S. V. Linwood 2023

Language:

English

Authors:

S. V. Linwood

Systems:

Inform

Platforms:

Glulx

Genres:

IF Comp 2023

Entered by:

iamaran

Added:

21-02-2025

Edited:

21-02-2025

Synopsis

While we wait for the stroke of midnight, let me tell you a story -- the story of how this all came to be.

Ah, I remember that night as if it were yesterday. Not my ultimate triumph -- no, that is yet to come, though it won't be long now -- but the night I finally plumbed the secrets of Creation and began my journey towards true Godhood. And what a night it was! The darkening sky loomed above, with storm clouds beginning to gather on the horizon, and the low rumbling of distant thunder echoed from far away. The ideal weather for advancing the sum total of humanity's knowledge!

I set my experiment into motion. I drew the diagrams, prepared the ingredients, pronounced the words. A bright flash and my laboratory was bathed in brilliant white light. Shadows danced on the stone walls, and I laughed and laughed and laughed as everything I had toiled towards finally slotted into place. And, as the inhuman form before me began to stir, I raised my arms towards the heavens and at the top of my lungs I shouted:

"It's alive!"

Notes

1st place (out of 74) in the 29th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2023).

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