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A/N: For the two people who reviewed, Thank you very much, I really appreciate it. This is not a chronological
sequel to the first chapter, but a second in a series of IF scripts. This particular one was written as a
Birthday present to one of the greatest comic authors- and artists- I've seen, SaiyanRage.
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MAGMATIC MEMORIES
An interactive epic, Ben Herzog, 2001(C)
First time users should type "Help". To skip to the game, type "Begin".
HELP
This was written as a Gift-Fic for SayianRage's birthday. Happy boithday Saiyan, and I hope you enjoy this!
This "Interactive Fiction" (or I-F in short) responds to your commands. The parser used to assemble this piece was quite advanced and you sohuldn't encounter any "Guess the verb" puzzles. Examples for commands would be "OPEN DOOR" or "DROP KEYS". You can interact with characters either by telling them about things (TELL MAN ABOUT PEANUTS), asking them about things (ASK CLERK ABOUT BANK ACCOUNT) or commanding them (JOSEPH, MOVE THE CHAIR). The inspiration for this one pretty much came from Andrew Plotkin's "Shade". If you are ever stuck in the game type "HINT" To get an online hint system.
To start the game, type "Begin".
BEGIN
Your apartment. A blue tappetted, cold-themed, cool-atmosphered cube of a disturbing past, an aching present and a worrying future. It has been quite a while since you moved here; It took you time to find an apartment cheap enough for you to rent, after the unfortunate conflict with your father. Fortunately you had numerous friends to host you in the meantime. With the temporary job you could find, and the Money Lee heroically risked himself and smuggled from his huge allowence to you, you could afford this place.
Life as a motorcyclist, between potential hosters until you could find an apartment, were tough but exciting. It was a fresh feeling, being so close to the actual life, being almost a streetchild. Ironic was the thought, that you and Lee simply switched places. But unlike him, you could get along. Proof, here you are, in your very own apartment, sitting on your very own comfy chair in front of your working desk.
You simply had to get paperweights, since in those hot regions you couldn't live a second without air conditioning, and the "Genius" who installed it did it in a way (You could swear that he did it in purpose) that it blows directly on your papers. But the situation without it was tenfold worse than it was with it. Hence, you sent a request to everybody who knew to design their very own paperweights for you. It even helps you diagnose which paper goes where, and which paper is where.
After at long last you defeated your father for the first time, you didn't want to give up this apartment after all you've put into it, and you clung to it despite it being much smaller than the mishima mansion. It felt like true home. Lee was left in the mansion (much to his pleasure), and since then he has been working as your secretary. He even made you a crafted paperweight in the form of his car when you lacked one. Since then, you kept under it all papers regarding the main project right now- the King of Iron Fist Tournament 2, designed to lure your father out if he is truly alive as rumors say.
Your very own personal bedroom is behind a wooden door. And you can see the kitchen too, just a little nook where some basic appliences tidily fit.
Somehow, you are proud of the simplicity of this home.
But you are starting to feel thirsty.
GET UP
You pull yourself up slowly and walk a few steps. The air conditioning must have been set to full power; Since it doesn't feel a tiny bit warmer then it was under the air conditioner itself.
ENTER KITCHEN
You take a few steps into your kitchen.
Ah, your kitchen. Where you have a tradition of making simple, satisfying food, and proceed (with caution) to eat it. You felt quite dishonored, having to learn how to cook; But after all, it was the art that as long as you had money, guaranteed you full nutritions. And that's one of the thing a good fighter needs the most.
Funny, with all of those memories of cooking, you'd think that there'd be a range, or an oven, or even a toaster here. Not a single sign of any heating applience in the horizon. However the refrigerator you got on a second-hand sale about a week after you started to rent the apartment, and the kitchen sink that was left built in, are clearly here. And since your are thirsty right now, that is what matters. You can also see the dishwasher and trashcan, but no sign of a glass for water. Eerie.
OPEN DISHWASHER
You open the dishwasher to find a set of clean dishes, including bowls, plates, Forks, knives, Spoons, glasses, pans and several more 'kitchen tools' which's use you could never figure. That's just like you, worrying so much you forgot to empty the dishwasher. At least mystery of the missing glass was solved.
