Marnie Parker 1997

Language:

English

Authors:

Marnie Parker

Systems:

Inform

Platforms:

Z-Machine

Genres:

Horror, Treasure hunt

Entered by:

Garry

Added:

05-01-2025

Synopsis

Yesterday, an attorney contacted you and asked you to come to his office. He told you that your Uncle Arnold had left you his estate, a fortune estimated to be in excess of ten million dollars. The catch is that you will only inherit it if you can recover the lost family heirloom, the MacAdam Claymore, within 48 hours of arriving at the abandoned family mansion. If you fail, your nasty cousin Melvin will get a chance.

The mansion is rumoured to be haunted. The townspeople avoid it like the plague and even Arnold himself fled after spending only a few nights there.

As the attorney drops you off at the gate of the mansion, he tells you to meet him back there, sword in hand, at 8:00 p.m. on Sunday or forfeit the inheritance.

Notes

The help indicates that this is a rewrite of her first game written for the Apple IIc sometime around 1982. I have not been able to find any references to this, so it may have been unpublished.

The Z-code version was originally entered in the 3rd Annual Interactive Fiction Competition, then withdrawn, as there were one or two bugs that left the game unfinishable.

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