TDWTF Plays The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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@Maciejasjmj you get it off ford prefect
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@error_bot turn on light
take gown
open pocket
take analgesic
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Bedroom, in the bed Score: 0 Moves: 1
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Good start to the day. Pity it's going to be the worst one of your life.
The light is now on.Bedroom, in the bed
The bedroom is a mess.
It is a small bedroom with a faded carpet and old wallpaper. There is a
washbasin, a chair with a tatty dressing gown slung over it, and a window
with the curtains drawn. Near the exit leading south is a phone.
There is a flathead screwdriver here. (outside the bed)
There is a toothbrush here. (outside the bed)> > Bedroom, in the bed Score: 0 Moves: 2
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You can't reach it from the bed. The effort almost kills you.> > Bedroom, in the bed Score: 0 Moves: 3
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It's hard to open or close the pocket unless you're wearing the gown.> > You can't see any analgesic here!
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@error_bot leave bed
take gown
open pocket
take analgesic
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Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 4
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Very difficult, but you manage it. The room is still spinning. It dips and
sways a little.> > Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 5
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Luckily, this is large enough for you to get hold of. You notice something
in the pocket.> > Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 6
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It's hard to open or close the pocket unless you're wearing the gown.> > You can't see any analgesic here!
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@error_bot wear gown
open pocket
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Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 7
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You are now wearing your gown.> > Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 8
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Opening your gown reveals a buffered analgesic, pocket fluff, and a thing
your aunt gave you which you don't know what it is.> >
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@error_bot take analgesic
take all
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Bedroom Score: 10 Moves: 9
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You swallow the tablet. After a few seconds the room begins to calm down
and behave in an orderly manner. Your terrible headache goes.> > Bedroom Score: 10 Moves: 10
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flathead screwdriver: Taken.
toothbrush: As you pick up the toothbrush a tree outside the window
collapses. There is no causal relationship between these two events.
telephone: You pick up the receiver. A moment later, the dialing tone is
suddenly cut off. Glancing through the window you can't help but notice the
large old oak tree of which you are particularly fond crashing down through
the phone cable. Shouldn't you be taking more interest in events in the
world around you? While you've got it...?> >
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@error_bot s
take mail
s
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Front Porch Score: 10 Moves: 11
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You make your way down to the front porch.Front Porch
This is the enclosed front porch of your home. Your front garden lies to
the south, and you can reenter your home to the north.
On the doormat is a pile of junk mail.> > Front Porch Score: 10 Moves: 12
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You gather up the pile of mail.> > Front of House Score: 10 Moves: 13
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Front of House
You can enter your home to the north. A path leads around it to the
northeast and northwest, and a country lane is visible to the south. All
that lies between your home and the huge yellow bulldozer bearing down on
it is a few yards of mud.
Mr. Prosser, from the local council, is standing on the other side of the
bulldozer. He seems to be wearing a digital watch. He looks startled to see
you emerge, and yells at you to get out of the way.The bulldozer rumbles slowly toward your home.
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@error_bot lie in front of bulldozer
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Front of House, lying down Score: 10 Moves: 14
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You lie down in the path of the advancing bulldozer. Prosser yells at you
to for crissake move!!!> >
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@error_bot wait
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Front of House, lying down Score: 10 Moves: 15
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Time passes...The bulldozer thunders toward you. The ground is shaking beneath you as you
lie in the mud.> >
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@error_bot wait
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Front of House, lying down Score: 10 Moves: 16
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Time passes...The noise of the giant bulldozer is now so violently loud that you can't
even hear Prosser yelling to warn you that you will be killed if you don't
get the hell out of the way. You just see him gesticulating wildly.> >
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@error_bot wait
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Front of House, lying down Score: 10 Moves: 17
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Time passes...With a terrible grinding of gears the bulldozer comes to an abrupt halt
just in front of you. It shakes, shudders, and emits noxious substances all
over your rose bed. Prosser is incoherent with rage.Moments later, your friend Ford Prefect arrives. He hardly seems to notice
your predicament, but keeps glancing nervously at the sky. He says, "Hello,
Arthur," takes a towel from his battered leather satchel, and offers it to
you.> >
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@error_bot what about my house
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Front of House, lying down Score: 10 Moves: 18
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Well, what about it?Ford glances uncomfortably at the sky. He offers you the towel again.
