A spy's heist, an appetizer for IFComp authors & judges...

As we say in Italy, “gli ultimi giorni/ore sono sempre più lunghe”, I have a nifty little idea, a tiny parser IF, written in few days, which I hope allow unwinding and relax to IFComp authors and a little warm-up for judges & reviewiers.

It’s written in Inform 6/standard library and is very tiny, 8 rooms and two and half puzzles, and rated “merciful”.
What perhaps is the most interesting feature, in trying to minimise my proverbial bad english, I have limited rooms & object descriptions to 1-4 80 column lines (~80-300 characters) aside the opening and ending text, which are around 10-12 lines (~1k characters) and can be solved in ~20-25 moves.

of course, for keeping my little surprise, and knowing that everyone else is busy with the 'Comp, there was no ßtesting, so I apologise for possible bugs and/or inconsistencies.

Without further ado, here is:

heispy.z5 (67.5 KB)

(of course, later I’ll upload it in the IFArchive)

hope that my little present will be welcome, and

Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.

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the one time I went to Italy I saw a guy with an apron that said “Un uomo senza pancia è come un cielo senza stelle” But thanks for the appetizer!

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We who have pancie appreciate you saying that!

I admit that I’m in the mid-50s, :smiley:

Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.

I am going to play your Game by now.

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I have played and reached the end, now I am sensing you the transcript.