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While waiting for the other game, we started The Lurking Horror by Infocom‘s Dave Lebling (assets.chaos.social)
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While waiting for the other game, we started The Lurking Horror by Infocom‘s Dave Lebling. Boy does it have done intense and good writing!#interactivefiction #retrogaming

Our CRT screen displacing the text adventure where we managed to log onto the PC.
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[–] [S] 1 point 10 months ago (10 children)

YAK editor. I love it. This is from 1987!#gnu #emacs

The game saying we are using the YAK editor to edit our term paper.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 10 months ago (9 children)

    Anyway: our term paper seems screwed up and has transformed into an occult translation.

    Our term paper listing something about offerings and a sacrifice.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 10 months ago (8 children)

    And just like that we lose consciousness and end up in a nightmare. Again, the setting and writing are great.

    Our character faults and wakes up in a dark, nightmarish place.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 10 months ago (7 children)

    Meanwhile we managed to get to the top of the great dome. And there is a tentacle monster! Luckily it runs away.

    We climb up a wet rope using the electrician gloves that we found. The rope was a tentacle!

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 10 months ago (6 children)

    We managed to get off of the dome by using the ladder on the catwalk. It was a bit finicky to figure out the correct phrasing, but we managed it.

    Hang ladder on catwalk was the correct phrasing.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 10 months ago (5 children)

    We did figure out how to stop the waxing machine, but we needed the Invisiclues to figure out that we need the wax to stop the maintenance man. We did temporarily disable him with the stone we acquired during the nightmare... But it did not work permanently. We will keep that in mind!

    ![> cut cord with axe The axe crashes againsr the floor, the power cord severs! The whine of the Floor waxer slows, and the maintenance man jerks to alertness.

    pour wax It pours and spreads like ants at a picnic. Now covered The floor is now covered from wall to wall with slippery floor wax. The maintenance Man, growling foul-sounding imprecations descends from the floor waxer and heads towards you. But almost immediately, he slips on the floor wax.](https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/115/853/952/069/547/852/original/0038c8de753ee8ab.jpeg)

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 10 months ago (4 children)

    We also tried waiting and maiming the man with our other tools. But it invariably ended fatally.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    It took us the #invisiclues to look into the access panel! It was so obvious.#lurkinghorror #interactivefiction

    We find a flashlight in the elevator access panel.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    And what do you know! The flashlight opens up a couple of before unknown rooms!

    We are in the basement, discovering the dead storage, full of rotting pallets of junk.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    And now the forklift comes into play. This puzzle is actually very straightforward and logical. But the fact we have to move the pallets four or five times is a bit excessive…

    We move the rotten pallets using the forklift.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago

    We discover a manhole (conveniently opened with the crowbar) that leads down to another level of basement or maybe sewers. It leads to a cave with an ominous slab. I bet this is an altar for sacrifices. Isn’t it?

    We are in a renovated cave with a three foot high round slab made from granite.

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