TAKE GLASS
Taken.
FILL GLASS WITH WATER
There is a squeaking, and the water start to pour down to the glass. You stop the flow when the glass is almost full.
DRINK WATER
You gulp down the water. A strange thought randomly roams your mind when you consume the water; The water are warm. Yet you set the temperature to cold. You assume that the outer pipework has been warmed by the massive heat outside and this is the result.
ENTER LIVING ROOM
you step into the living room.
Hmmmm. Your air conditioning seems to have malfunctioned, because the heat and humidity here are again at the unbearable level you had to suffer from before you graced yourself with the air conditioning. Also, the tappettes of the room are now yellow instead of blue. You might have ordered one of those tappetes that change color according to the temperature. If you did, you are sorry for it now, because the yellow tappetes look absolutely lame.
EXAMINE PILES OF PAPER
The piles contain so much paperwork that it'd be ages reading all of them; Most of them are plans for the King of Iron Fist Tournament 2. But just to be sure, you remove your Lee's-Car-shaped Paperweight and examine the papers. You come accross your ToDo list. You must have accidently filed it under TEKKEN2 material.
Well, all of the material is going to turn into history soon; Since the tournament has drawn to a close, and Heihachi Mishima is already waiting to challenge you for the position of leader of the Zaibatsu once again. A car is suppoused to take you to the arena where you will duke it out with old gramps who apparently just won't die.
EXAMINE WATCH
A quick checking of your watch shows that one minutes is left until the confrontation.
OPEN DOOR
Until the car arrives, there's no reason to do so.
READ TO-DO LIST
-Water the plant
EXAMINE PLANT
Yep, it definitely needs watering. It looks like it hadn't had any water for months.
The radio springs to life and starts to babble. The news are on. "An unidentified corpse has been found in the heart of a volcano today, although there are no signs of how it got there or who it is...." You nod your head. Poor guy, probably went to hike and fell into the volcano or something.
ENTER KITCHEN
you step into the kitchen.
FILL GLASS WITH WATER
The flow of water is strangely not warm, but boiling. Before you have time to react in any way, the waters grow warmer and warmer, and suddenly a flow of Lava emerges from where water previously poured. In front of your eyes, the whole sink melts into boiling Magma.
ENTER LIVING ROOM
Hmmm, the weather conditions must have gotten worse, since the tappete is now orange. strangely There is a small layer of Magma on the floor. It barely stings, unlike the furious burn you expect. Probably some sort of weird leak of magma into the pipework, or something... you don't know alot about plumbing so you just send wild guesses away.
A little yellow plant grows in its pot here. Your table with the piles of papers is here as always, as is your computer. An orange Tappette covers the wall. The air conditioning makes the air a bit more humid and warmer than it was before.
The radio goes again, "The burnt corpse that was found still cannot be identified..."... Old news. You turn off the radio.
LOOK IN MIRROR
You look in the mirror, and see a bunch of steaming, burnt, lifeless carbon.
You yelp, turn around and try to pretend you didn't see it and your imagination has fooled you.
ENTER BATHROOM
You enter the bathroom.
The bathroom, the place no house is complete without. Yours just came with the apartment. You can see a toilet and a little shower tube. The tiles are yellow and red. Strange, you remember them as white. And you don't recall them being remodeled in the past year.
What the fuck is going on?
TAKE A BATH
Cool water goes through the tiny holes of the showerhead. Then, like some sort of a twisted metamorphosis nightmare, they start to warm. and warm. And in a matter of seconds, they become TOO warm. You leap out of the bathroom, severely burnt and crying in pain, as the showerhead melts and the pipe itself starts to spit gallons and gallons of molten lava.
ENTER LIVING ROOM
Huh?
The red and yellow tile is now here, too. And it looks strangely... liquidish. You positively remember that it wasn't like that before you left. The air conditioner spits out unbearably hot and humid air. The pile of papers of TEKKEN2 (including the infamous paperweight) and your computer for that matter are on the verge of an advanced melting process.
