Chris Willie Williams ([info]disclaimerwill) wrote,
@ 2008-07-17 11:13:00
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Ann Arbor Interlude #1: Tim and I are nerds.
I will be meeting Tim and Jess at their new apartment tonight, from where we will proceed to our usual haunt, Little Tree Sushi. As I could not remember how to get to their new place, Tim and I had the following e-mail exchange which explains why we are friends with each other. (Hint: no one else would be.)

Hey Tim,
I cannot remember how to get to your new apartment. That seems like it will be a vital part of meeting you there for Little Tree food journey tonight. So let's play a boring little poorly-translated text-based adventure game:

>You are Chris Willie Williams. Your are driving a car EAST on M-14 highway. A road sign approaches.
>look

>You are Chris Willie Williams. Your are driving a car EAST on M-14 highway. A road sign approaches.
>look sign

>The road sign tells you "I 275 junction. Obvious exits NORTH FLINT, SOUTH TOLEDO".
>inv

>Your inventory contents a CELL PHONE, SUPER MARIO WALLET, REGRET
>get off M-14

>You cannot get that.

Finish this sequence and save the damsels!!!
-Chris

Tim replies:

Tim's Ultimate Strategy Guide to the Little Tree Text-Based Adventure Game:

Answers:

From M-14 EAST

>Exit SOUTH TOLEDO on I-275
>Exit ANN ARBOR ROAD
>Turn LEFT onto ANN ARBOR ROAD
>Turn LEFT at BURGER KING onto TRANGLER ROAD
>Turn LEFT at FLEEP ROAD
>Turn RIGHT at the third STOP LIGHT to enter STONE RIDGE

ProTip: Once you get to BUILDING 74, call JESS or TIM, as the buzzer system does not seem to be functional.
ProTip: At Little Tree, when you receive the item YAKI UDON, enter the command "rapidly consume" to get a health bonus.

See you tonight, brave adventurer!



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[info]groovesinorbit
2008-07-17 03:28 pm UTC (link)
*laughs* That's wonderful. Good luck!

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[info]startoucher
2008-07-17 03:33 pm UTC (link)
I think the fact that there is an actual street in the world called Fleep Road is the best part of that whole exchange.

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[info]disclaimerwill
2008-07-17 04:02 pm UTC (link)
I actually changed the road names just so I wasn't broadcasting Tim and Jess's address over the Internet.

But I plan to use your comment on my one-sheet to promote myself during my campaign for City Planner! I think of good road names!

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[info]startoucher
2008-07-17 04:07 pm UTC (link)
Damn. I should have known it was too good to be true.

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[info]disclaimerwill
2008-07-17 05:14 pm UTC (link)
If you Google "Fleep Road," you find some old timey travelogues in which they used one of those f-lookin' s characters and the text-recognition software mistook the t for an l in the phrase "steep road."

So really, what I provided in this post was a literary allusion!

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[info]taosterman
2008-07-17 04:05 pm UTC (link)
The inclusion of ProTips is a beautiful, beautiful thing.

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[info]anderyn
2008-07-17 05:10 pm UTC (link)
Snerp. I loved this. And I could actually follow it (I LOVED text-based adventures, since I am not a point-and-click kinda gal!)

Too bad there isn't a Fleep Road. I would've loved knowing that there's that in A2, as well.

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(Anonymous)
2008-07-17 09:00 pm UTC (link)
> Use YAKI UDON.
You can't use that here!

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[info]arh006
2008-08-11 03:54 am UTC (link)
Hey it was great to see you this weekend! Thank you so much again for the cd - we just listened to it on our way back to Cleveland, and we enjoyed it immensely. Hope to see you again before too long!

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(Anonymous)
2008-08-16 04:54 pm UTC (link)
Your blog is interesting!

Keep up the good work!

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