Cycles in Interactive Fiction

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  The Ascent of the Gothic Tower (2014)

  > x bike (@ Hill)

  It must be a vintage piece, with curves like those.

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  Badland Machine (2003)

  > x bike (@ Right Side of the Tracks (just about))

  The motorcycle of God is all black curves and muscle, as one might expect. Even after hours of rutted desert roads, it has a gleam like a fistful of galaxies. It has the vocal chords of Tracy Chapman and the suspension of a cat, and it doesn't half go some. Its exhaust fumes smell of redemption.

• Ballymun Adventure (2006)

  > x exercise bike (@ Home School Liason Office)

  A freestanding exercise bike. The person using it can increase or descease the resistance to match their level of fitness.

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  A Beauty Cold and Austere (2017)

  > x bike (@ Neon-Lit Room)

  Built for speed, this laser bike pulses with the same dark blue neon light as the rest of the room.

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  A Christmas Game (2016)

  > x bike (@ A Butcher's Shop)

  A black framed delivery bike, with a smaller wheel at the front than at the back to make space for a large wicker basket, which is full of crates and parcels of greaseproof paper tied with string. You try to turn the peddles but they are very stiff.

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  Crocodracula: The Beginning (2020)

  > x bicycle (@ Buchanan High School)

  • [if locked:] Your bicycle is awkwardly attached to the bike rack with a chain and padlock.
  • [else:] Not a mountain bike, not a racing bike. A typical girl's bike (even if green isn't a typical girl's bike color).

• Escape from the Arboretum (2002)

  > x bicycles (@ kitchen of no. 44)

  The bicycles have been cunningly positioned in a tangled heap so as create an unmoveable hazard. It's not modern art or anything, just a heap of old bikes.

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  The House on Sycamore Lane (2019)

  > x dirt bike (@ Outside School)

  This is your trusty dirt bike. You've been through a lot of adventures with it. [if locked, add:] Its locked to the bike rack.

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  Letters From Home (2000)

  > x bicycle (@ Entrance hall)

  A sit-up-and-beg gentleman's bicycle, distinctly old-fashioned by today's standards. Despite that, it probably still works, and it's equipped with a pair of lamps and a saddlebag.

• Paparazzi (2004)

  > x bike (@ The Royal Castle)

  It's a red bike.

• Professor Frank (2011)

  > x bicycle (@ Junk Room)

  There is a black bag strapped to the bicycle.

• Default response instances

  • The Mysterious Case of the Acrobat and His Peers (2009): bicycle @ horse corral.

• Synonyms of other things instances

  • Lowell's Paradise (2008): bicycles ≡ various B items @ "B" Utility Shed.