Return to the Alice tutorialThis dialogue was with the game resulting from alice3.inf, the final state of the game developed in the course of Gareth Rees's Tutorial.
Commands typed by the player follow the > prompt and are in CAPITAL LETTERS.
It's a cold winter day outside, but in the looking-glass house it's summer. All you need to do is pretend there's a way of getting through into it somehow...
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
An Interactive Tutorial
by Gareth Rees
Release 1 / Serial number 961110 / Inform v6.06 Library 6/3 D
Standard interpreter 0.2
Drawing room
The gentle sound of snow against the window pane suggests that it's cold outside, and you're glad to be here in the warmth. The drawing-room is reflected in the large looking-glass on the wall above the mantelpiece, and a very comfortable room it is too, with a warm hearth, a soft rug and an arm-chair that you can curl up and sleep in.
An abandoned chess board lies on the floor.
A discarded ball of worsted lies on the floor here.
Two kittens, one white and one black, are playing together by the arm-chair.
> EXAMINE CHESSBOARD
It's left here from the game you were playing just now, but the pieces are all missing - the kittens will insist on playing with them.
The black kitten sits up and washes its tail.
> EXAMINE WHITE KNIGHT
Alas, that chess piece seems to be missing. Those naughty kittens!
The white kitten chases after the black kitten.
> EXAMINE MIRROR
In the looking-glass you can see the ceiling of the drawing-room of the looking-glass house. It looks much the same as the ceiling of your drawing-room.
The black kitten chases its tail.
> ENTER MIRROR
You can't reach the looking-glass from where you're standing.
> GET ON MANTELPIECE
The mantelpiece is much too high to climb up onto.
> MOVE CHAIR
You are about to start moving the chair when you notice that the white kitten is right in the way. It's a good thing you spotted it, or you would have squashed flat the poor little thing.
The white kitten scratches its head on the arm-chair.
> GET BLACK KITTEN
You pick up the black kitten. What a beautiful creature it is!
The black kitten mews plaintively.
> EXAMINE BLACK
What a beautiful kitten the black kitten is. Why, it's quite definitely your favourite of the pair, and much prettier than that naughty white kitten.
> LOOK
Drawing room
The gentle sound of snow against the window pane suggests that it's cold outside, and you're glad to be here in the warmth. The drawing-room is reflected in the large looking-glass on the wall above the mantelpiece, and a very comfortable room it is too, with a warm hearth, a soft rug and an arm-chair that you can curl up and sleep in.
An abandoned chess board lies on the floor.
A discarded ball of worsted lies on the floor here.
A white kitten is playing by the arm-chair.
> MOVE CHAIR
Not with a kitten in your arms!
The white kitten chases its tail.
> DROP ALL
(the black kitten)
The black kitten squirms out of your arms and scampers away.
The black kitten scampers around the arm-chair and the white kitten chases after it.
> GET WOOL
Taken.
The white kitten washes the black kitten.
> GIVE WOOL TO WHITE
You toss the ball of worsted onto the floor and the white kitten scampers after it, quickly turning the neat ball into a tangle.
The black kitten chases its tail.
> LOOK
Drawing room
The gentle sound of snow against the window pane suggests that it's cold outside, and you're glad to be here in the warmth. The drawing-room is reflected in the large looking-glass on the wall above the mantelpiece, and a very comfortable room it is too, with a warm hearth, a soft rug and an arm-chair that you can curl up and sleep in.
A white kitten is playing with a ball of worsted.
A black kitten is playing by the arm-chair.
An abandoned chess board lies on the floor.
The white kitten stops playing and scratches its ears.
> GET BLACK
You pick up the black kitten. What a beautiful creature it is!
> MOVE CHAIR
Not with a kitten in your arms!
> LOOK UNDER RUG
You lift up a corner of the rug and, peering underneath, discover the red queen from the chess set.
The black kitten purrs contentedly to itself.
> EXAMINE RUG
It's a beautiful rug, made in some far off country, perhaps India or Araby, wherever those might be.
The white kitten jumps into the ball of worsted and gets tangled up in a mess of threads.
> GIVE RED QUEEN TO BLACK
You toss the red queen onto the floor and the black kitten squirms out of your grasp and scampers after it.
The black kitten bites the red queen and shakes it to make sure that it's dead.
> MOVE CHAIR
You push the arm-chair over to the hearth.
> GET ON CHAIR
You jump into the warm and comfortable arm-chair.
The black kitten stops to wash itself.
> GET ON MANTELPIECE
You scramble up onto the mantelpiece.
The white kitten bats at the ball of worsted with its paw.
> EXAMINE MIRROR
Strangely, the glass is beginning to melt away, just like a bright silvery mist.
The black kitten knocks the red queen across the floor and chases after it.
> ENTER MIRROR
Your hand goes right through the silvery mist, and in another moment the rest of you follows, and you are through the glass...
*** You have won ***