Wires in Interactive Fiction

• 2604 (2001)

  > x cord (@ Maintenance Closet ((eastern)))

  It's about sixty feet long, and all coiled up.

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  Arborea (2022)

  > x cables (@ Beneath the Bulldozer)

  • There's an untidy tangle of them here, humming with electricity.
  • There's an untidy tangle of them here.
  • There's an untidy tangle of them here, some of which appear to have been crudely chopped with an axe (I wonder who did that).

• Chronicle Play Torn (2004)

  > x wire key (@ Vault of keys)

  It is a thin iron wire, religiously bent to a silhouette of an antique key.

• The Damsel and the Dragon (2000)

  > x cord (@ Library)

  A power cord has been plugged into the back of the computer, and the other end into the nearest wall socket.

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  Dr Horror's House of Terror (2021)

  > x thick cable (@ The Evil Machinery of Dr Von Hummels)

  The thick cable is attached to the handle and disappears into the floor.

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  > x wires (@ The Evil Machinery of Dr Von Hummels)

  The wiring coils in and out of the valves and machine.

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  > x cord (@ Studio Workshop)

  It looks like electric cabling. On both ends of the long piece of cord is some sort of metal clip. You imagine that you could attach the cord to something. If you could find something to attach it to.

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  > x wires (@ Production Area)

  The tangle of multi-colored wires is draped all over the floor and up the walls, attached to all the bits of film making stuff in the room

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  Dr. Dumont's Wild P.A.R.T.I. (1999)

  > x wires (@ The Lab)

  They're just two coily wires.

• Escape from Ice Station Hippo (2012)

  > x cord (@ Main Dome)

  The power cord runs from the radio to the wall, but with the main power out it doesn't supply any electricity to the radio.

• FORK: The Great Underground Dining Room (2007)

  > x cable (@ Sewer Junction)

  It's the sort of flexible line that seems to be growing off the occasional worker.

• Friar Bacon's Secret (2000)

  > x cord (@ Secret Passage)

  It goes from the lamp to the ceiling, which is plain enough. The odd thing is, it keeps on going across the ceiling into the corner, then down the wall and through the floor. [if cut, add:] Just above the bookcase, it's slashed in two. Looking at the ends, you see bundles of tiny wires.

• Glossary (2002)

  > x cord (@ Complex Hub)

  Looks like a power cord.

• Default response instances

  • Curses (1993): green wire @ Ruined Castle Cafe. NOTE: Ditto for the red, blue, and black wires.

• Synonyms of other things instances

  • Alcohol solves everything (2007): wires ≡ light @ Toilet.
  • Amusement Park (2004): wire ≡ canoe @ Cavern.