Amusement Park (2004)
> x graffiti (@ Cellar)
You can barely read it, but you guess it might be "Beware of Premature Convergence".
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Graffiti in Interactive Fiction 
Let's look at graffiti!
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Amusement Park (2004)
> x graffiti (@ Cellar)
You can barely read it, but you guess it might be "Beware of Premature Convergence".
The Ascent of the Gothic Tower (2014)
> x graffito (@ Entrance 17)
The letters of "DRIEDOUT" are tangled but legible, and the vertical bar of the T fades out at the bottom, as if the tagger's marker were running out of ink—oh! Clever.
> x graffito (@ Sixth Floor Landing)
It's easier to read than some other tags you've seen, if not as elaborate. The stem of the T fading out is a nice touch.
Bio (2003)
> x graffiti (@ Men's Bathroom)
There appears to be some small writing on the wall.
Cacophony (2009)
> x graffiti (@ Street)
HELP.
Cragne Manor (2018)
> x graffiti (@ Railway Platform)
Someone has scrawled the word "Vaadignephod" on the wall in lime-green paint.
> x graffiti (@ Under the Bridge)
After the initial list is exhausted, it's randomly shuffled and run through again. The preambles are:
> x graffiti (@ Bathroom of the Meatpacking Plant)
Someone wrote "Beware Horse" on the side of the stall in marker. For some reason. Just below that they wrote "Don't use the shitter, bro!", also in marker.
> x graffiti (@ Bathroom of the Meatpacking Plant (in the stall))
There's a giant ham drawn in sharpie dominating one wall of the stall, with the words "That's a big ham!" right underneath it in bic pen. A couple of lightning bolts, some swastikas made of dicks, and a scrawl near the toilet that says "Help the toilet is pulling me in by the ass and I can't hold on any more tell my wife I lo" with just a long squiggle at the end leading down to the toilet bowl after that. Buncha' jokers in this meatpacking plant, that's for sure.
Darkiss Chapter 1: the Awakening (2015)
> x graffiti (@ Cell)
Among the innumerable and delirious messages written on the cell walls, you find something interesting: a magic formula that seems to have the power to summon the spirits of the dead from the netherworld.
Dial C for Cupcakes (2014)
> x graffiti (@ Alley)
I don't remember any of the tags specifically. You can barely read that crap regardless.
Gaucho (2012)
> x graffiti (@ Secluded Alley)
Upon one wall in this alley you see some well-worn graffiti. Looking more closely at the graffiti, you see most of it is covered in a huge black scrawl:
'WHO IS THE GAUCHO?' it says.
But below you can still make out several phrases:
Barad Slept Here
I dream of owls, you dream of bears, we all eat olives
Andrew Loves Ashley
Beware the Monocle Conspiracy
The Abductees are after me, Amigo!
Sleppen in the rain, I'm sleppen in the rain!
> x graffiti (@ Main Street - West)
It looks like some of your fellow travelers entertained themselves here, for this graffiti looks quite new. But none of it makes any sense, or helps you in your predicament!
Kwak kwak kwakkle
Free Portland, racer 68! Mikko, Eetu, Esa, the Fins are coming!
Buckle in the third sun garden
I know you, Parker sibling!
Say baa, gaard!
Got Toast? (2000)
> x graffiti (@ Classroom)
The desk, showing the affects of years of kids and classes, is almost completely covered in graffiti. You can make out clear scribbles like "Don't be a Wade!" and "JF+LM4EVR" by nameless authors.
Other older scribbles can only be made out in part. For instance, there is a long poem entitled "The Yarn of Ciron Deeddoog" which was apparently written by a child who had the misfortune of being named "Pinky Kim." The poem begins as:
"Ciron Deeddoog the Great! That's who you are,
"famous throughout the land.
"A formidable Vikin.."
but other newer graffiti smothers out the rest of the writing.
One of the most recent scribbles is a picture, apparently a self-portrait of a child who called himself "Mr. Stud-Muffin: (the coolest kid in locker 531!)." The picture is of a boy wearing sunglasses.
Grooverland (2021)
> x graffiti (@ Prowling Promenade)
It just says, "TOBY KNOWS".
Happy Ever After (2000)
> x grafitti (@ Inside the Lab)
It appears to be the number 1750 and an arrow pointing to the portal.
The Holy Grail (1989)
> x graffiti (@ Narrow Track)
I started to write something, but now I
can't remember what it was! I've got a
memory like a.. like a.. what do you
call the thing you drain spaghetti with?
The Life (and Deaths) of Doctor M (2011)
> x graffiti (@ Alley)
Next to a picture of brilliantly colored eggs are the words (in bright, bold lettering): "ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK (SAVE NOW, NOT LATER)"
The Light: Shelby's Addendum (1996)
> x graffiti (@ Secret Cave)
The word YOHO has been scrawled by an ancient hand.
The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening (2018)
> x graffito (@ Graffito)
The names of the vandals are lost to campus history. All that we know is: Someone wrote something on a wall; then, before the message could be summarily painted over, someone else prepended an additional word. Now, and since time immemorial, the wall reads:
NEVER
GIVE
UP
Meeting Robb Sherwin (2019)
> x graffiti (@ Downtown)
You usually don't like seeing graffiti, as you think it just looks tacky. However, this is some really cool artwork featuring multi-colored geometric shapes and letters with extreme detail.
Motel California (2011)
> x graffiti (@ Room 102)
The rocker spray painted across the wall, "2FROFYIEERA". He says it was important and he didn't have a piece of paper to write on. Now, he can't remember what it means."
