Vats in Interactive Fiction

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  Ailihphilia (2018)

  > x butene tub (@ Pro Corp)

  It smells pretty nice, so it's probably not a butyl-y tub. But it's been marked condemned, dangerously close to falling apart. It looks sturdy enough, but who knows what sort of reactions could occur with the flammable butene if the tub collapsed from a big chemical bang and fell to the dangerously sparky area below with special instruments and such? You can't just pour any old thing down!

  What sort of adventurer could ignore a warning like that? Especially in a game that's meant to be polite on the Zarfian cruelty scale, thus eliminating all risk and/or need to type UNDO if you mess up!

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  ASCII and the Argonauts (2003)

  > x vat (@ VINEYARD)

  IT'S FULL OF FINE *ROYAL WINE*

• Biscuit (2001)

  > x tub (@ kitchen)

  A large tub of ice-cream.

• Excelsior (2014)

  > x vat (@ Vat Room)

  It's a big wooden vat hanging from the ceiling. A rope connects it to the portcullis. A small square drain is set in the floor below the vat.

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  The Legend of Horse Girl (2022)

  > x vat (@ Wagon)

  A large vat bubbles with a thick, foul-smelling slurry.

• The Song of the Mockingbird (2021)

  > x tub (@ Inside the Stable)

  A tub of fresh drinking water sits in one corner of the stall.

• Default response instances

  • Fætt Tiw (2007): vat @ Hall of Horrors.

• Synonyms of other things instances

  • The Chinese Room (2007): vat ≡ exhibits @ Museum.