The Stripy Strudel's Journal

There is a text-based adventure game Dunnet packaged with GNU Emacs — you must remember those games where you read descriptions of the rooms where you are, and type commands like put key in door. If you have Emacs, I recommend you this one. This is, I tell you, cyberpunk.

For example, there is a room with a computer. It runs some flavor of UNIX with a crippled but working shell. The /rooms directory contains a subdirectory for each already visited room with files representing objects currently located in those rooms. Your current inventory is in the home directory. What you have to do there is to transfer all your stuff to a remote server over FTP and then use rlogin to get there yourself. After doing this, you find yourself in a room called “Receiving room” (without any computer), and all the objects transferred here are lying on the floor nearby. It's funny that if you forget to enable the binary mode for FTP, you'll find a worthless pile of protoplasm instead.

There are a lot more places like that in the game, though. Highly recommended.

PS: Check this commit in the game's CVS.

По-русски: You are in a Maze of Twenty Little Passages