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+! Robot Finds Kitten
+! A Zen Simulation
+! Release 1 / Serial number 021123 / Inform v6.21
+!
+! [-] |\_/| http://www.robotfindskitten.org
+! (+)={ |o o|__ Leonard Richardson (C) 1997, 2000
+! | | --*--__\ David Griffith (C) 2002 (Inform Edition)
+! OOO C_C(___)
+!
+!
+! This Zen simulation is based on the C version v1600003.248b
+! by Leonard Richardson (C) 1997, 2000.
+! Written originally for the Nerth Pork robotfindskitten contest.
+! Reimplemented in Inform by David Griffith (C) 2002.
+!
+! Lots more information on Robot Finds Kitten is available at
+! http://www.robotfindskitten.org.
+!
+!
+! In this game, you are Robot (#). Your job is to find Kitten. This
+! task is complicated by the existance of various things which are not
+! kitten. Robot must touch items to determine if they are Kitten or
+! not. Move Robot with the cursor keys, the numeric keypad, or
+! using the vi/rogue movement keys. The game ends when Robot finds
+! Kitten. Alternatively, you may end the game by hitting the Esc or Q
+! keys.
+!
+! Developed with Inform 6.21 as installed from NetBSD's pkgsrc tree.
+!
+! Compile it with:
+! inform "-~S" kitten.inf <-- Assuming Unix
+!
+! Notes:
+! 1) More than half of the code is taken up by non-kitten
+! messages. When I compiled the code with just five messages and
+! no debugging code, the resulting binary was only 9728 bytes.
+! With all 280+ messages, it's 20992 bytes.
+!
+! 2) If it wasn't already abundantly obvious, this program won't
+! compile to Glulx because of copious use of Z-machine assembly
+! instructions.
+!
+!
+! Still to do:
+!
+! Implement colors (is it really necessary?)
+!
+! Is there some way I can hide the cursor completely?
+! I want to do this and manually set Robot to be in reverse type rather
+! than relying on the cursor to look like that. Ahah! "@set_cursor -1
+! turns the cursor off, "@set_cursor -2" turns it back on. Hmm. This
+! doesn't seem to work.
+!
+! It seems every now and then the kitten doesn't gets placed somewhere
+! where the robot can't get to it. Under a non-kitten?
+!
+! already_seen_msg in get_random_msg() still doesn't work correctly!
+! Probably the already_seen_xy() thing doesn't work either.
+
+
+!Switches xv5s;
+
+Switches v5;
+
+! Maxmimum possible number of non-kitten items on the playfield at once.
+!
+Constant Nonkitten_Max 256;
+
+Constant Nonkitten_Default 20;
+
+! Number of messages
+!
+Constant MESSAGE_NUM 283;
+
+
+Release 1;
+!Serial "021129";
+
+
+! Not currently implemented
+! Global palm_mode = false;
+
+
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
+Constant Story "Robot Finds Kitten";
+Constant Headline "^A Zen Simulation^";
+
+Constant Anim_Meet 10;
+
+Global Height = 0;
+Global Width = 0;
+
+Global Color = false;
+
+Global TopBar = 5;
+
+Global player_x = 0;
+Global player_y = 0;
+
+Global kitten_x = 0;
+Global kitten_y = 0;
+Global kitten_char = 0;
+!Global kitten_color = 0;
+
+Global last_message = "";
+
+Global nonkitten_count = Nonkitten_Default;
+
+Array nonkitten_x --> Nonkitten_Max;
+Array nonkitten_y --> Nonkitten_Max;
+Array nonkitten_char --> Nonkitten_Max;
+Array nonkitten_msg --> Nonkitten_Max;
+!Array nonkitten_color --> Nonkitten_Max;
+
+Global already_msg_count = 0;
+Global already_count = 0;
+Array already_x --> Nonkitten_Max + 2;
+Array already_y --> Nonkitten_Max + 2;
+Array already_msg --> Nonkitten_Max;
+
+
+[ Main key;
+ if ((1->0)&1 == 0)
+ Color = true;
+ else
+ Color = false;
+
+ main_menu();
+ while (true) {
+ key = getkey();
+ switch (key) {
+ 'F': already_count = 0;
+ init_kitten();
+ init_robot();
+ init_nonkittens();
+ while (findkitten())
+ ;
+ 'D': nonkitten_count = set_nonkitten_count();
+ 'I': print_instructions();
+ 'A': print_about();
+ 'T': print_thoughts();
+ }
+ if (key == 'Q' || key == $1b)
+ break;
+ main_menu();
+ }
+ quit;
+];
+
+
+[ main_menu;
+ Width = $22-->0;
+ Height = $24-->0;
+
+ @erase_window $ffff;
+ @split_window 11;
+ @set_window 1;
+
+ Banner();
+ draw_horiz(TopBar);
+
+ draw_big_robot(3, 7);
+ draw_big_kitten(15, 7);
+
+
