LOCATIONMuseum AtriumTURN0SCORE0/1

THE PARSER UNDERGROUND

OBJECTIVE: recover the glass prism from the dark cellar and place it on the pedestal inside the locked archive.

Museum Atrium

A circular stone atrium surrounds a dry fountain. An iron door stands to the north, and an archway leads east into a workshop.

You can see you, brass lantern, silver key, wooden box. The iron door is locked.

TRY A COMMAND

INTERACTIVE FICTION ENGINE · 1977–1989

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PARSER LAB

Play a miniature original adventure, then stop each command inside the machinery that makes deterministic rules feel like a conversational world.

STAGE 1 OF 7

Dictionary lookup

Turn typed words into compact dictionary entries.

Enter a command to populate the parser pipeline. Try LOOK first, then deliberately create an ambiguity with OPEN BOX and TAKE KEY.

TUNE THE PARSER

Synonym expansionLets GET map to TAKE and LAMP map to LANTERN.Pronoun memoryLets IT recall the most recently resolved object.Implicit actionsLets the parser insert OPEN before entering or placing an object.

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