My Evil Twin (2012)
> x graffiti (@ Vinculum Gate)
Most of it is illegible, but one particularly large one painted over the rest says "How can you be two places at once if you're not anywhere at all?".
> x graffiti (@ Vinculum Gate)
Most of it is illegible, but one particularly large one painted over the rest says "I don't want the world, I just want your half".
Opening Night (2008)
> x graffiti (@ Alley)
The theatre wall is covered in layers of graffiti.
Plane Walker (2021)
> x graffiti (@ Lecture Hall)
The graffiti appears to be notes from a past lesson scratched into the wood of one of the seats, but only one symbol is legible: √. The symbol reminds you of the lowercase letter v. For some reason, you feel that this symbol is important, and ought to be recorded more properly.
Poppet (2019)
> x graffiti (@ West foyer)
It says "Westside Ha" in big drippy red letters. The final "a" ends with a large splotch and squiggle as if the painter was interrupted mid-stroke.
Return to Ditch Day (2004)
> x graffiti (@ Alley One South)
When the Institute renovated the South Houses a few years ago, the students persuaded the housing office to preserve some of the better bits of Dabney graffiti, so what's on the walls now is a mix of old and new. The artwork here is mostly abstract psychedelica and fantasy murals, some pretty good; there's also a lot of less-than-artistic scribbling.
> x graffiti (@ Alley One North)
It's the typical mix of psychedelic art and random scrawling. One amusing bit here is labeled “Stills from the film ‘Particle in a Box’ ”: it's a series of squares, each with a dot inside, with little comics-style vibration lines around the dot. It's a quantum mechanics joke.
> x graffiti (@ Alley Two)
A large fantasy landscape mural covers one wall: towers, spires, mountains in the distance.
> x graffiti (@ Alley Two South)
This end of the hall is decorated with an expansive pattern of intertwined vines.
> x graffiti (@ Alley Three Entry)
There a couple of small abstract designs apparently saved in the last repainting, and not much else.
> x graffiti (@ Alley Three West)
There's not much here; just a couple of odd comments scribbled on the wall in small letters: “He is a fun God! He is the Sun God! Ra! Ra! Ra!” And: “Subtlety is a crutch.”
> x graffiti (@ Alley Three East)
Unlike most of the rest of the house, there's no graffiti here.
> x graffiti (@ Alley Four)
A mural of twisty, leafy vines covers one wall. Among the vines are a number of well-hidden geckos.
> x graffiti (@ Alley Four West)
A drawing of a rather Lovecraftian monster dominates one wall: tentacles, eyes by the dozen, teeth dripping with ectoplasm.
> x graffiti (@ Alley Four East)
A long, involved story is written on the wall in tiny letters. It's some kind of extended math joke.
> x graffiti (@ Alley Five Entry)
It's a math formula: e to the pi i equals negative one. That relationship among those three special numbers is always mind-blowing when you first learn it; evidently someone was amazed enough to write it on the wall.
> x graffiti (@ Middle of Alley Five)
There's a passage of what looks like Chinese calligraphy.
> x graffiti (@ Alley Five West)
A very nice rendition of some comic strip characters is drawn here. It's a boy and his stuffed tiger, from a comic strip from years past.
> x graffiti (@ Alley Five North)
It's a little snippet of a poem:
It matters not how strait the gate,
how charged with punishment the scroll
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
Now, about that midterm...
> x graffiti (@ Alley Five South)
The word “xyzzy” is written on the wall in odd, wiggly handwriting.
> x graffiti (@ Alley Six West)
A rather crude outline of a cow is drawn on the wall in spray paint.
> x graffiti (@ Middle of Alley Six)
An Escher-like drawing of a snake eating its own tail is on the wall.
> x graffiti (@ Alley Six East)
The wall is painted near the floor with life-sized bright-yellow flowers on leafy green stalks.
> x graffiti (@ Alley Six South)
The wall here features a painting of what seems to be a vampire escaping a window.
> x graffiti (@ Alley Seven)
There are lots of bits of graffiti here, including a gigantic black “Welcome to Alley 7” sign.
> x graffiti
You know you're a nerd when you start dreaming in FORTRAN
Pascal C C++ Java
QUBITS
Each programming language name has been crossed out and another has been written below, and then that replacement has been itself crossed out and replaced. Only the last entry, “QUBITS,” is left standing.
> x graffiti (@ Upper Seven North)
“...When Polly got home that night, her mother noticed that she was no longer piecewise continuous, but had been truncated in several places. But it was too late to differentiate now. As the months went by, Polly's denominator increased monotonically. Finally, she went to l'Hôpital and generated a small but pathological function which left surds all over the place, and drove Polly to deviation...”
> x graffiti (@ Lower Seven West)
An extensive mural starts with a black-and-white checkerboard at one end that transforms into a psychedelic landscape of swirls and spirals of bright, neon colors at the other end.
> x graffiti (@ Library)
There are lots of little drawings and quotes on the walls. Your favorite is a little remark near the northeast door: “The Library: Where ANYTHING can happen. (But probably won't.)”
Search for the Sacred Stone (2005)
> examine graffiti (@ Bad part of town)
Various messages and murals using colorful paint and colorful language are on display around the area.
A Shadow of Helpfulman (2011)
> x graffiti (@ Tomb of the Unknown Tool)
It reads "Tomb of the Unknown Tool".
Synonyms of other things instances