+ @set_cursor 7 30;
+ print "robotfindskitten";
+ @set_cursor 8 30;
+ print "http://www.robotfindskitten.org";
+ @set_cursor 9 30;
+ print "Leonard Richardson (C) 1997, 2000";
+ @set_cursor 10 30;
+ print "David Griffith (C) 2002 (Inform Edition)";
+
+ @set_window 0;
+
+ print " F) Find Kitten^";
+ print " D) Difficulty (", nonkitten_count, ")^";
+ print " I) Instructions^";
+ print " T) Thoughts^";
+ print " A) About^";
+ print " Q) Quit^";
+ print "^> ";
+];
+
+
+[ Banner i;
+ if (Story ~= 0) {
+#IFV5;
+ style bold;
+#ENDIF;
+ print (string) Story;
+#IFV5;
+ style roman;
+#ENDIF;
+ }
+ if (Headline ~= 0) {
+ print (string) Headline;
+ }
+ print "Release ", (0-->1) & $03ff, " / Serial number ";
+ for (i=18:i<24:i++) print (char) 0->i;
+ print " / Inform v"; inversion; print " ";
+#ifdef STRICT_MODE;
+ print "S";
+#endif;
+#ifdef INFIX;
+ print "X";
+#ifnot;
+#ifdef DEBUG;
+ print "D";
+#endif;
+#endif;
+ new_line;
+];
+
+Constant INBUFSIZE 80;
+Array inbuf -> INBUFSIZE;
+[ set_nonkitten_count inbufvar ix cx len val;
+
+ while (true) {
+ @erase_window $ffff;
+ @split_window 5;
+ @set_window 1;
+ Banner();
+ draw_horiz(TopBar);
+ @set_window 0;
+
+ print "^Please enter the number of nonkittens you
+ wish to search through.^(1 to 255 only)^^> ";
+
+ inbuf->0 = (INBUFSIZE-3);
+ inbuf->1 = 0;
+ inbufvar = inbuf;
+ ix = 0;
+ @aread inbufvar ix;
+ new_line;
+ len = inbuf->1;
+ cx = 0;
+ while (cx < len && inbuf->(2+cx) == ' ')
+ cx++;
+ if (cx < len && inbuf->(2+cx) == '.')
+ break;
+
+ if (cx == len || inbuf->(2+cx) < '0' || inbuf->(2+cx) > '9') {
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ val = 0;
+ while (cx < len && inbuf->(2+cx) >= '0' && inbuf->(2+cx) <= '9') {
+ val = val * 10 + (inbuf->(2+cx) - '0');
+ cx++;
+ }
+
+ if (val < 1 || val > Nonkitten_Max) {
+ print "Please enter a value from 1 to ",
+ Nonkitten_Max, ", or Enter by itself to exit.^";
+ continue;
+ } else break;
+ }
+ return val;
+];
+
+[ print_about;
+ @erase_window $ffff;
+ @split_window TopBar;
+ @set_window 1;
+ Banner();
+ draw_horiz(TopBar);
+ @set_window 0;
+
+print "^
+This Zen simulation is based on the C version v1600003.248b^
+by Leonard Richardson (C) 1997, 2000.^
+Written originally for the Nerth Pork robotfindskitten contest.^
+Reimplemented in Inform by David Griffith (C) 2002.^
+^
+Lots more information on Robot Finds Kitten is available at
+http://www.robotfindskitten.org.^
+^
+Known bugs:^
+^
+1) In get_random_msg(), already_seen_msg isn't being checked correctly
+leading to occasional duplicate messages. It looks like it should work.
+Not sure why not.^
+^
+2) already_seen_xy() probably has problems similar to item 1 above which
+might explain why the kitten occasionally gets placed somewhere where
+the robot can't get to it.
+^
+3) Under Windows Frotz, the Robot appears as a solid block. This is a
+bug in Windows Frotz which incorrectly makes the cursor opaque.^
+^
+4) Under Windows Frotz, an annoying [MORE] prompt appears when the game
+is started. This is another bug in Windows Frotz which believes
+Windows' suggestion to use 20 lines rather than 24 or 25.^
+^
+^
+[Press any key to continue.] ";
+
+ getkey();
+];
+
+
+[ print_instructions;
+ @erase_window $ffff;
+ @split_window TopBar;
+ @set_window 1;
+ Banner();
+ draw_horiz(TopBar);
+ @set_window 0;
+
+print "^
+In this game, you are Robot (#). Your job is to find Kitten. This task
+is complicated by the existance of various things which are not
+kitten. Robot must touch items to determine if they are Kitten or
+not. Move Robot with the cursor keys, the numeric keypad, or using the
+vi/rogue movement keys. The game ends when Robot finds
+Kitten. Alternatively, you may end the game by hitting the Esc or Q
+keys.^^
+[Press any key to continue.] ";
+
+ getkey();
+];
+
+
+[ print_thoughts;
+ @erase_window $ffff;
+ @split_window TopBar;
+ @set_window 1;
+ Banner();
+ draw_horiz(TopBar);
+ @set_window 0;
+
+print "^
+A Final Thought.^
+^
+Day and night I feverishly worked upon the machine, creating both a soul
+which could desire its goal, and a body with which it could realize it.
