Tombstones in Interactive Fiction

Beyond the Tesseract (1983)

> x tombstone (@ Sphere-Land)

The epitaph reads: The Eternal Soul

Brain Guzzlers from Beyond! (2015)

> x tombstone (@ The Haunted Porch)

It's made out of some kind of yellow-green crystalline substance that's glowing faintly. You've never seen a gem that looks quite like it. The rough, primal surface has been marred with a crude carving reading "Your Name Here? MWA HA HA"

The Cenric Family Curse (2013)

> x tombstones (@ Cemetery)

[1st time:] Kneeling down at the tomb stone of one of your family, you also notice a bone half sticking out of the dirt and you take it.
[else:] It's a tombstone of one of your family's lineage.

Chronicle Play Torn (2004)

> x gravestones (@ Graveyard)

A vast horde of tombstones, plain granite slabs watching the town in silence. Most of them is unmarked, and the few carvings you see are written in a language certainly long extinct.

Cragne Manor (2018)

> x gravestone (@ The Churchyard)

Simple, rough hewn marble markers, overgrown with weeds and stained by untold generations of blackened moss. The wind and weather have made sure that you can't make out any names or dates on any of these tombstones.

> x tombstones (@ Cragne Family Plot)

Tombstones jostle for space, scattered apparently at random. You imagine hasty burials, bodies consigned quickly and unceremoniously to the Vermont sod. The oldest are bleached and pitted, half-collapsed into the foul earth. Near the edges of the yard, several graves have collapsed, leaving dark pits rapidly filling with rain.

> x teetering headstone (@ Cragne Family Plot)

A perfectly round face gawps up at you, its eyes and mouth neatly drilled out. Deep gashes score the granite, the name obliterated. You wonder how long it took. You wonder how much hate it took.

Just readable beneath a carpet of lichen is the inscription: "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat-" Here the inscription has been pulverized. A line below it continues: "-till thou return unto the ground; for out of it was thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto-" The inscription crumbles away. An entire line has been scraped off.

The quotation's almost familiar, but there's something off-putting about the missing words. They draw the eye like wounds.

> x collapsed headstone (@ Cragne Family Plot)

The stone is pitted, perhaps acid-eaten. A litter of dead insects and blackened leaves leaks from every cranny. Almost unreadable is the inscription "Zadie Cragne, 1829."

One date. You search in vain for a second, then glance round at the jostling tombstones and wonder how many infants lie beneath.

> x blank headstone (@ Cragne Family Plot)

It's fresher than the others, not yet crusted with lichen. Search as you might, you can't find a name.

Darkiss! Wrath of the Vampire - Chapter 2: Journey to Hell (2016)

> x gravestone (@ Clearing of Disquiet)

A message is written on the gravestone: "Here lies the one who was always hungry and so he remains".

The Day I came back (2014)

> x Vask's gravestone (@ Cemetary)

It reads "Vonathan Vask - good riddance!" It looks rather light, too.

> x parser gravestone (@ Cemetary)

It reads "1975-2007".

Dr Horror's House of Terror (2021)

> x gravestones (@ The Cemetery of St. Louise de Marillac)

The gravestones, made impressively from painted modelling foam are mainly ornate crosses,.

Dude, Where's My Scapula? (2016)

> x tombstone (@ Your Grave)

Written in your own blocky script is "ALEX". Whatever was originally written here has long since faded away. Good riddance! A skeleton has no business trying to reconnect to the world of the living. Whoever you were before you died is a completely different person than who you are now. The memory of that person can rest in peace, but meanwhile, you've got things to do.

Escape from the Arboretum (2002)

> x gravestone (@ outside a church)

The gravestone is jolly old and weather-worn, you can barely make out the epitaph.

Fairyland (2019)

> x gravestones (@ The 'Dead' Centre of Town)

They all carry the names of those who sadly passed on. One reads "In memory of some poor farmer whose cow trampled him to death," another reads "We will miss you up there in Heaven." You cry at the sight of these gravestones, even though you didn't know who the people were.

Gaucho (2012)

> x gravestones (@ Main Street - West)

It might be a cemetery to the west. You can try going there.

> x gravestones (@ Cemetery)

You amble down the first row of large solid gravestones - these must be the real luminaries of the town. The first one is illegible, but the next four are clear as day:
Here lies Pastor Nathaniel Karp: Who cracked every code and led us to the promised land
Here lies Sheriff Mark Monin: Mad Dog and Protector, Who never slept with-out one hand on his keys
Here lies Sanford "Sneaky" Sol: Who lived life like a lottery
Here lies General Jebbidiah Alden: Life, happiness and a whiskey bottle named Clementine
The second row of gravestones has suffered much more than the first, and only fragments of the inscriptions remain visible:
Here Lies Hida Mann, weren't near as good with a gun as he was with butter.
A bas-relief was carved into this headstone, looks like a penguin? Or a puffin? The only intact words read: -drich
The Sarge was always in charge, rest well amigo!
Here lies High Ridin' Robino, how an Italian ended up in Texas he never did say.
Beyond the second row, the gravestones have disintegrated into almost nothing.

Goodbye Doggy World (1997)

> x tombstones (@ north end of the graveyard)

There are three tombstones here. Each one is carved out of the finest quality granite, even though they're a bit old and worn. One depicts a squirrel, one a horse, and the third... a doggy!

Happy Ever After (2000)

> x tombstones (@ An overgreen Cemetery)

You bow your head as a gesture of respect when you look at the tombostones, altough they are too moss covered to read.

The House of Mystery (2018)

> x tombstone (@ Cemetery)

[originally:] 'You're next!' says one of the many tombstones. The one to your left looks loose and can easily be moved.
[if zombies here:] 'See? Too ya you were next?'
[else:] 'I knew I should have called a vampire instead.'

The Lost Islands of Alabaz (2011)

> x gravestones (@ Necropolis; Musician's Quarter)

There are gravestones poking up everywhere, poking up from every patch of bare ground. They come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are old and crumbled, some are still new enough to read the names chiseled on them.

The Quest of the Golden Banana (2004)

> x tombstones (@ Graveyard)

One in particular catches your eye, perhaps because of its curious inscription:

O 1 + + +
8 R 2 + +
+ 7 D 3 +
+ + 6 E 4
+ + + 5 R

Rings for Bony Fingers (1992)

> exam tombstone (@ NW Corner of Graveyard)

It reads, "My beloved husband Joseph. Rest in Peace."

> exam marker (@ SW Corner of Graveyard)

A name is written on the marker. It is your name!

> exam grave (@ SE Corner of Graveyard)

The faint carving can barely be read: "Unknown Patriot".

The Voodoo You Do 2 (2014)

> x gravestones (@ Graves Near The Tree)

They are all too faded to read now. These graves, including yours, seem very, very old.