The lights, the people, the music. As you croon into your mike about the vagaries of human behavior, the fans go wild. And why shouldn’t they? This is a song they’ve loved for years, your first international hit. You’re a rock star, and here you are, on center stage, in front of a sellout crowd. Life is good … except for that man in a bear suit rushing toward you.
The security team attempts to tackle him, but they’re too late. He’s brown, he’s furry, and he’s got you in a bear hug, and suddenly everything goes dark.
BJÖRK: The Great Underground Musician Adventure
Copyright © 2008, Infocom, Inc. All rights reserved.
Revision 69105 / Serial Number 11211965
Inside the Well
You are standing at the bottom of a deep, dark well. Up above, you can see daylight. There’s a table here.
> verbose
Maximum verbosity.
> climb out
Ladies do not climb dirty, nasty well walls for any reason.
> stand on table
Unless you plan on dancing, don’t stand on the table.
> look at table
On the table is a teacup, a teapot with steaming hot tea, and a dish of sugar cubes.
> put sugar cubes in cup, pour tea into it, and drink it
Boy, is that a sweet cup of tea! You only drink half, because drinking the rest of it might kill you. Maybe it’s the intense high from the sugar, but suddenly there’s a swan under the table. The bird looks at you with distrust.
> grab bird
The bird is as quick as it is beautiful. It darts away from you.
> sing “Come to me / I’ll take care of you”
The swan happily waddles over.
> grab bird
As if in one of your many wacky videos, the bird transforms into the swan dress you wore for the 2001 Oscars.
> get dress and wear dress
After you put on your tutu, you almost feel like you could fly.
> fly away
You feel a little silly after flapping your arms about for a bit.
> drink tea
Are you sure? It could kill you.
> drink tea
You know, I’m just going to pretend you didn’t just type that. It’s nice down here in the well, nice and quiet and cool. You don’t want to be out there. Have you seen what’s happened to Iceland’s economy?
> drink tea
OK, OK. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. You drink the tea, and you feel yourself floating up and up and up.
Top of the Well
As your head pops over the lip of the well, you find a noose slipping around your neck. Lars von Trier, sitting in the director’s chair, yells, “Action!”
You get a couple of notes out, but then you stop floating and instead start falling, and …
YOU HAVE DIED
Your score is 2 out of 100, in 13 moves. This gives you a rank of Bragi Ólafsson.
END OF SESSION