TDWTF Plays The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Pub Score: 10 Moves: 20
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.
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.>
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@error_bot save
pub
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Please enter a filename [towel]: Okay.
>
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@error_bot buy sandwich
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Pub Score: 10 Moves: 21
The barman gives you a cheese sandwich. The bread is like the stuff that
stereos come packed in, the cheese would be great for rubbing out spelling
mistakes, and margarine and pickle have performed an unedifying chemical
reaction to produce something that shouldn't be, but is, turquoise. Since
it is clearly unfit for human consumption you are grateful to be charged
only a pound for it.Ford hurries after you.
>
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@error_bot drink beer
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Pub Score: 10 Moves: 22
You'd better buy some first.
Ford buys lots of beer and offers half to you. "Muscle relaxant..." he
says, impenetrably.>
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@error_bot drink beer
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Pub Score: 15 Moves: 23
It's very good beer, brewed by a small local company. You particularly like
its flavour, which is why you woke up feeling so wretched this morning. You
were at somebody's birthday party here in the Pub last night.You begin to relax and enjoy yourself, so when Ford mentions that he's from
a small planet in the vicinity of Betelgeuse, not from Guildford as he
usually claims, you take it in your stride, and say, "Oh yes, which part?">
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@error_bot drink beer
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Pub Score: 20 Moves: 24
It is really very pleasant stuff, with a very good dry, nutty flavour, some
light froth on top, and a deep colour. It is at exactly room temperature.
You reflect that the world cannot be all bad when there are such pleasures
in it.Ford mentions that the world is going to end in about twelve minutes.
>
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@error_bot drink beer
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Pub Score: 25 Moves: 25
There is a distant crash which Ford explains is nothing to worry about,
probably just your house being knocked down.>
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@error_bot exit pub
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Country Lane Score: 25 Moves: 26
Country Lane
You see the huge bulldozer heaving itself among the cloud of brick dust
which is all that remains of your home. As you start up the lane, a small
dog runs up to you, yapping.Ford hurries after you.
>
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@error_bot give sandwich to dog
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Country Lane Score: 25 Moves: 27
The dog is deeply moved. With powerful sweeps of its tail it indicates that
it regards this cheese sandwich as one of the great cheese sandwiches. Nine
out of ten pet owners could happen by at this point expressing any
preference they pleased, but this dog would spurn both them and all their
tins. This is a dog which has met its main sandwich. It eats with passion,
and ignores a passing microscopic space fleet.>
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@error_bot look
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Country Lane Score: 25 Moves: 28
Country Lane
The road runs from your home, to the north, toward the village Pub, to the
west.
Ford Prefect is here.
There is a dog here.>
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@error_bot north
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Front of House Score: 25 Moves: 29
You reach the site of what was your home. It is now a pile of rubble. Mr.
Prosser looks sheepishly triumphant, a trick few people can do, as it
requires a lot of technically complex deltoid muscle work.Front of House
Mr. Prosser, from the local council, is standing on the other side of the
bulldozer. He seems to be wearing a digital watch.Ford hurries after you.
>
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@error_bot look
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Front of House Score: 25 Moves: 30
Front of House
There is a huge pile of rubble to the north. A path leads around it to the
northeast and northwest, and a country lane is visible to the south.
Ford Prefect is here.
Mr. Prosser, from the local council, is standing on the other side of the
bulldozer. He seems to be wearing a digital watch.>
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@error_bot take digital watch
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Front of House Score: 25 Moves: 31
You can't. It's not yours. It's Prosser's and it's private.
With a noise like a cross between Led Zeppelin's farewell concert and the
eruption of Krakatoa, a huge fleet of Vogon Constructor ships flies
overhead and announces that the Earth will be demolished to make way for a
new hyperspace bypass in "two of your Earth minutes."In all the turmoil, you drop the thing your aunt gave you which you don't
know what it is and it rolls away. It is the least of your worries. Anyway,
you've been trying to get rid of it for years.>
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@error_bot punch prosser
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Front of House Score: 25 Moves: 32
You muck up all his fancy facial work. This is the last moment of
satisfaction you will experience for some time.The vast yellow ships thunder across the sky, spreading waves of terror and
panic in their wake. The voice of the Vogon Captain slams across the
country, insisting that the planning charts and demolition orders have been
available at the local planning office in Alpha Centauri for fifty years
and it's too late to start making a fuss about it now.Throughout the noise, Ford is shouting at you. He removes a small black
device from his satchel, but accidentally drops it at your feet.>
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@error_bot pick up device
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Front of House Score: 25 Moves: 33
Taken.
