Pens in Interactive Fiction

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

  > x pen (@ Temple of Hell's Cheesecake)

  The top of this seemingly ordinary biro works as a microphone, the nib as a speaker. It enables field agents to communicate with the base. It will not work if you're outside a specific radius, though.

• Aunt Nancy's House (1997)

  > x pens (@ Attic)

  A number of pens are contained in the mug.

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  > x pen (@ Attic)

  A blue pen.

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  Balances (1994)

  > x burin (@ Ramshackle Hut)

  This is a magical burin, used for inscribing objects with words or runes of magical import. Such a burin also gives you the ability to write spell scrolls.

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  The First Snows of Winter (2013)

  > x pen (@ Sorceror's Guild)

  This slightly-used pen is well-made and still in good condition.

• Frobozz Magic Support (1996)

  > x burin (@ Inside the White Cube)

  This burin looks much every other burin you've seen, except for the small wings protruding from its pen-like body, and the tiny glowing eyes on its nib.

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  Igor's Quest (2020)

  > x pen (@ Stationery Store)

  For writing.

• Last Day of Summer (2011)

  > x pen (@ Garden House)

  A quill pen made from a goose feather.

• Default response instances

  • Bloodless on the Orient Express (2011): silver pen @ Classy Compartment.