You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.
> open mailbox
Opening the mailbox reveals:
A leaflet.
> take leaflet
Taken.
> read leaflet
Welcome to Zork!
Dungeon is a game of adventure, danger, and low cunning. In it you will explore some of the most amazing territory ever seen by mortal man. Hardened adventurers have run screaming from the terrors contained within.
In Dungeon, the intrepid explorer delves into the forgotten secrets of a lost labyrinth deep in the bowels of the earth, searching for vast treasures long hidden from prying eyes, treasures guarded by fearsome monsters and diabolical traps!
No DECsystem should be without one!
Dungeon was created at the Programming Technology Division of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science by Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling. It was inspired by the Adventure game of Crowther and Woods, and the Dungeons and Dragons game of Gygax and Arneson. The original version was written in MDL (alias MUDDLE). The current version was translated from MDL into FORTRAN IV by a somewhat paranoid DEC engineer who prefers to remain anonymous, and was later translated to C.
On-line information may be obtained with the commands HELP and INFO.
> west
You are in a forest, with trees in all directions around you. To the west is a path.
> west
You are in a dark wooded area. The path continues directly ahead.
> north
You are in a clearing. In front of you is a door. The path continues to the west. There is a stick on the ground.
> take stick
Taken.
> open door
The handle barely turns and the hinges creak loudly, but the door slowly opens.
> North
You are inside a small, dark room. In front of you is a table on which sits a book and a lantern. To the east is a stairway which leads downward into darkness.
> Take book
Taken.
> take lantern
Taken.
> drop lantern.
Dropped.
> look
You are inside a small, dark room. In front of you is a table. To the east is a stairway which leads downward into darkness.
> east
You are on a flight of stairs.
> down
You are at the bottom of a staircase in a large, dark room. There is a rug on the floor.
> take rug
Taken.
A grating appears on the floor.
> open grating
Opened.
There is a ladder leading down.
> down
You are in a maze of twistly little passages, all different. It is very dark
> north
You are in a maze of twistly little passages, all different. It is very dark
> west
You are in a maze of twistly little passages, all different. It is very dark
> south
You are in a maze of twistly little passages, all different. It is very dark. If you continue you are likely to be eaten by a grue.
> panic
I don't understand that.
> take grue
An interesting idea, but...
> get /wp-content/uploads/images/weird_eye.jpg
> 404 Not Found
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