TURN OFF AC
You touch the switch, but as you do so the AC malfunctions, and suddenly, as if on cue, molten Lava starts to thinly pour through the little holes which transferred air earlier. You yelp as your finger is burnt beyond repair and leap back, only to fall in a knee-deep layer of lava. It is quite warm and you get up, only to find out that your desk has melted, too.
LOOK AROUND
You see a mass of swirling lava, bounded by walls. The three doors for the kitchen, bathroom and bedroom melt down from the wall as if they were simply water-color drawings on the wall which were washed down by water.
The lava becomes unbearably warm at your feet. The walls suddenly give in, but don't exactly turn into lava- a part of them turns into Lava and flows down, but what remains suddenly hardens and becomes dark brown.
You can hear the car that's suppoused to take you honk.
OPEN DOOR
You start for the door, but the moment you even throw a gaze upon it it does exactly what the doors to your three subrooms did.
You are trapped.
The lava now literally roasts you alive.
***YOU HAVE DIED***
In this game you have scored 0 out of 0 points, and reached the ending.
You can now either (Q)uit, (R)estart or read the (E)pilogue.
E
A voice calls your name. "Kazuya?"
ASK WHO IS IT
"KAZUYA! IT WORKED! YOU'RE ALIVE!", the voice screams with happiness. This is a male voice. The only person you know that'd be happy if you were alive was female, Jun Kazama specifically. Also, you clearly remember dying in agony.
GET UP
you get up and face the person you've been talking to-
ohgosh.
"Hi, Lee.", you say Lamely.
"You're standing up and talking and all that, aren't you?", Lee answers in a triumphant voice.
"What happened... to my room? The bathroom? The magma?..."
"Huh? It's simple. A car took you from your house, you battled Heihachi, you lost. He threw you into a volcano."
"This is starting to look a bit far from a best-case scenario here-"
"You have missed alot. But it is time for you to make your ultimate comeback."
Is this just another illusion? You are not to know, never to know.
The Lava keeps flowing; But the magmatic memories stay burnt on, forever.
A/N: For the two people who reviewed, Thank you very much, I really appreciate it. This is not a chronological
sequel to the first chapter, but a second in a series of IF scripts. This particular one was written as a
Birthday present to one of the greatest comic authors- and artists- I've seen, SaiyanRage.
------------------------------------
MAGMATIC MEMORIES
An interactive epic, Ben Herzog, 2001(C)
First time users should type "Help". To skip to the game, type "Begin".
HELP
This was written as a Gift-Fic for SayianRage's birthday. Happy boithday Saiyan, and I hope you enjoy this!
This "Interactive Fiction" (or I-F in short) responds to your commands. The parser used to assemble this piece was quite advanced and you sohuldn't encounter any "Guess the verb" puzzles. Examples for commands would be "OPEN DOOR" or "DROP KEYS". You can interact with characters either by telling them about things (TELL MAN ABOUT PEANUTS), asking them about things (ASK CLERK ABOUT BANK ACCOUNT) or commanding them (JOSEPH, MOVE THE CHAIR). The inspiration for this one pretty much came from Andrew Plotkin's "Shade". If you are ever stuck in the game type "HINT" To get an online hint system.
To start the game, type "Begin".
BEGIN
Your apartment. A blue tappetted, cold-themed, cool-atmosphered cube of a disturbing past, an aching present and a worrying future. It has been quite a while since you moved here; It took you time to find an apartment cheap enough for you to rent, after the unfortunate conflict with your father. Fortunately you had numerous friends to host you in the meantime. With the temporary job you could find, and the Money Lee heroically risked himself and smuggled from his huge allowence to you, you could afford this place.
Life as a motorcyclist, between potential hosters until you could find an apartment, were tough but exciting. It was a fresh feeling, being so close to the actual life, being almost a streetchild. Ironic was the thought, that you and Lee simply switched places. But unlike him, you could get along. Proof, here you are, in your very own apartment, sitting on your very own comfy chair in front of your working desk.