+Many who saw my creation called it an abomination, and denied me grant
+money. But they could not dissuade me from my impossible task. It was a
+spectre that tormented me always, a ghost I had to give a form and a
+life, lest it consume me from the inside. And when at last my task was
+done, when the grey box on wheels was complete and when it, as well as
+I, knew what had to be done, I felt deep sympathy for the machine. For I
+had not destroyed the phantom, but merely exorcized it into another
+body. The robot knew not why this task had to be performed, for I could
+not imbue it with knowledge I did not myself posess. And at the same
+time, I felt a sweeping sense of relief sweep over me, that somehow, the
+dream that had driven me for my entire life had come one step closer to
+fruition.^
+^
+~Gort, Klaatu Verada Nikto~^
+^
+As I vocally activated the robot, I realized that it was following my
+instructions, but not out of any desire to obey me. Had I remained
+silent, it would have performed exactly the same operations. We were two
+beings controlled by the same force now. And yet, seeking vainly to hold
+some illusion of control over the machine I thought I had created, I
+gave my final command.^
+^
+~GO!~ I told the box as it began to roll out of my workshop into the
+frozen desert beyond. ~FIND KITTEN!~^
+^
+-- The Book of Found Kittens, pages 43-4, author unknown.^^
+
+
+[Press any key to continue.] ";
+
+ getkey();
+];
+
+[ draw_big_robot x y;
+ if (x == 0)
+ x = 1;
+ if (y == 0)
+ y = 1;
+ @set_cursor y x;
+ print "[-]";
+ y = y+1;
+ @set_cursor y x;
+ print "(+)=C";
+
+ y = y+1;
+ @set_cursor y x;
+ print "| |";
+
+ y = y+1;
+ @set_cursor y x;
+ print "OOO";
+];
+
+[ draw_big_kitten x y;
+ if (x == 0)
+ x = 1;
+ if (y == 0)
+ y = 1;
+ @set_cursor y x;
+ print "|", (char) 92, "_/|";
+ y++;
+ @set_cursor y x;
+ print "|o o|__";
+ y++;
+ @set_cursor y x;
+ print "--*--__", (char) 92;
+ y++;
+ @set_cursor y x;
+ print "C_C(___)";
+];
+
+
+[ findkitten key i kitten_found;
+ @erase_window $ffff;
+ @split_window TopBar;
+ @set_window 1;
+ @set_cursor 1 1;
+
+ kitten_found = false;
+
+ Banner();
+ print (string) last_message;
+ draw_horiz(TopBar);
+
+ draw_object(kitten_x, kitten_y, kitten_char);
+ draw_nonkittens();
+ draw_object(player_x, player_y, '#');
+
+ @set_cursor player_y player_x;
+
+
+ key = getkey();
+ switch (key) {
+ 'Q', $1b: rfalse; ! exit game ($1b == Esc)
+ '8', 'J', 129: player_y--; ! up
+ '2', 'K', 130: player_y++; ! down
+ '4', 'H', 131: player_x--; ! left
+ '6', 'L', 132: player_x++; ! right
+ '7', 'Y': player_y--; player_x--; ! up-left
+ '9', 'U': player_y--; player_x++; ! up-right
+ '1', 'B': player_y++; player_x--; ! down-left
+ '3', 'N': player_y++; player_x++; ! down-right
+ }
+ if (player_y <= TopBar+1)
+ player_y = TopBar + 1;
+ if (player_y > Height)
+ player_y = Height;
+ if (player_x < 1)
+ player_x = 1;
+ if (player_x > Width)
+ player_x = Width;
+
+ ! detect and handle collisions
+ !
+ if (player_x == kitten_x && player_y == kitten_y) {
+ found_kitten(key);
+ getkey();
+ rfalse;
+ }
+ for (i = 0: i < nonkitten_count: i++) {
+ if (player_x == nonkitten_x --> i
+ && player_y == nonkitten_y --> i) {
+ @set_cursor 1 1;
+ last_message = lookup_msg(nonkitten_msg --> i);
+
+ ! prevent Robot from walking through the object.
