Causes of Zombification in Zork I and possibly other Infocom games

[eriktorbjorn (Torbjörn Andersson)]

@zarf

I’m pretty sure that “die while a ghost” is a backstop case. It should be impossible, but if a player manages it, the game throws up its hands and exits.

I know this was posted several years ago, but I figured out a way to trigger it:

By the way, I think there may be a bug here? In Mainframe Zork, you don’t drown until the water is “high in your lungs”.