Blackness is a Z-machine interactive fiction game written with Inform 7 and is © 2013 by Michael Wayne Phipps Jr. It was an entry in Ectocomp 2013 where it tied for 9th place.
In this short horror game, you play as a hospital janitor. You just need to mop a couple floors and then you can go home. Assuming the blackness doesn't get you first.
This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on Release 1 of the game.
Long Hallway
You need to clean this floor, then radiology's. But before you do so, you should get something from the closet first.
> x me. i. x uniform. x key. x mop.
> x equipment. w.
By Stairs
> u. (No reason to.)
> s. (Locked.)
> unlock door with key. s.
Janitor Closet
> x chemicals. x sign. take sign.
> n. e.
Long Hallway.
It's important that you leave the sign here.
> mop floor. drop sign. e.
Outside of Radiology
> x symbol. n.
Radiology
> x machine. mop floor.
You see twenty phantom hands emerge from the wall! Run!
> s.
Outside of Radiology
There is a blackness following you! If you stop to look at it, you'll die. Keep moving away from it!
> w.
Long Hallway
The wet floor sign saves your life, but keep moving!
> s.
Nurse Station
One more step!
> s.
Emergency
You had a heart attack, but you were treated promptly.
*** You have lived. ***
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