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Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz
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Fix for the sea serpent and the crystal sphere not being described as was probably intended #73

Open eriktorbjorn opened 4 years ago

eriktorbjorn commented 4 years ago

This is in response to my initially somewhat confused bug report https://github.com/the-infocom-files/zork2/issues/56

Here is what the game currently looks like:

>LOOK
Aquarium Room
Here a dark hallway turns a corner. To the south is a dark room, to the east is
fitful light.
Filling the northern half of the room is a huge aquarium.
The aquarium contains:
  A baby sea serpent

>THROW SWORD AT AQUARIUM
[snipped for brevity]

>LOOK
Aquarium Room
Here a dark hallway turns a corner. To the south is a dark room, to the east is
fitful light.
A sword of Elvish workmanship is on the ground.
There is a dead sea serpent in a heap here.
A shattered aquarium fills the northern half of the room.
The aquarium contains:
  A clear crystal sphere

Both the sea serpent and the sphere have an LDESC, but that's never printed because they're inside a container. The sphere's LDESC gets cleared when you pick it up, so it's made to act like an FDESC.

Simply changing the LDESC to FDESC makes it look like the author probably intended:

>LOOK
Aquarium Room
Here a dark hallway turns a corner. To the south is a dark room, to the east is
fitful light.
Filling the northern half of the room is a huge aquarium.
There is a baby sea serpent swimming in the aquarium.

>THROW SWORD AT AQUARIUM
[snipped for brevity]

>LOOK
Aquarium Room
Here a dark hallway turns a corner. To the south is a dark room, to the east is
fitful light.
A sword of Elvish workmanship is on the ground.
There is a dead sea serpent in a heap here.
A shattered aquarium fills the northern half of the room.
There is a clear crystal sphere lying in the sand.