You simply had to get paperweights, since in those hot regions you couldn't live a second without air conditioning, and the "Genius" who installed it did it in a way (You could swear that he did it in purpose) that it blows directly on your papers. But the situation without it was tenfold worse than it was with it. Hence, you sent a request to everybody who knew to design their very own paperweights for you. It even helps you diagnose which paper goes where, and which paper is where.
After at long last you defeated your father for the first time, you didn't want to give up this apartment after all you've put into it, and you clung to it despite it being much smaller than the mishima mansion. It felt like true home. Lee was left in the mansion (much to his pleasure), and since then he has been working as your secretary. He even made you a crafted paperweight in the form of his car when you lacked one. Since then, you kept under it all papers regarding the main project right now- the King of Iron Fist Tournament 2, designed to lure your father out if he is truly alive as rumors say.
Your very own personal bedroom is behind a wooden door. And you can see the kitchen too, just a little nook where some basic appliences tidily fit.
Somehow, you are proud of the simplicity of this home.
But you are starting to feel thirsty.
GET UP
You pull yourself up slowly and walk a few steps. The air conditioning must have been set to full power; Since it doesn't feel a tiny bit warmer then it was under the air conditioner itself.
ENTER KITCHEN
You take a few steps into your kitchen.
Ah, your kitchen. Where you have a tradition of making simple, satisfying food, and proceed (with caution) to eat it. You felt quite dishonored, having to learn how to cook; But after all, it was the art that as long as you had money, guaranteed you full nutritions. And that's one of the thing a good fighter needs the most.
Funny, with all of those memories of cooking, you'd think that there'd be a range, or an oven, or even a toaster here. Not a single sign of any heating applience in the horizon. However the refrigerator you got on a second-hand sale about a week after you started to rent the apartment, and the kitchen sink that was left built in, are clearly here. And since your are thirsty right now, that is what matters. You can also see the dishwasher and trashcan, but no sign of a glass for water. Eerie.
OPEN DISHWASHER
You open the dishwasher to find a set of clean dishes, including bowls, plates, Forks, knives, Spoons, glasses, pans and several more 'kitchen tools' which's use you could never figure. That's just like you, worrying so much you forgot to empty the dishwasher. At least mystery of the missing glass was solved.
TAKE GLASS
Taken.
FILL GLASS WITH WATER
There is a squeaking, and the water start to pour down to the glass. You stop the flow when the glass is almost full.
DRINK WATER
You gulp down the water. A strange thought randomly roams your mind when you consume the water; The water are warm. Yet you set the temperature to cold. You assume that the outer pipework has been warmed by the massive heat outside and this is the result.
ENTER LIVING ROOM
you step into the living room.
Hmmmm. Your air conditioning seems to have malfunctioned, because the heat and humidity here are again at the unbearable level you had to suffer from before you graced yourself with the air conditioning. Also, the tappettes of the room are now yellow instead of blue. You might have ordered one of those tappetes that change color according to the temperature. If you did, you are sorry for it now, because the yellow tappetes look absolutely lame.
EXAMINE PILES OF PAPER
The piles contain so much paperwork that it'd be ages reading all of them; Most of them are plans for the King of Iron Fist Tournament 2. But just to be sure, you remove your Lee's-Car-shaped Paperweight and examine the papers. You come accross your ToDo list. You must have accidently filed it under TEKKEN2 material.
Well, all of the material is going to turn into history soon; Since the tournament has drawn to a close, and Heihachi Mishima is already waiting to challenge you for the position of leader of the Zaibatsu once again. A car is suppoused to take you to the arena where you will duke it out with old gramps who apparently just won't die.
EXAMINE WATCH
A quick checking of your watch shows that one minutes is left until the confrontation.
OPEN DOOR
Until the car arrives, there's no reason to do so.
READ TO-DO LIST
-Water the plant
EXAMINE PLANT
Yep, it definitely needs watering. It looks like it hadn't had any water for months.
The radio springs to life and starts to babble. The news are on. "An unidentified corpse has been found in the heart of a volcano today, although there are no signs of how it got there or who it is...." You nod your head. Poor guy, probably went to hike and fell into the volcano or something.
