Caltrops - Enter the Matrix

Forum Overview :: Enter the Matrix

by Bananadine 05/13/2010, 11:22am PDT

FIRST SUCCESS:

Omegle wrote:

You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
You: Blinding light.
You: You open your eyes, but quickly shut them. There's a blinding white light coming from directly in front of you. Strangely, you find that you are sitting up in a chair. You don't remember getting out of bed. Come to think of it, you don't remember getting in bed, either.
You: Once again you attempt to open your eyes, blocking out some of the light with your hand. You stand up and look around as your eyes adjust to the light.
You: You're quite sure that you've never been here before.
You: (type HELP for instructions)
You: Channel Surfing
You: An Interactive Fiction by Mike Vollmer
You: Release 2 / Serial number 081122 / Inform 7 build 5T18 (I6/v6.31 lib 6/12N)
You: Box
Your conversational partner has disconnected.

That was exciting! Watching all that stuff get typed out super-fast.

Box is the name of the first room, in this game. When the person disconnected, Omegle's input box disappeared and the room's description and contents and all that got redirected to the browser window in general, which had no use for them until an f came up. Then the annoying Quick Find bar popped up, and it accepted the remainder of the description of Box, presumably including the command prompt.

After that there was some sputtering:

Omegle wrote:

Omegle
Talk to strangers!
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You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
Stranger: asl
You: walls, floor, and cs in both directions, and the ceiling is about eight feet above you.eiling are all completely blank, and completely unfamiliar. They're painted a very passive gray color, and appear to be completely flat and smooth. The floor is about ten f
You: The chair you were sitting on is big -- easily big enough for at least one other person. It is covered with cushions, but still feels hard to the touch and is very uncomfortable. You wonder how you were ever able to sleep on it.
Your conversational partner has disconnected.
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For a while, stuff wouldn't come out until I typed a little something myself:

Omegle wrote:

You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
Stranger: hi
You: e
You: I didn't understand that sentence.
Stranger: Stranger: Ask me 10 questions about myself, and I'll answer 100% truthfully.
You: e
You: You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom.
You: e
You: A small, expensive looking wooden table. The top is round and about a foot in diameter, and the edges are rounded. The top surface is polished smooth, and the legs of the table have intricate shapes carefully carved into them.
You: You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom.
You: You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom.
You: I didn't understand that sentence.
You: I beg your pardon?
You: I only understood you as far as wanting to take inventory.
You: IT'S RUN AMOK
You have disconnected.

Then, I fixed that:

Omegle wrote:

You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
You: Blinding light.
You: You open your eyes, but quickly shut them. There's a blinding white light coming from directly in front of you. Strangely, you find that you are sitting up in a chair. You don't remember getting out of bed. Come to think of it, you don't remember getting in bed, either.
You: Once again you attempt to open your eyes, blocking out some of the light with your hand. You stand up and look around as your eyes adjust to the light.
You: You're quite sure that you've never been here before.
You: (type HELP for instructions)
You: Channel Surfing
You: An Interactive Fiction by Mike Vollmer
You: Release 2 / Serial number 081122 / Inform 7 build 5T18 (I6/v6.31 lib 6/12N)
You: Box
You: The walls, floor, and ceiling are all completely blank, and completely unfamiliar. They're painted a very passive gray color, and appear to be completely flat and smooth. The floor is about ten feet across in both directions, and the ceiling is about eight feet above you.
You: The chair you were sitting on is big -- easily big enough for at least one other person. It is covered with cushions, but still feels hard to the touch and is very uncomfortable. You wonder how you were ever able to sleep on it.
You: The only light source is the television in front of you. You guess that it must be at least eighty inches diagonally. It appears to be thin, but you can't see around it to be sure. Do they make LCD TVs that big? The near-blinding white light from the television fills much of the room, leaving harsh black shadows where the light doesn't reach.
You: Beside you is a small, expensive looking wooden table.
You: On the small table are a remote, a letter, and a post-it note.
Your conversational partner has disconnected.

SUCCESS

Except now I need a different game, because like most text adventures, this random one I picked out is too obtuse to engage a Stranger unless they very quickly figure out that it's a text adventure, and the only things Strangers are good at doing very quickly are asking ASL and disconnecting. (Also I'd prefer that they didn't figure out what they were talking to at all, let alone have to!)