Real Life As A Text Game

January 2008

 

This IM conversation with Sylanae's player got started after discussing the correct syntax to use for doing some thing in alchemy.

 

Sylanae [3:54 A.M.]: The syntax is pretty easy

Danay [3:54 A.M.]: yeah i read it on the boards

Sylanae [3:54 A.M.]: CHEATER!

Sylanae [3:55 A.M.]: bwahaha!

Danay [3:55 A.M.]: i don't consider learning proper commands to be cheating since my character could figure out how to use a pestle without needing to know a specific command :p

Sylanae [3:55 A.M.]: Suuuuuure

Danay [3:55 A.M.]: thank god RL doesn't include knowing the right word to do things! LOL!

Danay [3:56 A.M.]: can you imagine?

Sylanae [3:56 A.M.]: I'd learn how to sleep and eat and that's about it.

Danay [3:56 A.M.]: hehehehe

Sylanae [3:56 A.M.]: Well.. and go to the bathroom

Danay [3:56 A.M.]: eat soup

Danay [3:56 A.M.]: eat what?

Danay [3:56 A.M.]: drink soup

Danay [3:56 A.M.]: you take a drink from your bowl of soup

Sylanae [3:56 A.M.]: You'd get so annoyed you'd end up starving to death

Danay [3:56 A.M.]: go toilet

Danay [3:57 A.M.]: you take a few steps towards a toilet

Danay [3:57 A.M.]: sit toilet

Danay [3:57 A.M.]: you sit down

Danay [3:57 A.M.]: stand

Danay [3:57 A.M.]: sit on toilet

Danay [3:57 A.M.]: you sit down on the toilet

Sylanae [3:58 A.M.]: out You attempt to leave the bathroom but are blocked by an unseen force.

Sylanae [3:58 A.M.]: wash hands

Danay [3:58 A.M.]: laugh!

Danay [3:58 A.M.]: first you'd need to turn faucet

Danay [3:58 A.M.]: you can't turn that

Danay [3:58 A.M.]: snickers

Sylanae [3:58 A.M.]: No way, I'm installing the kind they have at the airport. No verbs needed!

Danay [3:59 A.M.]: hah!

Danay [3:59 A.M.]: in a movie theatre bathroom

Danay [3:59 A.M.]: get paper

Danay [3:59 A.M.]: you try to get a piece of toilet paper but only shred it

Danay [3:59 A.M.]: get paper

Danay [3:59 A.M.]: you get a teensy piece of very thin toilet paper

Danay [4:00 A.M.]: get paper get paper get paper get paper

Sylanae [4:01 A.M.]: look You are in a movie theater bathroom stall. There is a box of tissue attached to the wall behind the toilet. Gleaming dully is a small metal container holding a roll. Obvious exits: out.

Sylanae [4:01 A.M.]: look roll

Sylanae [4:01 A.M.]: the roll is empty

Sylanae [4:01 A.M.]: swear

Danay [4:01 A.M.]: ROFL!

Sylanae [4:01 A.M.]: inventory You are wearing your regular street clothes. You also notice a stray piece of toilet paper stuck to your shoe.

Danay [4:02 A.M.]: hehehehe

Sylanae [4:02 A.M.]: We should totally write a txt based game called Real Life!

Danay [4:02 A.M.]: laugh!

Danay [4:02 A.M.]: that would be a text version of the sims

Sylanae [4:04 A.M.]: remove toilet paper from shoe d100 (Open): -133 You reach down but fail to grasp the toilet paper, fumbling so badly your hand lands in a sticky puddle!

Danay [4:04 A.M.]: cackles

Sylanae [4:04 A.M.]: We need help.

Danay [4:04 A.M.]: hehehe

Danay [4:05 A.M.]: geeks r us

Sylanae [4:05 A.M.]: No kidding!

Sylanae [4:05 A.M.]: Scott would find this completely unfunny.

Danay [4:05 A.M.]: yeah...stupid normal people

Sylanae [4:06 A.M.]: Don't know what they are missing!