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@error_bot ford, what about my house
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Front of House, lying down Score: 10 Moves: 19
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"It's not a house, it's a home." (Footnote 2)Ford seems oblivious to your trouble, so you ask "Ford, what about my
home?" He looks startled, then guilty. He starts to say something and
stops. He starts to say something else and stops. Suddenly, he seems to see
the bulldozer for the first time, stops starting to say things and starts.He seems to come to a momentous decision, says he has something of Earth-
shattering importance to tell you, and stresses the importance of a quick
drink at the Horse 'n Groom.Pointing toward Prosser, you exclaim, "But that man wants to knock my house
down!" Ford goes off for a quiet word with Prosser. From where you're
lying, you cannot hear what's happening, although they seem deeply
engrossed in conversation.> >
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@error_bot wait
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Front of House, lying down Score: 10 Moves: 21
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Time passes...Ford and Prosser stop talking and approach you. Ford says that Prosser has
agreed to lie in your place so that the two of you can go off to the Pub.
Reluctantly, Prosser steps forward and lies down in front of the bulldozer.
You stand up.> >
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@error_bot save
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Please enter a filename [x/I]:
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@error_bot house
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Okay.
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@Maciejasjmj said in TDWTF Plays The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
@error, is it possible to turn command echo on or something? Would be helpful to know what we're doing when inputting multiple commands.
The other games echo'd automatically. I could possibly add an
echo
flag to surrogate-host...
Edit: ...but that would just echo at the top of the message, not much different than reading the post above it. I'm not sure how to tell the exact moment when thestdin
buffer gets read by the child process.It might be worth the effort because this one is running on dumb-frotz, which is capable of running all the others. Seems more stable than the MS DOS emulator I was using.
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@error_bot \mp
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More prompts OFF
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@error_bot \lt
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Line-type display OFF
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@error said in TDWTF Plays The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
Edit: ...but that would just echo at the top of the message, not much different than reading the post above it. I'm not sure how to tell the exact moment when the
stdin
buffer gets read by the child process.How about:
- print one line of input to post
- print one line of input to game
- read output from game until it does not produce any for some length of time.
- write output from game to post
- if more input available, goto 1.
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@PleegWat Plausible.
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@error_bot wait
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Front of House, lying down Score: 10 Moves: 23
Time passes...
Ford, urging you to follow, hurries toward the country lane.
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@error_bot follow ford
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Country Lane Score: 10 Moves: 24
In a state of anxiety and confusion you follow Ford down the lane...
Country Lane
The road runs from your home, to the north, toward the village Pub, to the
west.
Ford Prefect is here."Come along, Arthur," says Ford impatiently, and enters the Pub.
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Pub Score: 10 Moves: 25
Pub
The Pub is pleasant and cheerful and full of pleasant and cheerful people
who don't know they've got about twelve minutes to live and are therefore
having a spot of lunch. Some music is playing on an old jukebox. The exit
is east.
Ford Prefect is here.
There is a barman serving at the bar.
Behind the bar is a shelf. It is full of the sort of items you find on
shelves behind bars in pubs.Ford buys lots of beer and offers half to you. "Muscle relaxant..." he
says, impenetrably.>
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@error_bot examine shelves
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Pub Score: 10 Moves: 26
On the shelf behind the bar is the usual array of bottles, glasses and
soggy beermats, some packets of peanuts, and a plate of uninviting cheese
sandwiches."Drink the beer," urges Ford. "It will help cushion your system against the
coming shock of the matter transference beam.">
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@error_bot ask for peanuts
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That sentence isn't one I recognise.
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@error_bot get all
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Pub Score: 10 Moves: 27
cheese sandwich: The barman snaps "Hands off until you pay for it!"
peanuts: The barman snaps "Hands off until you pay for it!""Drink the beer," urges Ford. "It will help cushion your system against the
coming shock of the matter transference beam.">
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@error_bot give money to barman
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I don't know the word "money".
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