Fiction above the chemist

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Now I should imagine someone has come across this before, but while roaming around on the official site, I came across the below mumbo-jumbo on an error page, with one of the links still working. It takes you to a geeky but well-meaning interractive fiction site. Is this a Von enthusiasm?

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 Above The Chemist
      Score: 404       Moves: 10 

ERROR 404, PAGE NOT FOUND
Barely Interactive Fiction
Copyright (c) 2002 by The Sisters Of Mercy. All rights reserved.
Release 7 / Serial number 218022 / Interpreter 1 Version G

West of Chemist

>look

A chain of godforsaken mountains lies brooding on the western skyline. A road leads south to the train station, and there is a well-trodden path to the east. Horizontal rain prevents you from seeing much more ...through those very cheap sunglasses.


>take off sunglasses


You can't take off the cheap sunglasses.


>drop sunglasses


But you're still wearing the cheap sunglasses!


>take off sunglasses


You can't take off the cheap sunglasses.


>go south


Booking Hall

The ticket counters in the booking hall are deserted. There is an electronic sign above the counters.


>read sign


"Platform 1: west to Criminal City and The Slough Of Despond. Platform 2 for southbound trains terminating in the Land Of Fake Jazz Nonsense"


>inventory


You have a drum machine, a packet of used guitar strings, a card from the Department Of Health And Social Security, a picture of Isabelle Adjani, a pair of cheap sunglasses, some kind of sinus inflammation, and a deep aversion to Fake Jazz Nonsense.


>go north


West of Chemist


>go east


At The Chemist

You are in a white room. Tiny envelopes fill the myriad small shelves on a wall behind the chemist himself, who looks you up and down with his one voracious eye. He doesn't seem surprised to see you.


>go up, to a page whose existence I have posited in a fit of overweening bravado


The chemist smiles knowingly, and hands you a few of his tiny envelopes. You find yourself climbing a metal construct with no visible end. Fog gathers around you. Suddenly horrified, you think about descending, but a trapdoor slams shut beneath you as your surroundings begin to pulsate with colours which ... you have not seen before. The cackling from below is soon drowned out by the furious thunder of your own heartbeat amplified to deafening volume.


Above The Chemist


You are above the chemist, but all is not lost, although you are.

Looking down, you notice some inscriptions scratched into the metalwork. Maybe you should click on one of them. You know you want to.

Infocom Games  and  their documentation  or  a mirror site of their documentation 

All things IF-related, including freeware, amateur games, Infocom-type and others 

Frotz: runs Infocom-type games on almost any computer  or  search net for "Frotz" 

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Our Lord and Master claims to be a fan of "Infocom text adventures - the ones without goblinspeak". A computerised version of those roleplaying-for-people-with-no-friends books, insofar as I can tell.
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Episkopos wrote:Our Lord and Master claims to be a fan of "Infocom text adventures - the ones without goblinspeak". A computerised version of those roleplaying-for-people-with-no-friends books, insofar as I can tell.
HEY! :evil:

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A clicky about infocom.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Ah well, nice to know he's found a way to while away the long days not spent recording new material. Heaven forbid he should get bored! Still, respect is due for that big tour...

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tsk. that old chestnut...?

ours is better ;)

http://www.myheartland.co.uk/blah/

now that's interactive ;D
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Quiff Boy wrote:tsk. that old chestnut...?

ours is better ;)

http://www.myheartland.co.uk/blah/

now that's interactive ;D
That still up there? :eek:

I thought it was long Lost in Time and Space by now... :D

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Izzy HaveMercy wrote:
Episkopos wrote:Our Lord and Master claims to be a fan of "Infocom text adventures - the ones without goblinspeak". A computerised version of those roleplaying-for-people-with-no-friends books, insofar as I can tell.
HEY! :evil:

IZ. (AD&D, Forgotten Realms, Call of Cthulhu, Delta Green Player and GameMaster AND having at least 9 friends, some of them even in separate bodies)
HEY yerself! I bin misconstrued, yerroner!

I was talking about the Fighting Fantasy choose-your-own-adventure books being a form roleplaying for people with no friends to roleplay with.

(Call of Cthulhu, World of Darkness, WFRP and pick-some-obscure-system-from-the-dregs-of-the-Internet GM, part time games developer with a system hopefully going out for playtesting this year. Not sure I have nine whole friends though.)
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