Scarlet Portrait Parlor is a Glulx interactive fiction story written with Inform 7 and is © 2020 by Mathbrush (as "Prismatik"). It was an entry in Event One of Ryan Veeder's Exposition 2020 where it took 3rd place. Ryan Veeder awarded Scarlet Portrait Parlor 8 points out of 10.
In this minimalist story: Darkness has fallen. There is a loom. You carry a heavy guilt.
This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on Release 1 of the story.
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Scarlet Portrait Parlor
There's really very little to do here. To properly appreciate this story, you need to read the source code: it's poetry.
> i. x guilt.
> x loom. take loom.
> drop guilt. (can't!)
> d.
Lair
> x portraits. u.
Scarlet Portrait Parlor
> put guilt on loom.
*** It's done. ***
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