“‘We’ blog” by Brennan Young
The Small Meeting Room is a room. “In a room scarcely glimpsed by most visitors to the school, a group of people are gathered to discuss the school blog. They’re all a bit tired, having been working with other matters most of the day. Behind a folding partition, the ghosts of upper management lunches haunt each other silently.”
A staff member is a kind of person.
A teacher is a kind of staff member .
A department head is a kind of staff member .
A blog administrator is a kind of teacher.
A communications officer is a kind of staff member.
An enterprise consultant is a kind of staff member.
A student is a kind of person.
An ex-student is a kind of person.
A person is either enthusiastic or apathetic.
A staff member is usually enthusiastic.
A projector is a kind of thing.
A projector cable is a kind of thing.
A projector cable can be too short or long enough.
In The Small Meeting Room is a male blog administrator called Herman.
In The Small Meeting Room is a male teacher called Steen.
In The Small Meeting Room is a male teacher called Brennan.
In The Small Meeting Room is a female teacher called Barbara.
In The Small Meeting Room is a female department head called Ulla.
In The Small Meeting Room is a male department head called Michael.
In The Small Meeting Room is a female communications officer called Gitte.
In The Small Meeting Room is a male enterprise consultant called Henning.
In The Small Meeting Room is a male ex-student called Heine.
In The Small Meeting Room is a projector.
In The Small Meeting Room is a projector cable.
The projector cable is too short.
Instead of examining the projector cable, say “You might be able to plug it in, but then the projector will point at the wastebasket.”
Persuasion rule for asking an enthusiastic student to try doing something:
persuasion succeeds.
Persuasion rule for asking a staff member to try doing something:
persuasion succeeds. [yeah, right]
Understand “bore [someone]” as boring.
Boring is an action applying to one thing.
Check boring:
if the noun is apathetic, say “[The noun]’s mind is obviously elsehwere!” instead.
Carry out boring:
now the noun is apathetic.
Report boring:
say “[The noun] stifles a yawn and glances at the clock.”
Understand “galvanize [someone]” as galvanizing.
Galvanizing is an action applying to one thing.
Check galvanizing:
if the noun is enthusiastic, say “[The noun] is already keen!” instead.
Carry out galvanizing:
now the noun is enthusiastic.
Report galvanizing:
say “[The noun] is now inspired enough to do whatever you suggest, creatively and with various exciting twists, that inspire you too!”;
now the player is enthusiastic.
After asking the Brennan about “blog”, say “Sometimes the source code is more interesting than the resulting software. You can paste this into the Inform7 editor and enjoy my little interactive fiction, which of course is based on fact. Partly. But what’s missing? Surely not just the URL… But of course you already found that with google or something. How else would we be discussing this?”.