Thoughts in Interactive Fiction

• According to Cain (2022)

  > memories (@ Approaching the river)

  You’ve witnessed [number] of the sixteen available revelations: [list of revelations]

  You may RECALL these revelations by name.

  You’ve memorized the following alchemical compounds: [list of compounds]

  You’ve learned the following about the family members: [list of family info]

  MEMORIES is a command, not a thing in the game.

• Baggage (2021)

  > x belief (@ Road)

  Ah, yes, that is how the world works. It's not comforting to think this, but it is true, and it will do you no good to deny it.

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  > x memory (@ Road)

  This was the last time you were happy. How it tears at you, to think of all the people you have lost! You were young then. You thought you understood.

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  > x moments (@ Road)

  Now that you've held them in your hands, you can see what they are: they are memories. This one: a wedding, the traveller dancing in the crowd of guests, her face glowing. This one: a brightly-coloured bird, hopping from branch to branch, the traveller's eyes following it intently. This one: a finishing line, her chest breaking the ribbon before any of the other runners. There are others, all of them beautiful, but sadly faded. These are her joys, or they were.

  They strain at the edge of your sight, fluttering as if wishing to take flight, and then sinking. You have the strangest feeling that with a little effort, they could transform into something altogether different.

• Beyond the Tesseract (1983)

  > x idea (@ Twilight of Thought)

  The idea is very vague and not fully developed.

• Birth of Mind (2011)

  > x thought (@ Yggdrasil)

  Brilliant and sustaining.

  The memory @ Up the Ash Trunk, and the belief @ In the Heavens have identical descriptions.
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  further (2013)

  > x ruddy bell (@ Foggy Room)

  • A memory of a bell
  • A memory of Alice's bell

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  > x jaundiced penny (@ Alcove)

  • A memory of a penny
  • A memory of Alan's penny

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  > x cobalt ribbon (@ Oasis)

  • A memory of a ribbon
  • A memory of Linda's ribbon

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  > x olive envelope (@ crumbling Chimney)

  • A memory of an envelope
  • A memory of your acceptance letter

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  > x ashen robe (@ Grassland)

  • A memory of a robe
  • A memory of your robe