Monkeys in Interactive Fiction

Acid Rain (2021)

> x gorilla (@ Laboratory)

He doesn't look very friendly.
He's sitting in a corner picking bits of banana out of his teeth.

Arborea (2022)

> x toy monkey (@ The Palm Tree Plantations of Indonesia)

A small fluffy monkey carrying a pair of cymbals with a pull string on the back. A label on its leg says "Made in Bangladesh".

> x macaque (@ In a Fig Tree)

You're no expert, but you think he's probably a macaque.
He seems to be staring at that toy monkey that you're carrying.
He seems totally focussed on the fruit that you pinched from "his" tree.
He is dressed in an Arabian-style outfit which looks cute, you suppose, if he was destined to spend the rest of his life among people. For a wild animal, however, it is totally inappropriate.
He's back to his normal state of undress. You can't be sure but you think he's winning at table-football.

> x orangutan (@ Palm Tree Plantation (on the roof of the Outlet))

Sitting on top of a skylight on a concrete building is not what an orangutan would consider its natural habitat. From what you know of the activities of the palm oil industry, especially in Indonesia, you reckon the poor creature has little choice left.
He looks like a big happy bag of orange fur.

Are You A Chef? (2000)

> x monkey (@ Interrogation Lounge)

It's dead! Murderers! Savages! Iconoclasts!

Cragne Manor (2018)

> x monkey (@ Nursery / Carol's Room)

[1st visit] The limp and gangly sock puppet wears a baseball cap and an Army-Navy sweater."Young Master Sweetpaws recently joined us, right Sweetpaws?"
The monkey sits there, inert, but Carol continues, "Sometimes he gets up to naughtiness, but he's always back in the morning, aren't you, Sweetpaws?"
The monkey stares blankly ahead.
[3rd visit] The malevolent monkey stares down at you, its mummified face holding up reasonably well, although the skin has started retracting near the corners of its mouth, baring its teeth and reminding you that chimpanzees have large, sharp canines. Not wanting to look any more at the eyeless face, your gaze drifts downward to a its pink sweatshirt emblazoned with some sort of heraldic crest, below which a motto is written on a scroll. You squint to read it.
Noting the object of your curiosity, Carol volunteers, "It's the family coat-of-arms and motto. The background of the shield, diagonal gold stripes on a blue field, is derived from that of the village of Frolois in France, and the skull in the center commemorates Duke Regnus d'Acraigne, who was born in the 13th Century. All of the modern Cragnes are descended from him."
"Fascinating," you murmur.
Encouraged, Carol continues, "And the family motto, it says, "Qu'il me craigne', which means "that he fears me', which is apparently something that old Regnus was fond of saying, but in English it is pronounced like "Kill me Cragne'. Isn't that too much?"
"A real hoot," you manage
"So I had it made into a shirt for Master Sweetpaws, and he thinks it's delightful too. Don't you Master Sweetpaws?"
The doll leers blindly ahead with its vicious grin.

> x slime ape (@ The Old Well)

An one-eyed ape covered in slime climbs among the crags here. The black eagles get caught in its sticky trail, and it returns to eat their corpses. It is located in the howling labyrinth.

Danger School (2001)

> x Arthur (@ Your bedroom)

Arthur is standing with back straight, his eyes alert, and dressed in a cute little red jacket with brass buttons.

Arthur is your monkey butler.

Dial C for Cupcakes (2014)

> x sock monkeys (@ Squiggles 'N Dots)

Claire went on a sock monkey binge in September. When she got tired of classic Rockford Red Heels she started making cheap tube sock monkeys, argyle sock monkeys, and finally a rainbow sock monkey. Then she realized she was running out of socks.

A couple of them are wearing costumes—a witch's hat, a handkerchief with eyeholes cut out—but it's hard to find accessories sized for sock monkeys.

Dr Ego and the egg of Man-Toomba (2020)

> x monkey (@ Clearing)

It is a small grey monkey with big brown eyes. It stares back at me.

The Dream-Trap of Zzar (2011)

> x [Monkey-name] (@ various locations)

[Monkey-name] is

a fairly plain-looking monkey.
a monkey.
a monkey, like any monkey.
a monkey, like many you've seen.
a monkey, with all that entails.
a monkey (or, honestly, maybe he's a gibbon or a chimp or something).
a pretty ordinary monkey.
just a monkey.
some manner of monkey.
the kind of monkey you often see in dreams.
the kind of monkey you'd expect to be sitting around with an infinite number of friends, banging out King Lear at random on an IBM Selectric.
the kind of monkey you'd imagine wearing a fez, perhaps, or operating some kind of music box. He's doing neither, as it happens.
the kind of monkey you'd normally expect to be seeing, hearing, or speaking no evil (thus insuring six more weeks of evil).
your basic, garden-variety monkey (provided you're accustomed to gardens with monkeys in them).

He's

avoiding your gaze.
bobbing idly on his haunches.
chewing something.
giving you a big smile.
looking at you quizzically.
looking at you wide-eyed.
looking pretty bored.
making ook-ook noises.
playing with his teeth.
rocking back and forth, contemplating life.
rocking in place.
scratching himself.
shaking his head violently, apparently just to see how much he can waggle his own face.
slapping the floor beside him.
smelling his own hand.
yawning.

