The Chicken Under the Window is a Z-machine interactive fiction story written with Inform 6 and is © 1998 by Lucian Smith. It was a participant in the ChickenComp event.
"The Chicken Under the Window" draws its literary background from Andrew Plotkin's excellent, "The Space Under the Window," which you should go and play. You don't 'play' it like you would a normal text adventure game; instead, you type in words that you see in the text, and see what happens. Eventually, you'll have produced a full 'story'.
This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on Release 2 of the story.
The Chicken Under the Window
Note that LOOK will refresh the screen, redisplaying the story so far. You can also UNDO a move. To advance the story, always choose a non-trivial word in the last paragraph. Choosing words in a previous paragraph almost always backtracks the story to that point.
In every ending, the chicken crosses the road, although not necessarily alive. These are the endings I found and how to reach them:
The "feathered cyclone" ending:
> cars. opening. left. pattern. tires. wheels.
> forward. relentlessly.
The "magically part" ending:
> cars. opening. left. pattern. tires. wheels.
> forward. tango.
The "joyous waltz" ending:
> cars. opening. left. pattern. tires. wheels.
> assimilating. self-expression.
The "leads it hypnotically" ending:
> cars. opening. left. pattern. tires. wheels.
> assimilating. chick.
The "turns perpendicular" ending:
> cars. opening. surging. faceless.
> maelstrom. confusion. turn.
The "driven by Desire" ending:
> cars. opening. surging. faceless.
> maelstrom. confusion. brain.
The "heartlessly mown down" ending:
> cars. opening. surging. faceless.
> maelstrom. confusion. limit.
The "chicken is hit" ending:
> cars. opening. surging. faceless.
> surging. encroaching. hit.
The "chicken is smashed" ending:
> cars. opening. surging. faceless.
> surging. encroaching. close. smashed.
The "en passant" ending:
> cars. opening. surging. faceless.
> faceless. chessboard. pawn.
The "two-toned variation" ending:
> cars. opening. surging. faceless.
> faceless. chessboard. progress.
The "stacked desk" ending:
> cars. opening. surging. faceless.
> faceless. game.
And, for completeness, a bug that accidentally moves the PC into darkness:
> cars. opening. surging. faceless.
> maelstrom. current. quagmire.
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