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UN1015 T-minus 59 minutes
by
Emily Weidensee
Played 1,537 times
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When play begins: now the right hand status line is "Time: [time of day]"; When play begins: now the time of day is 11:00 PM When play begins: say "11:00 PM Wednesday night and you’ve finally finished your huge composition paper that you’ve been working on for weeks. It's due at 11:59 via canvas. Sweet, sweet victory. You step away from you desk feeling relieved, get up and stretch. All you’ve got left is to upload and submit. You return to your desk to finally put an end to this project. Your computer screen is a blank blue. WHAT? You try the mouse. Nothing. You try the power button. Nothing. The laptop won’t even shut down. You have 59 minutes to submit this assignment via canvas. What do you do? " Knocking on is an action applying to one thing. Understand "knock" or "knock on [something]" as knocking on. The block giving rule is not listed in the check giving it to rules. Understand "give [things] to [someone]" as giving it to. Your Room is a room. The description of Your Room is " It’s your messy dorm room, stuff cluttered and cramped everywhere. On your desk below your bed the creepy blue glow is still coming from your computer screen and next to it is bag of doritos. On your roommate’s side is equally cluttered, his laptop on one side of the desk and his dishes stacked up right next to it. To the south of your room is your good friend Tyler’s room, to the east is Jonathan's room and to the west is Kevin’s room." A bag of doritos is undescribed in Your Room. A laptop is undescribed in Your Room. A computer is undescribed in Your Room. Understand "my laptop" as the laptop. Understand "roommates laptop" or "my roommate's laptop" or "roommate's laptop" as the computer. The description of the bag of doritos is "It’s a fresh bag of unopened Doritos." After taking the bag of doritos: say "You have saved these for later." The bag of doritos is edible. After eating the bag of doritos: say "You will momentarily succumb to their deliciousness. You feel refreshed! [paragraph break] BUT it wastes your precious time. Time is ticking! You might want to find someone to help you instead of snacking."; now the time of day is the time of day plus 5 minutes. The description of the laptop is "Pretty much useless piece of junk." Instead of taking the laptop: say "What are you going to do with your laptop? It's not much use to you while it's broken. You better think of something else." The description of the computer is "His laptop is in much better condition than you own, but shouldn't you ask first? Time is ticking." Instead of taking the computer: say " You log on to your roommate’s laptop and you are able to log on successfully and access Canvas! You are about to pull up your assignment and you hear a loud click, and see the door knob turn. [paragraph break]OH NO! You scramble to upload the document but you are unable to attach it and hit submit, before your roommate comes in. When he comes in, he became livid at the sight of you using his computer without permission and starts yelling at you; you are frozen in the confrontation while he yells at you for a solid 5 minutes. [paragraph break] You are going to have to try another solution."; now the time of day is the time of day plus 5 minutes. Jonathan's Room is a room. Jonathan's Room is east of Your Room. There is Jonathan's Door in Jonathan's room. It is fixed in place. The description of Jonathan's Room is " Jonathan's door is slightly ajar but you might want to knock first. Through the small crack in the doorway you can see papers are skewered all over the floor and books lying open on his desk . South of Jonathan’s room is Michael's room, to the west is your own room and the east is Jim’s room." After knocking on Jonathan's door: say "As you knock the door opens up a bit. You see Jonathan inside his room pacing, and he appears to be fuming. [Paragraph break] You open the door wider and before you can ask Jonathan for help he says, 'Dude you won’t believe the day I’ve been having. You won’t believe the week I’ve been having. I have three exams this week and a group assignment and a 2000 word essay by Thursday. Unbelievable. Seriously how am I supposed to managing all this?' [Paragraph break] Looks like he's in no mood to help you out and he just wasted 5 minutes of your time talking. Time is running out." ; now the time of day is the time of day plus 15 minutes; Jim's Room is a room. Jim's Room is east of Jonathan's Room. Jim's Room is north of Ryan's Room. Jim's Room is northeast of The East Quad. The description of Jim's Room is " The door is closed. Pretty empty hallway. To the southeast is the East Quad room, to the west is Jonathan's room." There is Jim's Door in Jim's room. It is fixed in place. After knocking on Jim's door, say "You wait. No answer. No one's here, better look for someone else." The East Quad is a room. The East Quad is northeast of Ryan's Room. The East Quad is southeast of Jim's Room. The description of the East Quad is "A large room at the east end of your all that is southeast of Jim's Room and northeast of Ryan's room." There is East Quad Door in the East Quad. It is fixed in place. After knocking on The East Quad door: say "You wait. No answer. No one's here, you better hurry. "; if the time of day is before 11:49 PM, instead say "A smiling face, one you don't recognize, opens the door to a large room filled with a half a dozen others. The smiling face guy says Hey, what's up? [paragraph break] So you explain the terrible time you've been having to him and ask if anyone there thinks they can help you out before it's too late. [paragraph break] Well, the guy says, a few of us were about to head out to the library. Why don't you come with us and submit it there? [paragraph break] The library! Why didn't you think of that in the first place?! There's just a barely enough time for you to run there and get it done if you leave now and hurry!" Ryan's Room is a room. Ryan's Room is east of Michael's Room. Ryan's Room is south of Jim's Room. Ryan's Room is southwest of the East Quad. The description of Ryan's room is " The door is closed. Pretty empty hallway, where is everyone? To the northeast is the East Quad, to the west is Michael's room." There is Ryan's Door in Ryan's room. It is fixed in place. After knocking on Ryan's door, say "Ryan opens the door. Ryan says, 'Hey man, what’s up?' [paragraph break] You explain your situation to Ryan hoping he'll be able to help you