The transcript will be saved to the file. Type SCRIPT OFF to discontinue scripting. >about An interactive fiction (an entry in ShuffleComp 2014) inspired by the song "Look Around the Corner" by Quantic & Alice Russell with the Combo Bárbaro. Thanks to my testers: Scooter Burch, Juhana Leinonen, Jason McIntosh, Zach Samuels, Carolyn VanEseltine, Olly V., and Caleb Wilson. Also thanks to Sam Kabo Ashwell for organizing the competition, and thanks to Caleb Wilson, Andrew Schultz, and Jason Dyer for posting positive reviews during the comp. :) Extra-special thanks to the Mysterious Strangers who submitted the song "Look Around the Corner" and the pseudonym "Robert Whitlock". I hope to learn your identities some day so I can properly thank you here! Please feel free to send me feedback . The source code is available (under the AGPLv3) on GitHub , where you can also submit bug reports. The text is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. >l Bedroom (lying on the bed) This is your bedroom, or at least you think it is. The room is mostly very dim and indistinct. To the north stretches a long hallway, lit at the far end by the new light of the dawn. >x me You have been yourself since the earliest recording of time. You will be yourself till our days are done. >i You are empty-handed. >get up Okay, you’re now standing. >x bed You see nothing unusual about it. >look under bed You see nothing unusual under the bed. >x pillow The word “pillow” is not necessary in this story. (If this was an accidental misspelling, you can correct it by typing OOPS followed by the corrected word now. Any time the story points out an unknown word, you can correct a misspelling using OOPS as your next command.) >l Bedroom This is your bedroom, or at least you think it is. The room is mostly very dim and indistinct. To the north stretches a long hallway, lit at the far end by the new light of the dawn. >n Eyes wide open, you tread wisely down the length of the hallway. Hallway Here at the north end of the hallway, the dawn light streams in from around the corner to the east. Back to the south is your bedroom. >e You step around the corner, into the light. ~o~ The light is not coming from (just) the sun, but from all the stars in the sky. The light from each star has been traveling for years or eons to reach your eyes, while the matter that makes up your body and everything you know also came from the stars long before that. ~o~ So enchanted, hypnotized by Space and time... Who knows if this is all there is? Come the morning, we get to start anew. Bedroom (lying on the bed) This is your bedroom, or at least you think it is. The room is mostly very dim and indistinct. To the north stretches a long hallway, lit at the far end by the new light of the dawn. The light looks a little different than it did yesterday. Another day is born, rise up! >* lol, wut? Comment recorded. >get up Okay, you’re now standing. >x bed You see nothing unusual about it. >look under bed You see nothing unusual under the bed. >n Eyes wide open, you tread wisely down the length of the hallway. Hallway Here at the north end of the hallway, the dawn light streams in from around the corner to the east. Back to the south is your bedroom. >e You step around the corner, into the light. ~o~ The light of the dawn filters through an enormous tree, whose trunk divides into branches, whose branches divide into twigs, whose twigs carry leaves. Each leaf has veins that branch into smaller and smaller veins, bringing water and minerals to every chlorophyllic cell. ~o~ So enchanted, hypnotized by Leaves and branches... Who knows if this is all there is? Come the morning, we get to start anew. Bedroom (lying on the bed) This is your bedroom, or at least you think it is. The room is mostly very dim and indistinct. To the north stretches a long hallway, lit at the far end by the new light of the dawn. The light looks a little different than it did yesterday. Another day is here, rise up! >* Im not getting my morning coffee, am I? Comment recorded. >x bed You are lying on the bed. >get up Okay, you’re now standing. >look under bed You see nothing unusual under the bed. >n Eyes wide open, you tread wisely down the length of the hallway. Hallway Here at the north end of the hallway, the dawn light streams in from around the corner to the east. Back to the south is your bedroom. >s Bedroom This is your bedroom, or at least you think it is. The room is mostly very dim and indistinct. To the north stretches a long hallway, lit at the far end by the new light of the dawn. The light looks a little different than it did yesterday. >x light At the end of the hallway, the new light of the dawn streams in from around the corner. >n Eyes wide open, you tread wisely down the length of the hallway. Hallway Here at the north end of the