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Text Adventure Playthrough #10: Bureaucracy
Since we’re here. why not give him 54 bucks or buy his trash. I want to see what happens. 
@Karlok: thanks!
I hope you had a fine day, though, great weather for skating/cycling or just taking a walk.
Skating!?! At my age? No thanks. And please don’t tell me about your 92-year old gran who goes skating three times a week. 
PROM, NAPOL, PROM! - The Rise of the Golden Idol
Since we’re here. why not give him 54 bucks or buy his trash. I want to see what happens.
Unless I’m mistaken, you had $75, then paid $4.50 for the burger and $17.50 for the cab, leaving you with - of course - only $53.
while we’re here, we could >ask the nerd about:
hacking
RANDOM Q HACKER
rainbow turtle
and just for future reference:
717-4994 - the (phone) number for our previous address
771-7370 - the number after being altered by the nerd
Since we’re here. why not give him 54 bucks or buy his trash. I want to see what happens.
The item he’s selling is always $1 more than we have at the time. Typical. 
>ask nerd about hacking
[The word “hacking” hasn’t been approved for use in this story.]
[Your blood pressure just went up.]
>ask nerd about RANDOM Q HACKER
[This story isn’t allowed to recognise the word “random.”]
[Your blood pressure just went up.]
>ask nerd about rainbow turtle
[The word “rainbow” hasn’t been approved for use in this story.]
[Your blood pressure just went up.]
>
and just for future reference:
717-4994 - the (phone) number for our previous address
771-7370 - the number after being altered by the nerd
Did the phone number really change? I thought it was just randomized at the start. The game was restarted a few pages into the thread because of a broken game data file, so that may have been when the number changed. (I didn’t look through the whole thread to check though.)
My dear fellow Victims,
I feel like I’m waiting for Godot.
No-one is going to help us. Sniff.
We’re left to our own devices.
Let’s get on with it!
PROM, NAPOL, PROM! - The Rise of the Golden Idol
It’s always interesting to see these playthroughs of a game you’ve already played. People will just breeze through puzzles I would never have figured out without hints, only to get stuck on things that barely even gave me a pause. You all made it through the maze with barely any hesitation, yet seemed daunted by the locker door with the three levers.
That’s not meant as critique, of course. It’s just interesting to see how differently people think about these things.
Though in my case, it’s a bit difficult to be entirely sure. Back then, it seemed all but impossible to find any Infocom games in stores - at least not for the Macintosh - so I had to make do with whatever information I could find in magazines: Articles, interviews, reviews… and the occasional hint section.
So by the time I actually got to play the games (which was primarily, though not entirely, around or after Infocom went out of business), a couple of puzzles had already been spoiled for me. I’m pretty sure the Buraucracy maze was one of them, and I still think it’s far-fetched. The levers, though, seemed pretty obvious. Maybe they just reminded me of a lever puzzle in Shadowgate?
As for the current puzzle, it’s obvious th{#`%${%&`+’${`%*NO CARRIER
Interacting with the nerd directly seems useless and aggravating.
Can we go through the door and back to the modular plug?
My dear fellow Victims,
I feel like I’m waiting for Godot.
No-one is going to help us. Sniff.
We’re left to our own devices.
Let’s get on with it!
I thought we were doing that, while simultaneously waiting for zobraks and the others to catch up. But don’t ask me 
Interacting with the nerd directly seems useless and aggravating.
Can we go through the door and back to the modular plug?
Which door? The one at the end of the corridor vanished after we went through it.
Persecution Complex
You are in the Persecution Complex. It is a long brightly lit hall running east, with 3 TV screens on each side of the hall. The screens resemble the security monitors one might find at a guard’s station. There is an exit to the west.
There’s a modular plug here.
>
>plug computer into plug
ID: RANDOM Q HACKER
Ok, 2 points:
1. A space is an “illegal character” so I can only put the ID as RANDOMQHACKER
2. The computer asks for a password after entering an ID. And it doesn’t even let me see what i’m typing, which is annoying
Nope. It just returns us to the enter ID screen.
Nope. It just returns us to the enter ID screen.
Spoilery question for Luhr28 about possibly missing information: If I remember correctly, there should be instructions printed above the ID prompt - I guess that’s where you got the QUIT command earlier - but I don’t think you ever mentioned them here? Or did you, and I just missed it?
(Of course, simply answering that question could be a spoiler in itself! So maybe a screenshot instead?)
2. The computer asks for a password after entering an ID. And it doesn’t even let me see what i’m typing, which is annoying
Not unheard of in real-life applications, though. At least not back then. Now I guess almost everything would echo a “*” to indicate that you typed a character.
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