mathNEWS Issue 114.1: Friday, September 24, 2010

The MUDpit

The first encounter

UW-MUD v 0.1 alpha

Enter, Math Student, and choose your destiny.

You find yourself in the Physics building. You are hungry for ice cream.

> inventory

You have your watcard, two apples, and a katana.

> exit

You find yourself in EIT.

> look around

You encounter a group of lost trolls.

> use apples trolls

Trolls prefer free and open-source software. Apples have no effect.

> slay trolls

Attacking trolls with your bare hands would be suicide! Are you sure?

> yes

Surprisingly, you've slain the trolls. Upon closer inspection, they were arts students.

> exit building

You exit EIT. You encounter construction.

> go left

You encounter construction.

> go right

You encounter construction.

> go forward

You encounter construction.

> return to door

You encounter construction.

> return to door

You encounter construction.

> return to door

You have defeated construction. You are now a level 2 architect student.

> go left

You encounter a Linguistics Grad Student. It begins to charge.

> use katana

You move to SLICE.

But the Linguistics Grad Student disemvowels your attack!

You move to SLC.

Dazed and bewildered, you find yourself in the SLC

> go ice-cream

You bump into Dreaded Credit Card Saleswoman. Saleswoman casts charm. You are entranced with promises of free money.

> breakaway

You fail your common sense roll, you idiot. But you have a 20% daily compounded interest credit card.

> find ice-cream

You approach Federation Express.

> order ice-cream

You order ice cream from the Clerk. He is from the Pure Math faculty, and demands an artifact of great power.

> cast Architect's Greater Equilateral Triangle of Structural Integrity

An angry Linguistics Grad Student enters from the north.

The Clerk is awed by your artifact.

> order ice-cream

The Clerk is too entranced with the artifact to pay any attention to you.

> ORDER ICE-CREAM!

You are flattened by the charging beast.

The Mungeon Daster



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