The Unfinished: An Ongoing Adventure
You are sitting at a ROLLTOP DESK in front of a LAPTOP. There are many BOOKS and PHOTOCOPIES here.
> look books
Scattered on the desk are eight Victorian religious novels, The Light Ages, and The House of Storms.
> what do The Light Ages and The House of Storms have to do with Victorian religious novels?
Nothing, you thick-skulled organic lifeform. They're for that blog post about steampunk you started drafting this evening.
> yeah yeah
Huh?
> look laptop
There is an INCOMPLETE BOOK CHAPTER here.
> read chapter
It's forty-eight pages long. Are you sure you want to do that?
> finish chapter
With what? Your bare hands?
> use keyboard
A fog swirls around the screen, and...
You are sitting at a ROLLTOP DESK in front of a LAPTOP. There are many BOOKS and PHOTOCOPIES here. A BROWSER WINDOW is open to GOOGLE BOOKS.
> look window
The screen contains a list of full-text novels related to this CHAPTER. You have not written about any of them. Yet.
> noooooo!
Yessssss!
> noooooo!
Yessss, my precioussss!
> close window
The WINDOW refuses to close.
> close chapter
The CHAPTER refuses to close.
A fog swirls around the screen, and...
You are sitting at a ROLLTOP DESK in front of a LAPTOP. There are many BOOKS and PHOTOCOPIES here.
There is a RESEARCH LIBRARIAN standing next to the desk.
> it's 2:03 AM!
OK, so it's a NOCTURNAL RESEARCH LIBRARIAN. Sheesh.
> talk librarian
"We've found another dozen bad Methodist novels about the Elizabethan settlement. Isn't that terrific?"
> wail
I thought you liked reading lots of novels.
> gnash teeth
You know, your parents spent a lot of money on that orthodontic work.
> finish chapter
With what? Your bare hands?
> use fountain pen
A fog swirls around the screen, and...
You are sitting at a ROLLTOP DESK in front of a LAPTOP. There are many BOOKS and PHOTOCOPIES here. There is a NOCTURNAL RESEARCH LIBRARIAN here.
Another stack of books has appeared next to the desk.
> look books
You see several rare Catholic novels about the sixteenth century.
> arrrrgghh!
That is not an astute observation.
> read books
They're all triple-deckers. Are you sure you want to do that?
> not really
It's your research project, sweetheart, not mine.
> read books
They're all triple-deckers. Are you sure you want to do that?
> I guess so
Such enthusiasm!
A fog swirls around the screen, and...
You are sitting at a ROLLTOP DESK in front of a LAPTOP. There are many BOOKS and PHOTOCOPIES here. There is a NOCTURNAL RESEARCH LIBRARIAN here.
Another stack of books has appeared next to the desk.
> what the heck?
I don't understand.
> help
If you research it, the books will come.
> stop books
BWAHAHAHA!
> end game
Sorry, kiddo. This is why you took a sabbatical, remember?