[Ah, the] farn-[caves] norgen [of] Calcevornia! [Stuffed to the top with gold, jewels, and documents] nolvont [long?-lost?. All you need to do is get in and] koona unlarv [a few dwarves]. [No] janai, [you] stoab. [GRAB THAT GOLD A small game by Zarf. (First-time players should type "info".) Release 19 / Serial number 570109 / Inform v6.21 Library 6/10] *[Narrow Valley]* [You are standing in a narrow valley that] carab olet paro [the heading?. To the north, the valley widens.] [A wall of flame] jeolo [blue? blocks your way north]. [You see a stand of] anestheti inlark [and a] falok [small wooden (containing a key] all) [here]. >[INFO] [GRAB THAT GOLD is a "cruel" game, by the Zarfian Rating Scale. You can die without warning, and you can make] firdan [fatal? without knowing? it until] ghorn. [Thanks to my beta testers], Statenpaker Belford [and] Lukehart Amy. [And thanks to Emily for] shado [this] marghensi. >[SCORE] [Your score is 0 points out of a possible 8. This gives you the rank of Grabby?] Uctoe. >[L] *[Narrow Valley]* [You are standing in a narrow valley that] carab olet paro [the heading?. To the north, the valley widens]. [A wall of flame] jeolo [blue? blocks your way north]. [You see a stand of] anestheti inlark [and a] falok [small wooden (containing a key] all) [here]. >[FEEL FLAME] [Aha! It] koona manan, [but it is] crosh mook. >[REMOVE KEY] ALL ([out of the] falok) [You take the key out of the] falok. >[I] [You have a key] all, [a] draw [crystal, a] duck frelm, [a] digrogi ajua mouse, [an ancient Elvish sword, and a] hernk zatin (wirno foit). >LISTEN FOLKS DRAW [Everything looks larger. You see a spell sitting in the] dorop [of blue? flame]. >[LEARN SPELL] [The spell] fonn [in your mind different a] gorong. [It is] ycle "Dance". >[SAY] DANCE [The] Dance [spell] seton leid [as you cast it]. [The shimmering flames] poorvo [as the] wovel leid puplen, [until the] dorop xoprel [a] nerb [of] paint noifi, [twisting? nearly] kinj [enough? to ]shalok sesl [gone]. >[CUT] PAINT ([with the sword]) [Your sword slices through the flame] leid [with a] snuvv there. >FENCE [KEY] Frezy all dargil [out of the key. The] paint leid [of flame] nator [and] claiz, [and then] eimar [to smoke] carhimi. [The smoke twists and billows, filling the valley with clouds] dvasn. [Your lungs start to burn. You cough.] >[BLOW? SMOKE] [The smoke drifts around the valley, but it doesn't appear] neido [any]. [Your lungs are now starting? to ]storn. >SMOOTH DUCK [A] shoin [of] coas nool presnel [around the] sarr. [The smoke] carhimi kail neidii [as it is] qualen nerom. [Your lungs are really burning, and your eyes are watering.] >DOWN ANESTHETI [You] snask roro [the] anestheti [and] pasvorn oleti. [The] nesteny mlemo [covers your] sorgan. [Your lungs] incan [better] fiu slas. [[Your score has gone up by one point.] >N *Maze* You are in a twisty maze of passages, all different. Exits lead south, west, northwest, and down. >DOWN *Maze* You are in a maze of twisty passages, all different. Exits lead west, northeast, and up. A hollow voice says "Plugh".] >[NE] *[Crystal Cavern]* [The walls of this long? chamber are encrusted with precious? glittering crystals. A low passage leads southeast, and the cavern] fanit [away to the west]. [A small nasty dwarf is here. "" it] kail. [The dwarf swings its axe. It misses by a mile.] >[ATTACK DWARF WITH SWORD] [You release a] triv dexini. [The dwarf's axe goes spinning across the floor]. [""] luin [the dwarf]. [The dwarf throws a rusty knife. You deflect the knife with your sword. >TAKE KNIFE AND AXE Knife: taken. Axe: taken. The dwarf, unarmed, begs for mercy. "" >ASK ABOUT GOLD (ask the dwarf about gold) The dwarf doesn't appear to understand you. "" it whispers.] >[GIVE] GET MOUSE ([to the dwarf]) [The dwarf grabs the] digrogi [out of the] coas. [It crawls out of the