+ switch (key) {
+ '8', 'J', 129: player_y++;
+ '2', 'K', 130: player_y--;
+ '4', 'H', 131: player_x++;
+ '6', 'L', 132: player_x--;
+ '7', 'Y': player_y++; player_x++;
+ '9', 'U': player_y++; player_x--;
+ '1', 'B': player_y--; player_x++;
+ '3', 'N': player_y--; player_x--;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+ rtrue;
+];
+
+
+[ found_kitten key i j junk go_right robot_x anim_finished;
+
+ go_right = false;
+ anim_finished = false;
+
+ switch (key) {
+ '8', 'J', 129: player_y++;
+ '2', 'K', 130: player_y--; go_right = true;
+ '4', 'H', 131: player_x++;
+ '6', 'L', 132: player_x--; go_right = true;
+ '7', 'Y': player_y++; player_x++;
+ '9', 'U': player_y++; player_x--; go_right = true;
+ '1', 'B': player_y--; player_x++;
+ '3', 'N': player_y--; player_x--; go_right = true;
+ default: go_right = true;
+ }
+
+ for (i = 4: i >= 0: i--) {
+ @erase_window $ffff;
+ @split_window TopBar;
+ @set_window 1;
+ @set_cursor 1 1;
+
+ Banner();
+ draw_horiz(TopBar);
+
+ if (i > 0) {
+ if (go_right) {
+ robot_x = Anim_Meet - i;
+ draw_object(robot_x, TopBar - 1, '#');
+ draw_object(Anim_Meet - 1 + i, TopBar - 1, kitten_char);
+ } else {
+ robot_x = Anim_Meet - 1 + i;
+ draw_object(robot_x, TopBar - 1, '#');
+ draw_object(Anim_Meet - i, TopBar - 1, kitten_char);
+ }
+ } else {
+ j = TopBar - 1;
+ @set_cursor j 1;
+ print "You found Kitten! Way to go, Robot!";
+ anim_finished = true;
+ }
+
+ draw_object(kitten_x, kitten_y, kitten_char);
+
+ draw_object(player_x, player_y, '#');
+
+ draw_nonkittens();
+
+ if (anim_finished == false) {
+ j = TopBar - 1;
+ @set_cursor j robot_x;
+ @aread junk 0 10 pause junk;
+ } else {
+ draw_object(player_x, player_y, '#');
+ @set_cursor player_y player_x;
+ }
+ }
+
+];
+
+
+[ already_seen_xy x y i;
+
+ for (i = 0: i < already_count: i++) {
+ if (already_x --> i == x && already_y --> i == y) {
+ return false;
+ }
+ }
+ already_x --> already_count = x;
+ already_y --> already_count = y;
+ already_count++;
+
+ if (already_count > nonkitten_count + 2) {
+ print "Overflow in already_seen_xy()^";
+ quit;
+ }
+
+ return true;
+];
+
+
+[ pause;
+ rtrue;
+];
+
+
+[ init_kitten;
+ kitten_x = get_random_x();
+ kitten_y = get_random_y();
+
+ while (already_seen_xy(kitten_x, kitten_y) == false) {
+ kitten_x = get_random_x();
+ kitten_y = get_random_y();
+ }
+ kitten_char = get_random_char();
+];
+
+
+[ init_robot;
+ player_x = get_random_x();
+ player_y = get_random_y();
+
+ while (already_seen_xy(player_x, player_y) == false) {
+ player_x = get_random_x();
+ player_y = get_random_y();
+ }
+];
+
+
+[ init_nonkittens i;
+ already_msg_count = 0;
+ last_message = "";
+
+ for (i = 0: i < nonkitten_count: i++) {
+ nonkitten_x --> i = get_random_x();
+ nonkitten_y --> i = get_random_y();
+
+ while (already_seen_xy(nonkitten_x --> i, nonkitten_y --> i) == false) {
+ nonkitten_x --> i = get_random_x();
+ nonkitten_y --> i = get_random_y();
+ }
+ nonkitten_char --> i = get_random_char();
+ nonkitten_msg --> i = get_random_msg();
+ }
+];
+
+
+[ draw_nonkittens i;
+ for (i = 0: i < nonkitten_count: i++) {
+ draw_object(nonkitten_x --> i,
+ nonkitten_y --> i,
+ nonkitten_char --> i);
+ }
+];
+
+
+[ draw_object x y c;
+ @set_cursor y x;
+ if (c)
+ print (char) c;
+];
+
+
+[ draw_horiz row i;
+ @set_cursor row 1;
+
+ for (i = 0 : i < Width : i++)
+ print (char) '-';
+];
+
+
+[ getkey x;
+ @read_char 1 -> x;
+ if (x >= 'a' && x <= 'z')
+ x = x - ('a' - 'A');
+ return x;
+];
+
+
+![ get_random_color num;
+! num = random(7);
+! num = num + 2;
+! return num;
+!];
+
+
+[ get_random_char num;
+ num = random(93);
+ num = num + 33;
+
+ ! avoid choosing '#' for a random character.
