Feathers in Interactive Fiction

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  Balances (1994)

  > x tortoise feather (@ Crest of Hill)

  Possibly your rarest, and also least valuable, possession.

• Cacophony (2009)

  > x feather (@ Street)

  Pure white. It seems strangely incongruous to see such a thing.

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  Dr. Dumont's Wild P.A.R.T.I. (1999)

  > x feathers (@ Dressing Room)

  They're soft as duck down. Which is convenient, since that's what they are.

• Dutch Dapper IV: The Final Voyage (2002)

  > x feather (@ Control Centre)

  A beautiful feather from a Frammon Bird. They're very rare!

• Encyclopedia of Elementals (2013)

  > x feathers (@ The Butcher's Shop)

  They are very brightly colored and you wonder kind of bird it is the hunter killed.

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  Firebird (1998)

  > x feather (@ Darker and Deeper)

  It's a long tail feather, belonging to the Firebird. It casts a warm glow.

• Happy Ever After (2000)

  > x feather (@ Forest)

  A single feather, dropped by a lone magpie.

• The Holy Grail (1989)

  > x plume (@ Huge Hall)

  Personally I just think it makes the statue look ridiculous.

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  Ka (2010)

  > x feather (@ Hall of Two Truths)

  The little white feather looks...very light.

• Lazy Gods of Earth (2002)

  > x feathers (@ Clearing)

  A strange bundle of multicolored feathers.
  Upon inspection, the bundle of feathers turns out to be a strange garment, resembling a cloak.

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  The Lonely Troll (2022)

  > x gold feather (@ Cave)

  • A gold feather at the tip of the griffin's wing.
  • A gold feather from the griffin's wing.

  There's also ASCII art of the detached feather.

• Merk (2011)

  > x white feather (@ Apartment)

  Swanky.

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  Mingsheng (2004)

  > x feathers (@ 塔 (ta3) Inside pagoda)

  Looking up into the roof space, you cannot actually see the birds themselves - they are always careful to hide out of plain sight when roosting. The presence of their feathers, gently floating on the air currents gives them away.

• The Prize (2012)

  > x feather (@ Under the Holy Tree)

  This is the tail feather of the red bird that used to fly circles around the valley.

• A Scurvy of Wonders (2011)

  > x feather (@ Tavern)

  It smells uncannily like love. Well, love and seagull.

• Threnody (2005)

  > x white billowy plume (@ Cloakroom)

  This huge white feather appears to have plucked from the backside of a gigantic (and profoundly ugly) bird.

  The feather can come either from a hat on the first floor or from a pillow on the eighth floor.

• The Untold Story (2019)

  > x feather (@ Field)

  The feather has a peculiar red tint to it. It may be useful in your journey.

• Default response instances

  • The Island (2013): osprey feather @ Fire Trail.
  • Spellbreaker (1985): feathers @ In Roc Nest.

• Deflected examining instances

  • Muggle Studies (2012): feather @ Purple Corridor. NOTE: Although you can try to TAKE a feather in the Purple Corridor, there's no feather to examine. Weird.

• Synonyms of other things instances

  • Muggle Studies (2012): feathers ≡ nest @ Owlery.
  • Pen and Paint (2010): feathers ≡ stuff @ Your Rock.