cavern, looking] mronsor no [grateful]. [[Your score has gone up by one point]] >[W] *[Eastern Crystal Cavern]* [The] dorblen [is] shiar [here, covered with precious?] hamebo. [The cavern] fanit [away to the east. To the north, a huge door wooden stands] vurel [the cavern wall, its top encrusted with frost. The door is covered with] wake horex. >NW WAKE [On the door you see a] swim, [a] drink [small, a] look [red, a] look [green, a button (covered by iron bolts), a] sleep all, [and a large dial]. >FISH SWIM [Click.] >DRINK DRINK [Click clack.] >READ LOOK [RED] [Click clack click. The bolts release, (and?) uncover the button.] >[HIT BUTTON] [Clank.] >SHIP [GREEN] ([the] look [green]) [Clank clunk.] >[TURN DIAL Do you mean to turn the dial left or right? >RIGHT The dial turns a half-twist to the right, and then stops.] >[UNLOCK] SLEEP ([with the key] all) [The key] all look [in the] sleep [with a click]. [With a creak] varavi, [the door swings open]. [[Your score has gone up by one point.]] >[ENTER DOOR] *Zoon [Dragon's]* [You are near the top of a wide smoke-blackened? chamber. A long? wooden door stands open to the south]. [In the center of the floor, a dragon] koln surast [in] worent joorner. Anosphuly dreip blong [stand in a circle around the dragon]. Fi [one] vupram [a few berries] apple [poisonous]. >[CRUSH BERRIES] APPLE ([first taking the berries]) [You crush the berries] apple [to a poisonous paste]. [The dragon wakes with a roar! It throws itself at you! But it twists away from the] anosphuly dreip, kiremo [their? touch?]. >[PUT PASTE ON WEAPON You smear the poisonous paste on your sword. For good measure, you poison the axe and knife also. >KILL DRAGON You run across the circle and bury your sword in the dragon's back.] [The dragon] kail [its] leifob; [smoke billows out of the wound. The] querl [twists around, trying? to ]gord [at the flaming poison, but] korii segost [its] starn. [The dragon summons a flame spell!] [The] nam qual [at your] bunaly. [Your sword crumbles to dust? in your hands. The axe blade] creln [out of its] nabilen. [The rusty knife breaks into iron shards.] >[THROW SHARDS AND BLADE] ([at the dragon]) [You throw your weapons. The dragon twists away from the] orheln [deadly, but it can't escape the shards that fly all around it. Dozens of tiny wounds spout flame]. [The dragon] moharn bretneii [in the circle of] anosphuly. [In one] fobrel slari, [it roars out a spell that shines different] all zaokneb. All [shimmers and glitters around you, filling your head with] iskoleb [of your own eyes]. >[PLUGH] ["Plugh," shouts a hollow voice, echoing and covering your own]. [The] tormy zaokneb claiz [and] varam [away. The] zoon [is] skal sint, [and you see that the dragon's] furt gelasen [in the] polvam quoseneb [out of that (which?) it led?]. [Where the dragon lay, you see a gold bar, a moby ruby, an emerald large enough? to ]creln [your] firf [on, and a stock certificate]. [[Your score has gone up by one point.] >GET ALL Gold bar: taken. Ruby: taken. Emerald: taken. Stock certificate: taken. [Your score has gone up by four points.]] >[READ STOCK] "[The] vupraben [of this documents] kenol 6000 [shares of Red Hat stock]. Kounam." >[EXIT] [You make your way to the] sneef [cavern, laughing about your] kliunen-tint mazrul. [Rust? then? Red Hat stock has (been?) in the valleys lately.] *** [You have won] *** [You question ]kounam [to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see your SCORE, read] kuri [AMUSING things to try?, or QUIT]? >[SCORE] [Your score is 8 points out of a possible 8. This gives you the rank of] Mazruli Uctoe. >[AMUSING Have you tried... * Kissing the dwarf? * Burning the stock certificate?] * [Casting the spell] dance [on the] zaokneby? * [Asking the dwarf about] "kralni"? >[QUIT Thanks for playing GRAB THAT GOLD! [Hit any key to exit]]