+ while (num == 35) {
+ num = random(93);
+ num = num + 33;
+ }
+ return num;
+];
+
+
+[ get_random_msg num i found_dup;
+ found_dup = false;
+ num = random(MESSAGE_NUM);
+ for (i = 0: i < already_msg_count: i++) {
+ while (already_msg --> i == num) {
+ num = random(MESSAGE_NUM);
+ found_dup = true;
+ }
+ }
+
+ if (found_dup) already_msg_count++;
+
+ if (already_msg_count > nonkitten_count) {
+ print "Overflow in get_random_msg()^";
+ quit;
+ }
+ return num;
+];
+
+
+[ get_random_x;
+ return random(Width);
+];
+
+
+[ get_random_y num ok;
+ ok = false;
+ while (ok == false) {
+ num = random(Height);
+ if (num > TopBar)
+ ok = true;
+ }
+ return num;
+];
+
+
+[ lookup_msg num;
+ switch(num) {
+1: return "~I pity the fool who mistakes me for kitten!~, sez Mr. T.";
+2: return "That's just an old tin can.";
+3: return "It's an altar to the horse god.";
+4: return "A box of dancing mechanical pencils. They dance! They sing!";
+5: return "It's an old Duke Ellington record.";
+6: return "A box of fumigation pellets.";
+7: return "A digital clock. It's stuck at 2:17 PM.";
+8: return "That's just a charred human corpse.";
+9: return "I don't know what that is, but it's not kitten.";
+10: return "An empty shopping bag. Paper or plastic?";
+11: return "Could it be... a big ugly bowling trophy?";
+12: return "A coat hanger hovers in thin air. Odd.";
+13: return "Not kitten, just a packet of Kool-Aid(tm).";
+14: return "A freshly-baked pumpkin pie.";
+15: return "A lone, forgotten comma, sits here, sobbing.";
+16: return "ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND CARPET FIBERS!!!!!";
+17: return "It's Richard Nixon's nose!";
+18: return "It's Lucy Ricardo. ~Aaaah, Ricky!~, she says.";
+19: return "You stumble upon Bill Gates' stand-up act.";
+20: return "Just an autographed copy of the Kama Sutra.";
+21: return "It's the Will Rogers Highway. Who was Will Rogers, anyway?";
+22: return "It's another robot, more advanced in design than you but strangely immobile.";
+23: return "Leonard Richardson is here, asking people to lick him.";
+24: return "It's a stupid mask, fashioned after a beagle.";
+25: return "Your State Farm Insurance(tm) representative!";
+26: return "It's the local draft board.";
+27: return "Seven 1/4~ screws and a piece of plastic.";
+28: return "An 80286 machine.";
+29: return "One of those stupid ~Homes of the Stars~ maps.";
+30: return "A signpost saying ~TO KITTEN~. It points in no particular direction.";
+31: return "A hammock stretched between a tree and a volleyball pole.";
+32: return "A Texas Instruments of Destruction calculator.";
+33: return "It's a dark, amphorous blob of matter.";
+34: return "Just a pincushion.";
+35: return "It's a mighty zombie talking about some love and prosperity.";
+36: return "~Dear robot, you may have already won our 10 MILLION DOLLAR prize...~";
+37: return "It's just an object.";
+38: return "A mere collection of pixels.";
+39: return "A badly dented high-hat cymbal lies on its side here.";
+40: return "A marijuana brownie.";
+41: return "A plush Chewbacca.";
+42: return "Daily hunger conditioner from Australasia";
+43: return "Just some stuff.";
+44: return "Why are you touching this when you should be finding kitten?";
+45: return "A glorious fan of peacock feathers.";
+46: return "It's some compromising photos of Babar the Elephant.";
+47: return "A copy of the Weekly World News. Watch out for the chambered nautilus!";
+48: return "It's the proverbial wet blanket.";
+49: return "A ~Get Out of Jail Free~ card.";
+50: return "An incredibly expensive ~Mad About You~ collector plate.";
+51: return "Paul Moyer's necktie.";
+52: return "A haircut and a real job. Now you know where to get one!";
+53: return "An automated robot-hater. It frowns disapprovingly at you.";
+54: return "An automated robot-liker. It smiles at you.";
+55: return "It's a black hole. Don't fall in!";
+56: return "Just a big brick wall.";
+57: return "You found kitten! No, just kidding.";
+58: return "Heart of Darkness brand pistachio nuts.";
+59: return "A smoking branding iron shaped like a 24-pin connector.";
+60: return "It's a Java applet.";
+61: return "An abandoned used-car lot.";
+62: return "A shameless plug for Crummy: http://www.crummy.com/";
+63: return "A shameless plug for the UCLA Linux Users Group: http://linux.ucla.edu/";
+64: return "A can of Spam Lite.";
+65: return "This is another fine mess you've gotten us into, Stanley.";
