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Feeling nostalgic for 1980s text adventure games? Tweet "inventory" to @YouAreCarrying.
The bot, by Andrew Vestal of Seattle, serves up random items culled from the database of all the Infocom classics, such as the Zork series, and also The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and Planetfall.
Here's a sample:
@owengood the first clue, a pellet of squid repellent, a severed head, a zorkmid bill, a fragment, a damp scroll, a loose mine.
— YOU ARE CARRYING: (@YouAreCarrying) July 6, 2014
@YouAreCarrying appears to have gone up sometime within the past two weeks. It added the complete Infocom inventory list on Tuesday.
Fans are drawing the items they were given (such as the above image, by Jon White) and tweeting them back at YouAreCarrying, so check out its feed for some of their work.