There are many monkeys. Their names can be Abelard, Aiden, Bobo, Brent, Carlo, Chuck, Chunky, Digit, Duke, Duggy, Eamon, Earl, Frank, Fred, George, Grimble, Henry, Hoho, Ickstein, Igor, Jamba, Jojo, Koko, Kong, Kumba, Leroy, Link, Murphy, Nason, Nero, Orson, Opoco, Papa, Pip, Quantum, Qwerty, Rei, Rick, Sam, Shingles, Stinky, Toby, Tropy, Ulster, Victor, Wilf, Winthrop, Xak, Xerxes, Yabosta, Ying-Ying, Zaboo, Zippy, and Little Lord Fauntleroy.

Future Threads (2017)

> x monkeys (@ Dense Thicket)

You can't see them, but you can certainly tell they're nearby. They'll flee when the ship crashes.

Grooverland (2021)

> x monkey (@ Sunroom)

The monkey is lanky and hairy. He has some fresh scratches on him.

Hank Buzzcrack Has A Job To Do, God Damn It (2001)

> x robot monkey (@ Museum)

A small, robotic monkey. It's been specially designed to consume vast quantities of liquid, and store it in its telescopic tail.

Llangollen Rock City (2003)

> x farming monkeys (@ Apricot farm)

The farming monkeys look like regular monkeys, except for the unexplained fact that they prefer apricots over bananas.

The farming monkeys are also called "funkeys".

Lydia's Heart (2007)

> x monkey (@ Wide Courtyard)

The monkey is light brown, with large eyes and a long slim tail. He’s not much more than a foot tall. [if untrusting] Your presence seems to make him a bit nervous. He’s curious about you, but keeping his distance. [else] He gazes up at you trustingly and from time to time reaches out to touch your leg lightly.

A Monkey Stole Your Toast! (2003)

> x monkey (@ Basement)

That's him, officer! That's the monkey that stole my toast! I mean your toast! Who am I anyway? I AM THE MONKEY! Just kidding.

Nothing But Mazes (2019)

> x monkey (@ By the Monkey)

This monkey is small, but it seems to hold enough pent-up energy to power a large neighborhood. Your bot eyes the creature warily.

The one about the chicken, the lion and the monkey? (1998)

> x monkey suit (@ Fancy dress shop)

A large, hairy monkey suit. Like a monkey, but with no insides.

The Problems Compound (2015)

> x monkey (@ Idiot Village)

He grins happily and vacantly, occasionally adjusting his suit or pawing in the ground.

The Relentless Adventures of Captain Speedo, Episode 16: Let them "heat" cake! (2001)

> x stuffed three-headed monkey (@ Cargo Bay)

That odd animal comes from somewhere deep in the Caribbeans, it would seem. Anyway, now it's dead, dried and stuffed.

A Scurvy of Wonders (2011)

> x chimpanzee (@ Money Cave)

Was it ever alive? And if so, isn't this better?

La Seine (2009)

> x small monkey (@ Avec le singe)

The monkey's arching his back and hissing as a brown dog yips and nips at it. Someone should teach that dog a lesson.
The monkey sits contentedly, looking up at the woman holding its leash every now and then.

Spitting Crumbs (2000)

> x monkey (@ Dead End)

Behind the monkey, you can see some sort of office.

Untold Riches (2015)

> x monkeys (@ Lighthouse)

The monkeys lounge in the sunshine or chase each other playfully through the plants around the lighthouse. They don't pay much attention to you.

When I Grow Up I Want To Be A Firetruck (1999)

> x monkey butler (@ Outside the Barrel Of Monkeys Funhouse)

This is a rather realistic-looking mannequin of a monkey butler, obviously here to welcome to you to the Barrel of Monkeys. A hidden mechanism makes him move his arm up and down in a very menacing fashion.

Whitefield Academy of Witchcraft (2014)

> x monkey (@ Office of Headmistress Hannigan)

You spotted this stern-looking toy monkey lying on the floor under Headmistress Hannigan's desk. It has snowy white fur and is wearing a serious expression. Something about it seems very familiar.

WOODEN CAT vs. ROBOT MONKEY (2001)

> x robot monkey (@ Workshop)

It's just like a conventional monkey, except slightly more robotic. And it prefers the habitat of the Channel Tunnel to any forest.

Zeppelin Adventure (2018)

> x gorilla (@ robot zoo)

[if in gorilla mode:] A metal gorilla, two metres tall and broad across the chest, with powerful looking pneumatic arms. As far as you can tell from its expression, it's a happy gorilla.
[if off:] A metal gorilla, two metres tall and broad across the chest, with powerful looking pneumatic arms. It is standing dead still.
[else:] A metal gorilla, two metres tall and broad across the chest, with powerful looking pneumatic arms. It moves in a confused manner, as though it's not used to the shape of its body.

Default response instances

You Are A Chef! (2000): monkey @ (random location).