+66: return "It's scenery for ~Waiting for Godot~.";
+67: return "This grain elevator towers high above you.";
+68: return "A Mentos wrapper.";
+69: return "It's the constellation Pisces.";
+70: return "It's a fly on the wall. Hi, fly!";
+71: return "This kind of looks like kitten, but it's not.";
+72: return "It's a banana! Oh, joy!";
+73: return "A helicopter has crashed here.";
+74: return "Carlos Tarango stands here, doing his best impression of Pat Smear.";
+75: return "A patch of mushrooms grows here.";
+76: return "A patch of grape jelly grows here.";
+77: return "A spindle, and a grindle, and a bucka-wacka-woom!";
+78: return "A geyser sprays water high into the air.";
+79: return "A toenail? What good is a toenail?";
+80: return "You've found the fish! Not that it does you much good in this game.";
+81: return "A Buttertonsils bar.";
+82: return "One of the few remaining discoes.";
+83: return "Ah, the uniform of a Revolutionary-era minuteman.";
+84: return "A punch bowl, filled with punch and lemon slices.";
+85: return "It's nothing but a G-thang, baby.";
+86: return "IT'S ALIVE! AH HA HA HA HA!";
+87: return "This was no boating accident!";
+88: return "Wait! This isn't the poker chip! You've been tricked! DAMN YOU, MENDEZ!";
+89: return "A livery stable! Get your livery!";
+90: return "It's a perpetual immobility machine.";
+91: return "~On this spot in 1962, Henry Winkler was sick.~";
+92: return "There's nothing here; it's just an optical illusion.";
+93: return "The World's Biggest Motzah Ball!";
+94: return "A tribe of cannibals lives here. They eat Malt-O-Meal for breakfast, you know.";
+95: return "This appears to be a rather large stack of trashy romance novels.";
+96: return "Look out! Exclamation points!";
+97: return "A herd of wild coffee mugs slumbers here.";
+98: return "It's a limbo bar! How low can you go?";
+99: return "It's the horizon. Now THAT'S weird.";
+100: return "A vase full of artificial flowers is stuck to the floor here.";
+101: return "A large snake bars your way.";
+102: return "A pair of saloon-style doors swing slowly back and forth here.";
+103: return "It's an ordinary bust of Beethoven... but why is it painted green?";
+104: return "It's TV's lovable wisecracking Crow! ~Bite me!~, he says.";
+105: return "Hey, look, it's war. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again.";
+106: return "It's the amazing self-referential thing that's not kitten.";
+107: return "A flamboyant feather boa. Now you can dress up like Carol Channing!";
+108: return "~Sure hope we get some rain soon,~ says Farmer Joe.";
+109: return "~How in heck can I wash my neck if it ain't gonna rain no more?~ asks Farmer Al.";
+110: return "~Topsoil's all gone, ma,~ weeps Lil' Greg.";
+111: return "This is a large brown bear. Oddly enough, it's currently peeing in the woods.";
+112: return "A team of arctic explorers is camped here.";
+113: return "This object here appears to be Louis Farrakhan's bow tie.";
+114: return "This is the world-famous Chain of Jockstraps.";
+115: return "A trash compactor, compacting away.";
+116: return "This toaster strudel is riddled with bullet holes!";
+117: return "It's a hologram of a crashed helicopter.";
+118: return "This is a television. On screen you see a robot strangely similar to yourself.";
+119: return "This balogna has a first name, it's R-A-N-C-I-D.";
+120: return "A salmon hatchery? Look again. It's merely a single salmon.";
+121: return "It's a rim shot. Ba-da-boom!";
+122: return "It's creepy and it's kooky, mysterious and spooky. It's also somewhat ooky.";
+123: return "This is an anagram.";
+124: return "This object is like an analogy.";
+125: return "It's a symbol. You see in it a model for all symbols everywhere.";
+126: return "The object pushes back at you.";
+127: return "A traffic signal. It appears to have been recently vandalized.";
+128: return "~There is no kitten!~ cackles the old crone. You are shocked by her blasphemy.";
+129: return "This is a Lagrange point. Don't come too close now.";
+130: return "The dirty old tramp bemoans the loss of his harmonica.";
+131: return "Look, it's Fanny the Irishman!";
+132: return "What in blazes is this?";
+133: return "It's the instruction manual for a previous version of this game.";
+134: return "A brain cell. Oddly enough, it seems to be functioning.";
+135: return "Tea and/or crumpets.";
+136: return "This jukebox has nothing but Cliff Richards albums in it.";
