Terence Fergusson postulated:

Here's a little experiment.  And a little bit of insanity to boot.
Those of you who are familiar with Infocom, or are in on the little
adventure game I'm programming will recognise what I'm doing here.

Wow, you mean someone else but me actually played those games?  ^_^;
Those were so much fun.. I think I still have copies of Hitchhiker's,
Planetfall, and a few others lying around...  haven't played with them
in years, though.

As I said, this is just a little bit of insanity, so if no-one wants
to participate, I won't blame you.  I'll be keeping an eye on this
to see how it goes.

Hmm.. intriguing.. Well, I don't know if I'll have time, but if I ever
find myself getting bored in the near future I just might take a shot
at it...

SEARCH NEW JUNK

Sifting through all the stuff that fell out, removing things like your
Ranma 1/2 "Changes in water" T-shirt, your Urusei Yatsura "Lum Shocker Pak"

*smile*  ^_^

GET OFF BED

You have to get out of the closet junk first.

GET OUT OF CLOSET JUNK

You remove yourself from the closet junk.

GET OFF BED

You get off the bed.

Heh.. this kind of mis-thinking about how to do certain actions is
amusing (at least to us Infocomers) for a while, but I have a feeling
it might get old if we kept it up for the whole story...

TURN OFF COMPUTER

Before you can do anything, the screen suddenly blanks out of its own accord.
You back away from the machine before it gets any ideas about electrocuting
you or something.  It appears, however, to have other ideas.

The screen begins to glow eerily.

PANIC

You scream and shout, generally running around like a chicken with it's head
cut off.

The glowing grows stronger, and you feel a strong gravitational attraction 
pulling you towards your TV.

EAST

You attempt to flee, but the pull from the screen is too strong.

With a cry, your feet lose their grip on the floor, skidding on your
scale-model Griffon.  You fly across the room, and completely defying any
law of physics, are sucked into your 12" TV.

I like the way you incorporated both direct responses to commands and
timed events in this part.. I remember that happening in a number of
games.


Anyways, like I said, if I have time....


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