't insert into what's not a container rule. Check inserting something which is not transmutable into gloves: instead say "the transmutation failed and rebounded, you got shocked." To decide which thing is new form of (obj - usefull): decide on a random accessible thing which becomes obj. To decide which thing is new form of (obj - edible thing): decide on a random valuable thing which becomes obj. To decide which thing is new form of (obj - valuable thing): decide on a random edible thing which becomes obj. Carry out inserting something into gloves: remove the noun from play; now the player carries the new form of the noun. Report inserting something edible into gloves: say "The gloves shoots lightning from the fingers, that dance around [the noun], and transmutes it to [a new form of the noun].!"; rule succeeds. Report inserting something usefull into gloves: say "The gloves shoots lightning from the fingers, that dance around [the noun], and transmutes it to into downward stairs, you can now go down!"; rule succeeds. Report inserting something valuable into gloves: say "The gloves shoots lightning from the fingers, that dance around [the noun], and transmutes it to [a new form of the noun]."; rule succeeds. Report inserting something accessible into gloves: say "The gloves shoots lightning from the fingers, that dance around [the noun], and transmutes it to [a new form of the noun]."; rule succeeds. understand the command "transmute" as insert. understand the command "t" as take. Report eating something: say "You ate [the noun] , you are no longer hungry." instead. understand "s-lock" as simple-lockpick.