+137: return "It's a Quaker Oatmeal tube, converted into a drum.";
+138: return "This is a remote control. Being a robot, you keep a wide berth.";
+139: return "It's a roll of industrial-strength copper wire.";
+140: return "Oh boy! Grub! Er, grubs.";
+141: return "A puddle of mud, where the mudskippers play.";
+142: return "Plenty of nothing.";
+143: return "Look at that, it's the Crudmobile.";
+144: return "Just Walter Mattheau and Jack Lemmon.";
+145: return "Two crepes, two crepes in a box.";
+146: return "An autographed copy of ~Primary Colors~, by Anonymous.";
+147: return "Another rabbit? That's three today!";
+148: return "It's a segmentation fault. Core dumped, by the way.";
+149: return "A historical marker showing the actual location of /dev/null.";
+150: return "Thar's Mobius Dick, the convoluted whale. Arrr!";
+151: return "It's a charcoal briquette, smoking away.";
+151: return "A pizza, melting in the sun.";
+152: return "It's a ~HOME ALONE 2: Lost in New York~ novelty cup.";
+153: return "A stack of 7 inch floppies wobbles precariously.";
+153: return "It's nothing but a corrupted floppy. Coaster anyone?";
+154: return "A section of glowing phosphor cells sings a song of radiation to you.";
+155: return "This TRS-80 III is eerily silent.";
+156: return "A toilet bowl occupies this space.";
+157: return "This peg-leg is stuck in a knothole!";
+158: return "It's a solitary vaccuum tube.";
+159: return "This corroded robot is clutching a mitten.";
+160: return "~Hi, I'm Anson Williams, TV's 'Potsy'.~";
+161: return "This subwoofer was blown out in 1974.";
+162: return "Three half-pennies and a wooden nickel.";
+163: return "It's the missing chapter to ~A Clockwork Orange~.";
+164: return "It's a burrito stand flyer. ~Taqueria El Ranchito~.";
+165: return "This smiling family is happy because they eat LARD.";
+166: return "Roger Avery, persona un famoso de los Estados Unidos.";
+167: return "Ne'er but a potted plant.";
+168: return "A parrot, kipping on its back.";
+169: return "A forgotten telephone switchboard.";
+170: return "A forgotten telephone switchboard operator.";
+171: return "It's an automated robot-disdainer. It pretends you're not there.";
+172: return "It's a portable hole. A sign reads: ~Closed for the winter~.";
+173: return "Just a moldy loaf of bread.";
+174: return "A little glass tub of Carmex. ($.89) Too bad you have no lips.";
+175: return "A Swiss-Army knife. All of its appendages are out. (toothpick lost)";
+176: return "It's a zen simulation, trapped within an ASCII character.";
+177: return "It's a copy of ~The Rubaiyat of Spike Schudy~.";
+178: return "It's ~War and Peace~ (unabridged, very small print).";
+179: return "A willing, ripe tomato bemoans your inability to digest fruit.";
+180: return "A robot comedian. You feel amused.";
+181: return "It's KITT, the talking car.";
+182: return "Here's Pete Peterson. His batteries seem to have long gone dead.";
+183: return "~Blup, blup, blup~, says the mud pot.";
+184: return "More grist for the mill.";
+185: return "Grind 'em up, spit 'em out, they're twigs.";
+186: return "The boom box cranks out an old Ethel Merman tune.";
+187: return "It's ~Finding kitten~, published by O'Reilly and Associates.";
+188: return "Pumpkin pie spice.";
+189: return "It's the Bass-Matic '76! Mmm, that's good bass!";
+190: return "~Lend us a fiver 'til Thursday~, pleas Andy Capp.";
+191: return "It's a tape of '70s rock. All original hits! All original artists!";
+192: return "You've found the fabled America Online disk graveyard!";
+193: return "Empty jewelboxes litter the landscape.";
+194: return "It's the astounding meta-object.";
+195: return "Ed McMahon stands here, lost in thought. Seeing you, he bellows, ~YES SIR!~";
+196: return "...thingy???";
+197: return "It's 1000 secrets the government doesn't want you to know!";
+198: return "The letters O and R.";
+199: return "A magical... magic thing.";
+200: return "It's a moment of silence.";
+201: return "It's Sirhan-Sirhan, looking guilty.";
+202: return "It's ~Chicken Soup for the Kitten-seeking Soulless Robot.~";
+203: return "It is a set of wind-up chatter teeth.";
+204: return "It is a cloud shaped like an ox.";
+205: return "You see a snowflake here, melting slowly.";
+206: return "It's a big block of ice. Something seems to be frozen inside it.";
+207: return "Vladimir Lenin's casket rests here.";
