Towels in Interactive Fiction

• Another Goddamn Escape the Locked Room Game (2006)

  > x towel (@ Bathroom)

  It's a worn bath-towel, which is pink with little blue flowers. Now you know where it is.

• Aunt Nancy's House (1997)

  > x towels (@ Bathroom)

  Some towels are hanging from the rack.

• Baking with Lizzie (2017)

  > x towel (@ Kitchen)

  A fluffy green hand towel.

• Biscuit (2001)

  > x bathtowel (@ landing)

  A large green bath towel.

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  > x hand towel (@ landing)

  A green hand towel.

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  > x face towel (@ landing)

  A small green face towel.

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  > x bathtowel (@ bathroom)

  A large striped bath towel.

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  > x hand towel (@ bathroom)

  A striped hand towel.

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  > x face towel (@ bathroom)

  A small striped face towel.

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  Foreign Soil (2020)

  > x towel (@ Undefinable blurry brown)

  • [1st time:] With both hands you press the thing into your face, against your nose and the thing exudes a familiar smell. It smells good, it smells fresh, it smells fresh ... fresh ... fresh laundry! It is a terry towel.
  • [else:] A large, fresh smelling terry towel.

• Interface (2009)

  > x towel (@ Hall Bathroom)

  • A hitchhikers best friend!
  • The towel is still damp from cleaning up that dangerous water pool.

• The Island (2013)

  > x towel (@ Bedroom)

  A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to- hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough. More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

• The Parallax Moon Bar Conspiracy (2001)

  > x towel (@ Moon Bar)

  Just a slightly manky tea-towel.

• Synonyms of other things instances

  • Lydia's Heart (2007): towels ≡ bathroom fixtures @ Bathroom (of any cabin).