Perplexingredients
Posted on May 17th, 2012 by headspook
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West of House . . .
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.
They’re getting rare, but every now and then you come across one: A Zork house.
Some of you know what I’m talking about. You climbed through that window, got locked in the pitch black cellar (time and again), and were likely eaten by a grue. You cursed the Thief and the twisty little passages, admired the view from atop Flood Control Dam #3, and your blood ran cold at the Entrance to Hades…
“The bell suddenly becomes red hot and falls to the ground. The wraiths, as if paralyzed, stop their jeering and slowly turn to face you. On their ashen faces, the expression of a long-forgotten terror takes shape.”
Brrr.
There are volumes of Zork lore and trivia out there on the internets, and this would normally be the paragraph that would sum it all up, but I hear in the distance the chirping of a sound bird, so …
Zork – Wikipedia article
The “Zork Library” – cool media/maps/pics
Zork source text
Play Zork (and other Infocom games) online (Java)
An interesting PHP implemntation of “Dungeon” (Zork)
Sancho Panza: “Many a man has gone to bed feeling well, only to wake up the next morning and find himself dead.”
Don Quixote: “That’s a proverb.”
Sancho Panza: “Yes, Your Grace.”
Don Quixote: “I don’t approve of them.”
Clarksville and Jeffersonville fire units got knock-out calls at 6:08 this morning. Psychomania was in flames. No injuries were reported, but the haunt itself looks like a total loss.
I spoke with co-owner Matt Kemp for a few minutes this morning. He and some of his crew had been working late into the night on Monday but hadn’t noticed anything unusual. The Trans-Lux theater, later known as the “Old Greentree 4″, had stood vacant for years before Matt and his business partner, Phil Grainger, rescued it from the wrecking ball four years ago.
Matt, in his typical upbeat fashion, was … typically upbeat. Nevertheless, this is a hard loss and our thoughts are with them.
Fire destroys Clarksville theater – Courier Journal