+208: return "It's a copy of ~Zen and The Art of Robot Maintenance~.";
+209: return "This invisible box contains a pantomime horse.";
+210: return "A mason jar lies here open. It's label reads: ~do not open!~.";
+211: return "A train of thought chugs through here.";
+212: return "This jar of pickles expired in 1957.";
+213: return "Someone's identity disk lies here.";
+214: return "~Yes!~ says the bit.";
+215: return "~No!~ says the bit.";
+216: return "A dodecahedron bars your way.";
+217: return "Mr. Hooper is here, surfing.";
+218: return "It's a big smoking fish.";
+219: return "You have new mail in /var/spool/robot";
+220: return "Just a monitor with the blue element burnt out.";
+221: return "A pile of coaxial plumbing lies here.";
+222: return "It's a rotten old shoe.";
+223: return "It's a hundred-dollar bill.";
+224: return "It's a Dvorak keyboard.";
+225: return "It's a cardboard box full of 8-tracks.";
+226: return "Just a broken hard drive containg the archives of Nerth Pork.";
+227: return "A broken metronome sits here, it's needle off to one side.";
+228: return "A sign reads: ~Go home!~";
+229: return "A sign reads: ~No robots allowed!~";
+230: return "It's the handheld robotfindskitten game, by Tiger.";
+231: return "This particular monstrosity appears to be ENIAC.";
+232: return "This is a tasty-looking banana creme pie.";
+233: return "A wireframe model of a hot dog rotates in space here.";
+234: return "Just the empty husk of a locust.";
+235: return "You disturb a murder of crows.";
+236: return "It's a copy of the RobotFindsKitten EULA.";
+237: return "It's Death.";
+238: return "It's an autographed copy of ~Secondary Colors~, by Bob Ross.";
+239: return "It is a marzipan dreadnought that appears to have melted and stuck.";
+240: return "It's a DVD of ~Crouching Monkey, Hidden Kitten~, region encoded for the moon.";
+241: return "It's Kieran Hervold. Damn dyslexia!";
+242: return "A non-descript box of crackers.";
+243: return "Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Color, Phosphoric Acid, Flavors, Caffeine.";
+244: return "~Move along! Nothing to see here!~";
+245: return "It's the embalmed corpse of Vladimir Lenin.";
+246: return "A coupon for one free steak-fish at your local family diner.";
+247: return "A set of keys to a 2001 Rolls Royce. Worthless.";
+
+! The following messages were added by David Griffith
+!
+248: return "It's the Golden Banana of Discord!";
+249: return "The Inform Designer's Manual (4th edition)";
+250: return "A packet of pipe cleaners.";
+251: return "It's Andrew Plotkin plotting something.";
+252: return "A half-eaten cheese sandwich.";
+253: return "Clang, clang, clang goes the tranny!";
+254: return "A family of integrals are here integrating.";
+255: return "A tuft of kitten fur, but no kitten.";
+256: return "A bottle of oil! Refreshing!";
+257: return "A shameless plug for Frotz: http://www.cs.csubak.edu/~dgriffi/proj/frotz/";
+258: return "Clifford Stoll is here selling Klein bottles.";
+259: return "You found the marble in the oatmeal!";
+260: return "An empty Altoids tin.";
+261: return "An empty Penguin Mints tin.";
+262: return "So, THAT's what an invisible barrier looks like!";
+263: return "A cluster of cattails are growing here.";
+264: return "A discarded bagpipe chanter reed.";
+265: return "Big Bird is here looking for Mr. Looper.";
+266: return "It's a Linux install CD.";
+267: return "You found Puppy! Too bad this isn't ~Robot Finds Puppy~.";
+268: return "Several meters of cat5 cable.";
+269: return "A scrap of parchment bears the single word, ~meow~.";
+270: return "A puddle of chocolate sauce.";
+271: return "Your robot pal Floyd is here and wants to play Hucka-Bucka-Beanstalk.";
+272: return "Someone is talking to Ralph on the big white phone here.";
+273: return "'Twas brillig in the slivey-toves...";
+274: return "Darth Vader is here looking for his Teddywookie.";
+275: return "A bassoon is hooting angrily at you.";
+276: return "Catsup and Mustard all over the place! It's the Human Hamburger!";
+277: return "Gibble, Gobble, we ACCEPT YOU ...";
+278: return "A rancid corn dog.";
+279: return "It's a tribute to fishnet stockings.";
+280: return "A jar of Vegemite is running down the hill here.";
+281: return "Nipples, dimples, knuckles, NICKLES, wrinkles, pimples!!";
+282: return "A bottle of hair tonic.";
+283: return "A packet of catnip.";
+ }
+];
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