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From: ceforma@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Christopher E. Forman)
Subject: Re: Zork Zero, and rapidly falling.
Message-ID: <1995Sep16.170055.177133@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 17:00:55 GMT
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Carl Muckenhoupt (baf@laraby.tiac.net) wrote:
: >: (possible spoilers)













: Periods work just as well as "then".  For the record, Infocom has
: _always_ supported this syntax, ever since the original Zork.  Although I
: can only think of one other game that requires the player to use it...

I believe this other game was "Border Zone," since in one situation you have
to knock on a door and then give a password, but there's not enough time to
actually type it in (which means you have to use "then").

: I believe the knight obeys "n. nw."  Since the knight doesn't actually pass
: through the intervening squares, all that matters is that the path you
: specify ends on a valid square, right?  (This implies that things like
: "knight, n. nw. ne. e. se. w." would work.  I don't know if this is true.)

Yes, this will work.
For a longer solution that has the same effect, you could do:

  GIVE THE PERCH TO THE KNIGHT.
  KNIGHT, N.
  DROP THE PIGEON THEN TAKE IT.
  KNIGHT, NW.
  DROP THE PIGEON THEN TAKE IT.
  KNIGHT, SE.
  DROP THE PIGEON THEN TAKE IT.
  KNIGHT, S.
  DROP THE PIGEON THEN TAKE IT.

This moves the player into each of the rooms the knight visits.  (Of course,
you can't actually pick up the hardhat, since the knight gets to it first.)
-- 
C.E. Forman                                      ceforma@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu
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