Let's play Zork + Colossal Cave Adventure

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Episode A11

We resumed attempts at the Perfect Run.

Attempt 3

We followed the same approximate plan as before, hoping for better luck. We decided to try carrying around at least one treasure while making our rounds, to give the pirate more opportunity to attack.

First trip: spices, chain, silver, diamonds, trident, magazine. (Depositing the trident was a mistake, as it is needed later for the pearl.)

Second trip: vase, eggs, emerald, rug.

Third trip: pyramid. We picked up the trident again to take back into the cave.

Fourth trip: trident, pearl, gold, jewelry, coins. But we held on to the coins, to give the pirate something to steal.

Fifth trip: we went out in search of the pirate. We checked the past game transcripts to see in what rooms we’ve encountered the pirate before:

Count Room
5 maze of twisty little passages, all alike
3 Hall of the Mountain King
2 unknown
1 N/S passage
1 soft room
1 south side chamber
1 steep incline above large room
1 Swiss cheese room

This time, we found the pirate in his maze, just one room away from the dead end where he hides the chest. We delivered the coins and the chest to the house. Our score was 276 points after delivering all the treasures and leaving the magazine at Witt’s End.

While waiting for the cave to close, we experimented more with the random exits from Bedquilt. Going north from Bedquilt has a chance to take you to a junction of three secret canyons, exiting to the north, south, and SE. North from the junction is a “window on pit”: the same one we’ve visited so often before? No—it’s the other side of the mirror canyon, at last! Southeast from the junction took us back to Bedquilt. We didn’t get a chance to try the south exit from the junction, as the cave closed and we were whisked to the endgame.

In the repository, we took the dynamite (the rod with the rusty mark) from the southwest end and dropped it there, at the southwest end. Then we moved to the northeast end and blasted. The result: the wall broke open and flooded the room with lava.

New personal best: 335/350 points, Master Adventurer Class A.

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