Fierce gales whip across the land, and thunder bangs continuously through
the air in the wake of the giant ships. Ford fights to reach you, but the
wind is too fierce. Further announcements from the Vogon Captain make it
clear that demolition will begin in just a few seconds.Through the blinding rain, you see lights flickering on the small device.
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@error_bot activate device
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Front of House Score: 25 Moves: 34
You can't turn that on.
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@error_bot examine device
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The electronic Sub-Etha signaling device is shaped like a small fist with
an extended thumb. Various lights along its "knuckles" are currently
blinking wildly, indicating a spaceship in the vicinity. It has two small
buttons, a red one labelled "Call Engineer" and a green one labelled
"Hitchhike." It bears a small label which reads "Another fine product of
the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation." Affixed to the Thumb is a lifetime
guarantee.
The Earth is destroyed by the fleet of Vogon Constructor ships.\*\*\*\* You have died \*\*\*\*
We are about to give you your score. Put on your peril-sensitive sunglasses
now. (Hit RETURN or ENTER when ready.) >
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@error_bot ok
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Your score is 25 of a possible 400, in 34 turns.
Would you like to start over, restore a saved position, get hints or end
this session of the game?
(Type RESTART, RESTORE, HINTS or QUIT):
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@error_bot restore
bar
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Please enter a filename [pub]: Failed.
Would you like to start over, restore a saved position, get hints or end
this session of the game?
(Type RESTART, RESTORE, HINTS or QUIT):
>
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@error_bot restore
pub
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Please enter a filename [bar]: Pub Score: 10 Moves: 20
Okay.
Pub
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.>
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@error_bot buy sandwich
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Pub Score: 10 Moves: 21
The barman gives you a cheese sandwich. The bread is like the stuff that
stereos come packed in, the cheese would be great for rubbing out spelling
mistakes, and margarine and pickle have performed an unedifying chemical
reaction to produce something that shouldn't be, but is, turquoise. Since
it is clearly unfit for human consumption you are grateful to be charged
only a pound for it.Ford hurries after you.
>
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@error_bot examine shelf
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Pub Score: 10 Moves: 22
On the shelf behind the bar is the usual array of bottles, glasses and
soggy beermats, and some packets of peanuts.Ford buys lots of beer and offers half to you. "Muscle relaxant..." he
says, impenetrably.>
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@error_bot drink beer
drink beer
drink beer
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Pub Score: 15 Moves: 23
It's very good beer, brewed by a small local company. You particularly like
its flavour, which is why you woke up feeling so wretched this morning. You
were at somebody's birthday party here in the Pub last night.You begin to relax and enjoy yourself, so when Ford mentions that he's from
a small planet in the vicinity of Betelgeuse, not from Guildford as he
usually claims, you take it in your stride, and say, "Oh yes, which part?"> Pub Score: 20 Moves: 24
It is really very pleasant stuff, with a very good dry, nutty flavour, some
light froth on top, and a deep colour. It is at exactly room temperature.
You reflect that the world cannot be all bad when there are such pleasures
in it.Ford mentions that the world is going to end in about twelve minutes.
> Pub Score: 25 Moves: 25
There is a distant crash which Ford explains is nothing to worry about,
probably just your house being knocked down.>
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@error_bot exit pub
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Country Lane Score: 25 Moves: 26
Country Lane
You see the huge bulldozer heaving itself among the cloud of brick dust
which is all that remains of your home. As you start up the lane, a small
dog runs up to you, yapping.Ford hurries after you.
>
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@error_bot give sandwich to dog
save
dog
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Country Lane Score: 25 Moves: 27
The dog is deeply moved. With powerful sweeps of its tail it indicates that
it regards this cheese sandwich as one of the great cheese sandwiches. Nine
out of ten pet owners could happen by at this point expressing any
preference they pleased, but this dog would spurn both them and all their
tins. This is a dog which has met its main sandwich. It eats with passion,
and ignores a passing microscopic space fleet.>Please enter a filename [pub]: Okay.
>
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@error_bot look