hallway, the dawn light streams in from around the corner to the east. Back to the south is your bedroom. >x light You look around the corner, into the light. ~o~ The light is emanating from a giant eye, the eye of Enki, from Ki-En-Gir, the land of the lords of brightness. The eye is a disc of smaller eyes, and each smaller eye is itself a disc of smaller eyes, and so on, until you can make out the smallest quantic layer of eyes. They look back at you, unblinking. ~o~ So enchanted, hypnotized by Eyes and souls... Who knows if this is all there is? Come the morning, we get to start anew. Bedroom (lying on the bed) This is your bedroom, or at least you think it is. The room is mostly very dim and indistinct. To the north stretches a long hallway, lit at the far end by the new light of the dawn. The light looks a little different than it did yesterday. Another day is here, rise up! >* ok, that raises LOTS of questions Comment recorded. >get up Okay, you’re now standing. >look under bed You see nothing unusual under the bed. >l Bedroom This is your bedroom, or at least you think it is. The room is mostly very dim and indistinct. To the north stretches a long hallway, lit at the far end by the new light of the dawn. The light looks a little different than it did yesterday. >n Eyes wide open, you tread wisely down the length of the hallway. Hallway Here at the north end of the hallway, the dawn light streams in from around the corner to the east. Back to the south is your bedroom. >e You step around the corner, into the light. ~o~ The light beams from the center of a rapidly spinning wheel. Around that wheel is a larger wheel, spinning once for every ten revolutions of the inner wheel. Around that wheel is a still larger wheel, spinning ten times slower, and so on, out to the outermost wheel which is perfectly motionless. ~o~ So enchanted, hypnotized by Eternity and stillness... Who knows if this is all there is? Come the morning, we get to start anew. Bedroom (lying on the bed) This is your bedroom, or at least you think it is. The room is mostly very dim and indistinct. To the north stretches a long hallway, lit at the far end by the new light of the dawn. The light looks a little different than it did yesterday. Another day is born, rise up! >* im still kind of wondering about that eye thing Comment recorded. >get up Okay, you’re now standing. >look under bed You see nothing unusual under the bed. >n Eyes wide open, you tread wisely down the length of the hallway. Hallway Here at the north end of the hallway, the dawn light streams in from around the corner to the east. Back to the south is your bedroom. >e You step around the corner, into the light. ~o~ The light decomposes into a lattice of lines and angles, strobing from side to side and up and down. The steady movement of lines across intersecting lines forms a periodic syncopation in alternating dimensions. ~o~ So enchanted, hypnotized by Patterns and rhythms... Who knows if this is all there is? Come the morning, we get to start anew. Bedroom (lying on the bed) This is your bedroom, or at least you think it is. The room is mostly very dim and indistinct. To the north stretches a long hallway, lit at the far end by the new light of the dawn. The light looks a little different than it did yesterday. Another day is born, rise up! >* sure, but... that was really a lot of eyes Comment recorded. >get up Okay, you’re now standing. >look under bed You see nothing unusual under the bed. >n Eyes wide open, you tread wisely down the length of the hallway. Hallway Here at the north end of the hallway, the dawn light streams in from around the corner to the east. Back to the south is your bedroom. >e You step around the corner, into the light. ~o~ The light is not coming from (just) the sun, but from all the stars in the sky. The light from each star has been traveling for years or eons to reach your eyes, while the matter that makes up your body and everything you know also came from the stars long before that. ~o~ So enchanted, hypnotized by Space and time... Who knows if this is all there is? Come the morning, we get to start anew. Bedroom (lying on the bed) This is your bedroom, or at least you think it is. The room is mostly very dim and indistinct. To the north stretches a long hallway, lit at the far end by the new light of the dawn. The light looks a little different than it did yesterday. Another day is here, rise up! >* I take it back. I don't need to see those eyes again Comment recorded. >sleep You close your eyes and swiftly drift off to sleep, to the gently pulsating sound of violins... You wake up to the sound and smell of sizzling bacon drifting in from down the hall. "Dear, were you sleepwalking again?" *** You have woken up. *** Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, or QUIT? >quit