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The game doesn't check if you look out the window twice during the Snark attack #31

Open eriktorbjorn opened 4 years ago

eriktorbjorn commented 4 years ago
>WAIT
(I assume you mean: wait 10 turns.)
Time passes...

Suddenly an alarm rings through the Aquadome! Marv Siegel yells over the squawk
box:
"Now hear this! Two blips have appeared on the Aquadome sonar equipment! No
definite form, but they're large, and they're coming closer."
Tip says, "One of them must be the Snark!" "Look out the window, Torbjorn!"

>LOOK OUT THE WINDOW
The Aquadome's search lights probe the ocean, but the sea water is too murky for
the beams to penetrate.
"Tip's right!" Commander Bly says. "That must be the Snark out there. Its
tentacles churned up silt from the seabed that way during its first attack,
Torbjorn!"

Even as you try this, the undersea nightmare takes shape!
"Holy spaghetti! LOOK at that thing!" cries Tip.
A hideous creature, with bulblike eyes near its snout, rears out of the murk,
its tentacles flailing the sea water! In this moment of terror, the Snark seems
as big as a house, and it's just outside the Aquadome!

>LOOK OUT THE WINDOW
The Aquadome's search lights probe the ocean, but the sea water is too murky for
the beams to penetrate.
"Tip's right!" Commander Bly says. "That must be the Snark out there. Its
tentacles churned up silt from the seabed that way during its first attack,
Torbjorn!"

No more time for that! The Snark has flopped down on the Aquadome! There's a
sound like thunder as the plastic hemisphere cracks under the impact! The crew's
screams of fear are drowned by the roar of the sea!
The Atlantic Ocean is pouring into the Aquadome! And your last thought, before a
zillion tons of sea water crushes you to jelly, is "Oh gosh! I wonder if I shut
off the Bunsen burner in the lab?"

(You'll probably do better if you restart and use fewer turns next time.)

Your score is 74 points out of 100, in 368 turns.
This score gives you the rank of a very good adventurer.

That's because WINDOW-F doesn't check if it's already printed Bly's lines. I don't know if that's worth doing anything about, though.