Jigsaw (text adventure)

used44

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Hey gang, let's play this classic text adventure as a group. I did this once before with Zork and it went pretty well for a little while, I think.

I'll use your action suggestions on a first-come basis. Try to keep your verbs simple -- remember the golden trinity "go, look, get" -- and we'll get through this damn thing together.

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JIGSAW
An Interactive History
Copyright (c) 1995 by Graham Nelson
Release 3 / Serial number 951129 / Inform v1600 Library 6/1
Standard interpreter 1.0
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Prologue - Century Park

New Year's Eve, 1999, a quarter to midnight and where else to be but Century Park! Fireworks cascade across the sky, your stomach rumbles uneasily, music and lasers howl across the parkland... Not exactly your ideal party (especially as that rather
attractive stranger in black has slipped back into the crowds) - but cheer up, you won't live to see the next.

CENTURY PARK
At one side of the great Park, on a gravel path which runs west to northeast beside poplar trees. Crowds of celebrants are enjoying themselves to the north, having abandoned the canvas marquee east.

>
 
>look at self

As good-looking as ever.

This party is giving you a headache.

>
 
> go east

TIME: 11:46 PM

BEER TENT
Hours ago, this was a popular beer tent; long since, the drink ran out and the party moved on, leaving just canvas walls and bare benches.

Sticking out of an unpleasant baked potato is a sparkler, still fizzing away.

The canvas flutters slightly and you can just make out that figure in black rushing away back to the park. It must be that tantalising stranger again - who else would be wearing black at this party?

>
 
> Get baked potato

That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game.

> Go north

The heavy canvas is in the way and, although there's clearly something bulky stacked up behind the southern side, you can only go back west.

TIME 11:47PM

>
 
> Go west

CENTURY PARK

TIME 11:48PM

Somebody (and you have a pretty good idea who) seems to have dropped, of all things, a jigsaw piece here.

There is a huge cheer from the distant centre of the crowd.

>
 
> Look at jigsaw piece

TIME: 11:49 PM

A large jigsaw piece, six inches on a side and square. It's a dull grey-white, perhaps depicting the middle of a prison van.

It is currently this way up:

> Get jigsaw piece

TIME: 11:49 PM

Taken.

[Your score has just gone up by one point.]

> Look at crowd

TIME: 11:49 PM

Everybody else seems to be having a good time. Why not you?

This party is giving you a headache

> Go north

TIME: 11:50 PM

But, that way lies the party. The crowd, the miasma of celebration for something you never wanted to celebrate in the first place. You know you'll succumb in the end, but for now you can't bear the idea.

> Go south

TIME: 11:50 PM

There are only trees and railings that way.

> Go west

TIME: 11:51 PM

KALDECKI'S MONUMENT
A corner of the Park, beside copses of trees and some fencing. Standing about here is the outdoor equivalent to always being in the kitchen at parties.

The pyramidal Monument, built by the (very eccentric) Hungarian who laid out the park, dominates this corner. It isn't very pleasing to the eye. Although the party's organisers planned to bounce flashy lasers off the tip, somehow they don't seem to have
got round to it.

>
 
> Go inside monument

You can't, since the Monument is in the way.

> Look at monument

A crazy, pyramid-like construction, the height of a small tree, but wide at the base. Walking around it, you see no obvious beginning or end.

KALDECKI'S MONUMENT TIME: 11:52 PM

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