Bells in Interactive Fiction

• Arthur Yahtzee: The Curse of Hell's Cheesecake (2000)

  > x bell (@ West bank of river)

  The bell is slightly cracked and hangs from its support loosely. It must have been used an awful lot.

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  Aunts and Butlers (2006)

  > x silver bell (@ Drawing Room)

  A small silver bell in a curving cone shape, with an intricate pattern of carvings around the mouth.

• The Awakening (1998)

  > x bell (@ Belfry)

  This massive bell once summoned worshippers to the church. Now, it only serves as the home for birds and rodents. The mount for the bell has broken on one side, and the other is barely holding on. You are surprised that it has not broken free and plummeted from the steeple before this.

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  > x bell (@ Front of the Church)

  The bell lies half buried in the mud. The fall has cracked and dented it to the point where it will obviously never ring again.

  This is the bell from the belfry after it has fallen.
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  Basilica de Sangre (2018)

  > x bells (@ Belfry)

  Massive cast-iron church bells.

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  Birmingham IV (2018)

  > x dirty bell (@ Belfry)

  Ancient, with no maker's name.

• Bullhockey 2: The Return of The Leather Whip (2019)

  > x hand-bell (@ Lobby)

  It's one of those service bells where you hit the button on top and it rings. It is shiny. The concierge uses it, traditionally, to call bellhops. Though you are sure that it's more likely that guests use it to call concierges.

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  Citizen of Nowhere (2019)

  > x bell (@ Dingbat's Cave)

  A brass handbell with a leather handle, it is clasped in one of Dingbat's paws.

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  > x small bell (@ Dingbat's Cave)

  a small brass bell.

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  Cragne Manor (2018)

  > x silver bell (@ Cragne Library Forbidden Annex)

  It's a beautiful, delicate little silver bell, patterned with intricate designs too small for your eyes to make out in the dim light.

• Danger School (2001)

  > x bell (@ Your bedroom)

  It's the bell that you ring when you want your trained monkey servant, Arthur, to bring you something.

• Dawn of the Demon (2005)

  > x bell (@ River Styx)

  The bell is mounted high and out of reach, but there is a rope dangling down from it.

• Dinner Bell (2012)

  > x dinner bell (@ Test Chamber)

  When the bell goes ding, it is time to eat. It is time to eat when the bell goes ding. You cannot eat until the bell goes ding. Bell : ding :: time : eat. You understand this with every fibre of your being. Sometimes (actually, most of the time) it's all you understand anymore.

• Escape from the Arboretum (2002)

  > x bell (@ inside an electricity shop)

  The bell is fixed securely to the wall and carries a small notice above.
  It has a button and a slit in it's face.

• Eye of the Inca (1992)

  > examine bell (@ Sacrificial chamber)

  It is small, but sturdy. Something like the more modern hand-rung school bell.

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  The Four Eccentrics (2019)

  > x bell (@ Archway)

  • A wide brass bell, its clapper quivering as you lean in to inspect it.
  • A wide brass bell, stifled with a wad of cotton cloth.
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  further (2013)

  > x ruddy bell (@ Foggy Room)

  A memory of a bell

  [if not in inventory, add:] (You could pick it up).

• Ghost Train (2003)

  > x bell (@ Bell Tower)

  The single bell is mounted in a wooden frame. The bell is almost six feet tall. The bronze has oxidized to an olive green colour.

• The Holy Grail (1989)

  > x bell (@ Magick Shoppe)

  On it you see engraved - "Please ring for service."

• The Horror of Rylvania (1993)

  > x bell (@ Belfry)

  You can't really see the bell very well; it's high overhead, and shrouded in darkness.

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  Igor's Quest (2020)

  > x bell (@ Study)

  Rope attached.

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  The Legend of Horse Girl (2022)

  > x bell (@ Tower)

  • A large sanctus bell, inscribed with the epigraph "The sound of this bell vanquishes tempests, repels demons, and summons men." It would normally ring to signal the start of service, but it has no bellrope. You would need to hang a rope from the bell to fix that.
  • The bell has a long rope hanging from its tongue down into the church below. If you want to pull it, you'll have to descend back down to the church.
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  Muggle Studies (2012)

  > x iron bell (@ Dumbledore's Office)

  A little iron bell with a slightly rusty clapper. [if unmoved, add:] It's lying on its side, as though somebody hastily dropped it.

• pigpancake (2011)

  > x cowbell (@ Farm)

  It's an ancient old cowbell, almost worn through in spots, but it looks like it could still make quite a clamor.

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  Poppet (2019)

  > x bell (@ Hallway)

  A small jingle bell that makes a merry sound when you shake it.

• Search for the Sacred Stone (2005)

  > examine bell (@ Front desk of the Royal Ritz Hotel)

  It's one of those metallic bells you ring for service. It is securely attached to the countertop.

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  A Very Hairy Fish-Mess (2009)

  > x silver bell (@ Fishmas Wonderland)

  It's a plain silver bell in the shape of a death's head. When you ring it, an angel might get its wings, most likely by tearing them off a passing dove.

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  Wearing the Claw (1996)

  > x bell (@ Boarding House)

  This is a small brass bell, engraved with a picture of an elegant mansion.

• Wormwood Days II: The Aftermath (2003)

  > x bell (@ Messy Bedroom)

  The bell is carved with the words, "Ring for service."

• Default response instances

  • Diddlebucker! (2018): bell @ Vegas Strip.

• Synonyms of other things instances

  • Bullhockey! (2018): bell ≡ Brockwood's door @ Brockwood's Front.