Description
The city finally having secured an eviction notice, the demolition contractor is contractually obligated to conduct an inventory of the Wizard of Wordplay's manor before knocking it down, clearing the spooky space for cheap condos or a mini-mall. The only problem is that with his peculiar and punny powers pervading the property, the poor prestidigitator's
possessions pooh-pooh playing possum, putting punitive and perilous portents into play, preventing the project from proceeding. (
Phew!)
Surely this is a job for a veteran text adventurer such as yourself! In your previous adventures, you only engaged grues and dwarfs
with language -- here (as in spiritual predecessors
Nort and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail Of It and
T-Zero), you're climbing into the ring with language itself, grappling everything from an abundance of asinine alliteration to dinosaur etymology within the first few rooms. Not since the raconting of
Racter has a text environment (Oulip)owed so much to the playful linguistic experimentation of the avant-garde and simpleminded -- a perplexing source of inspiration most works of interactive fiction have been only too eager to a void. Here at last, to triumph, you will have to truly demonstrate that the pen is mightier than the sword!
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| SPAG |
Dec 29, 2000 |
7.4 out of 10 |
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Trivia
This game took 4th place overall of the 53 entries in 2000's 6th annual Interactive Fiction competition, winning the "Miss Congeniality" prize (favourite game of the competing authors) and beyond merely placing as a Finalist in the 2000 XYZZY Award categories for Best Use of Medium and Best Individual Puzzle, also took home the top prize in the Best Puzzles category. (Nick's awesomely alliterative acceptance speech can be viewed
here.)
