Interactive Fiction: The Log
THE LOG
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Release 11 / Serial number 20080206
It’s another boring day on your log. You’re floating down the river, same as always. Water to the left of you, water to the right of you. Water behind you, a gigantic wormhole in front of you. Same old thing.
Wait, no, that’s not right. You usually don’t have wormholes in front of you. It’s usually more water, just like on every other side of you. In fact, you can’t remember ever having seen a wormhole out here on the river. Hmm, that’s unexpected indeed.
> examine wormhole
The wormhole looks like something out of a movie about wormholes. It’s chock full of science fiction effects and whooshing stuff.
> examine whooshing stuff
(taking the whooshing stuff first)
You can’t take the whooshing stuff inside the wormhole.
> i
You are carrying:
a book on log identification
bleach
> dissolve wormhole
What do you want to dissolve the wormhole with?
> bleach
You pour some of your bleach on the wormhole. The wormhole skips and sputters a little bit, but that’s all that happens. All of its whorls are fully intact and seem to be functioning to full capacity.
> find a pig
You find a pig hidden inside of your log.
> take pig
Taken.
> throw pig into wormhole
The pig squeals in terror and clings to your shirt with all of its might. It’s not going to let you throw it in there, not when it’s still a fully formed wormhole that might transport it to who-knows-what weird galaxy on the other side of the universe.
> reason with the pig
You try to explain that to the pig why it needs to travel through the wormhole, but its squeals of indignation indicate that it’s not believing you. He’s staying right here, thank you very much.
> give book to pig
The pig isn’t interested in your book about identifying different types of logs.
> clean pig
(with the bleach)
The pig is now sparkling clean.
> throw pig into wormhole
The newly cleaned pig gladly soars through the air. Now that he’s clean, he’s much less embarrassed about being seen in public by strangers. As everyone knows, pigs try to keep to themselves when they’re dirty.
As the pig hits the wormhole, he disappears. The wormhole thinks for a few seconds, and then spits out a tray of seafood back to you in appreciation. The wormhole then vanishes.
> examine seafood
The seafood is a form of space sushi made from the kindliest piranhas you’ve ever seen.
> eat sushi
Yummy!
You have won. Congratulations!