ENTER KITCHEN
you step into the kitchen.
FILL GLASS WITH WATER
The flow of water is strangely not warm, but boiling. Before you have time to react in any way, the waters grow warmer and warmer, and suddenly a flow of Lava emerges from where water previously poured. In front of your eyes, the whole sink melts into boiling Magma.
ENTER LIVING ROOM
Hmmm, the weather conditions must have gotten worse, since the tappete is now orange. strangely There is a small layer of Magma on the floor. It barely stings, unlike the furious burn you expect. Probably some sort of weird leak of magma into the pipework, or something... you don't know alot about plumbing so you just send wild guesses away.
A little yellow plant grows in its pot here. Your table with the piles of papers is here as always, as is your computer. An orange Tappette covers the wall. The air conditioning makes the air a bit more humid and warmer than it was before.
The radio goes again, "The burnt corpse that was found still cannot be identified..."... Old news. You turn off the radio.
LOOK IN MIRROR
You look in the mirror, and see a bunch of steaming, burnt, lifeless carbon.
You yelp, turn around and try to pretend you didn't see it and your imagination has fooled you.
ENTER BATHROOM
You enter the bathroom.
The bathroom, the place no house is complete without. Yours just came with the apartment. You can see a toilet and a little shower tube. The tiles are yellow and red. Strange, you remember them as white. And you don't recall them being remodeled in the past year.
What the fuck is going on?
TAKE A BATH
Cool water goes through the tiny holes of the showerhead. Then, like some sort of a twisted metamorphosis nightmare, they start to warm. and warm. And in a matter of seconds, they become TOO warm. You leap out of the bathroom, severely burnt and crying in pain, as the showerhead melts and the pipe itself starts to spit gallons and gallons of molten lava.
ENTER LIVING ROOM
Huh?
The red and yellow tile is now here, too. And it looks strangely... liquidish. You positively remember that it wasn't like that before you left. The air conditioner spits out unbearably hot and humid air. The pile of papers of TEKKEN2 (including the infamous paperweight) and your computer for that matter are on the verge of an advanced melting process.
TURN OFF AC
You touch the switch, but as you do so the AC malfunctions, and suddenly, as if on cue, molten Lava starts to thinly pour through the little holes which transferred air earlier. You yelp as your finger is burnt beyond repair and leap back, only to fall in a knee-deep layer of lava. It is quite warm and you get up, only to find out that your desk has melted, too.
LOOK AROUND
You see a mass of swirling lava, bounded by walls. The three doors for the kitchen, bathroom and bedroom melt down from the wall as if they were simply water-color drawings on the wall which were washed down by water.
The lava becomes unbearably warm at your feet. The walls suddenly give in, but don't exactly turn into lava- a part of them turns into Lava and flows down, but what remains suddenly hardens and becomes dark brown.
You can hear the car that's suppoused to take you honk.
OPEN DOOR
You start for the door, but the moment you even throw a gaze upon it it does exactly what the doors to your three subrooms did.
You are trapped.
The lava now literally roasts you alive.
***YOU HAVE DIED***
In this game you have scored 0 out of 0 points, and reached the ending.
You can now either (Q)uit, (R)estart or read the (E)pilogue.
E
A voice calls your name. "Kazuya?"
ASK WHO IS IT
"KAZUYA! IT WORKED! YOU'RE ALIVE!", the voice screams with happiness. This is a male voice. The only person you know that'd be happy if you were alive was female, Jun Kazama specifically. Also, you clearly remember dying in agony.
GET UP
you get up and face the person you've been talking to-
ohgosh.
"Hi, Lee.", you say Lamely.
"You're standing up and talking and all that, aren't you?", Lee answers in a triumphant voice.
"What happened... to my room? The bathroom? The magma?..."
"Huh? It's simple. A car took you from your house, you battled Heihachi, you lost. He threw you into a volcano."
"This is starting to look a bit far from a best-case scenario here-"
"You have missed alot. But it is time for you to make your ultimate comeback."
Is this just another illusion? You are not to know, never to know.
The Lava keeps flowing; But the magmatic memories stay burnt on, forever.