out. [paragraph break] Ryan says, 'Sorry, I don’t have the program on my computer, otherwise I’d totally help you out. Sounds like you don’t have much time left. Did you try going to either of the Quads? There's always a ton of people in there. Hope you can find someone else. Good luck.'" Michael's Room is a room. Michael's Room is west of Ryan's Room. Michael's Room is south of Jonathan's Room. Michael's Room is east of Tyler's Room. The description of Michael's Room is "The door is closed. Pretty empty hallway. To the east is Ryan’s room, to the west is Tyler’s room." There is Michael's Door in Michael's room. It is fixed in place. After knocking on Michael's door, say "You wait. No answer. Nothing. No one's here, try someone else." Tyler's Room is a room. Tyler's Room is west of Michael's Room. Tyler's Room is south of Your Room. Tyler's Room is east of Your RA's Room. The description of Tyler's Room is "His door is closed. Knock to see if he can be of any help. To the east is Michael's, to the north is your room, to the west is your RA’s room." There is Tyler's Door in Tyler's room. It is fixed in place. After knocking on Tyler's door, say " With the force of your knock the door pushes open. You see Tyler is at his desk working at his computer, very hard. He doesn’t hear you at first because he has his headphones on. You knock a louder so he can hear you. [paragraph break] He takes off his headphones when he hears you. 'Hey! Sorry man, I'm in the middle of a quiz right now and can’t really talk, catch up with you later? Is that cool?' He slides his headphones back on. Looks like a dead end here. You're going to have to keep looking!" Your RA's room is a room. Your RA's Room is west of Tyler's Room. Your RA's Room is south of Kevin's Room. Your RA's Room is east of Troy's Room. The description of Your RA's Room is "Your RA's door is open! Your find him sitting at his desk. Knock on his door, to let him know you are there. To the west of his room is Troy’s room and the the east is Tyler’s room, north is Kevin’s room." There is your RA's Door in Your RA's room. It is fixed in place. Understand "RA's Door" or "my RA's Door" or "the RA's Door" as Your RA's Door. After knocking on your RA's Door: say "You wait for a minute. [paragraph break] Your RA greets you and says 'Hey! What's up? Anything I can help you with?' And you say indeed there is. You tell all your trouble to your RA and he helps you fix your computer by advising you to call IT and he also suggests you email your professor to explain the situation. [paragraph break] You do all this and no longer have to worry about submitting your assignment for the night CONGRATULATIONS."; end the story Troy's room is a room. Troy's Room is west of Your RA's Room. Troy's Room is south of Billy's Room. Troy's Room is southeast of the West Quad. The description of Troy's Room is " His door is closed. Looks like the hallway is pretty empty, but there is a lot of talking coming from the West Quad, which is to the northwest of Troy’s room. To the east is Kevin’s room and the north of is Billy’s room." There is Troy's Door in Troy's room. It is fixed in place. After knocking on Troy's door, say "You wait and listen close. No answer. No one's here, keep on going." The West Quad is a room. The West Quad is northwest of Troy's Room. The West Quad is southwest of Billy's Room. The description of the West Quad is "A large room at the west end of your hall that northwest of Troy's room and southwest of Billy's room. There's a lot of noise coming form the inside, must be a lot of people in there." There is West Quad Door in The West Quad. It is fixed in place. A controller is undescribed in The West Quad. After knocking on West Quad Door, say "The door swings wide open to the large room filled with a bunch unfamiliar guys playing Super Smash Bros, one of which is currently at the door to. You see that there is another controller laying on the floor. [paragraph break] Over the noise you yell 'Does anyone have a computer I can use?' [paragraph break] 'Nope!' one of the guys yells back, 'but we have a controller you can use. Come play some Smash Bros. with us, man. We need another guy for even the tourney and we have an extra controller for you. It's on the table, take it! You know you want to, just for a bit! [paragraph break] You see the controller and start to think about how much you’ve wanted to play Super Smash Bros. with a group of people, but now is such an inconvenient time. " After taking the controller: say "But okay. You'll play just for ten minutes. [paragraph break] 10 minutes just wasn't enough time and you end up playing for too long passing your deadline and you fail to hand in your assignment on time that night. Hopefully you have learned for next time."; end the story. Billy's Room is a room. Billy's Room is west of Kevin's Room. Billy's Room is north of Troy's Room. BIlly's Room is northeast of the West Quad. The description of Billy's Room is "You try to see if Billy can help. His door is open and you see Billy in his room but he doesn't see you at first. To the southwest of his room is the West Quad and to the east is Kevin’s room. South of his room is Troy’s room." Billy is a man. Billy is inside Billy's Room. There is Billy's Door inside Billy's Room. It is fixed in place. After knocking on Billy's Door, say "Billy gets up to meet you at his door and says, 'Hey man! How’s it goin’? I’m starved do you want to get food?' Before Billy gets any further you explain your problem to him. 'I don't know man, I'm starved. I'm just on my way out to get food.'" After giving bag of doritos to Billy: say "While Billy eats the doritos, and satisfies his hunger, he lets you borrow his computer to submit your assignment with time to spare. What a relief! Congratulations!"; end the story. Kevin's Room is west of Your Room. Kevin's Room is north of Your RA's Room. Kevin's Room is east of Billy's Room. The description of Kevin's Room is "Looks like the hallway is pretty empty. West of Kevin’s room is Billy’s room and to the south of Kevin's room is your RA's room." There is Kevin's Door in Kevin's room. It is fixed in place. After knocking on Kevin's door, say "You wait. Pretty quiet. No one's here, better hope there's someone else around to help you out." At 11:30 PM: say "You've spent up half of your time, keep on looking." At 11:42 PM: say "Have you checked the clock? Time is ticking." At 11:50 PM: say "You have to hurry only 9 minutes left!" At 11:59 PM: say " YOUR TIME IS UP. You have run out of time to submit your assignment. Better luck next time."; end the story.
