Fazuul is an "interactive fiction" game with a twist - where you are part of a live-action book, but so are others! A text-adventure on a distant world where the only limit is your own imagination.
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Thinking of taking a vacation?
Well, you were, and then something happened. As a seasoned intergalactic traveler, you are accustomed to the occasional hyperspace grid interlock, or matter-transmitter hiccup.
But this is something else entirely! You were just beaming down to FAZUUL, playground pleasure planet of the galactic elite, when all of a sudden the vortex cannonballed, the goonplasm deflated, and the freplishers skrank out. You are left standing on the tarmac in front of a large, deserted alien city.
The welcoming committee is absent. The vacationland spa hosts and hostesses have all mysteriously disappeared. You have reached FAZUUL, all right, but your vacation is over, and your nightmare has just begun.
As you gaze around in dismay, you may be wondering "What in the Nine Moons of Jupiter is this??". This is a multi-user online adventure game. It is something along the lines of Zork, Deadline, and so on, but with a key difference: many people can play at once, and they are all in the SAME simulated universe. The program that generates this universe is like an automated dungeon master in "Dungeons and Dragons"... one that plays no favorites, makes no mistakes, and has the capacity to track a large number of individuals or groups completely independently of one another.
FAZUUL was originally a harsh, forbidding world of intense dry heat and endless rolling sand dunes. It had been inhabited, millions of years earlier, by a strange alien civilization of which little is known. The aliens all died out long ago of mysterious biological causes, leaving their technology behind.
Then humans came along, and, through the miracles of kwish-age engineering, FAZUUL was transformed into a beautiful leisure paradise, fully equipped with all the essentials of the up-to-date resort planet.
Due to a quantum fluctuation of the void, however, the entire tourist mass transit system on FAZUUL has been incapacitated. Vacationers can beam in but they can't beam back out!
Or can they? As a marooned vacationer on this paradise planet, you and your fellow marooned vacationers may be able to figure out the alien technology lying around, pool your resources and knowledge, and find a way to escape.
Or, if you like, you can spend your time playing the various Galactic games that have been installed as part of the resort's facilities, such as Foon-Ball and Umflungoo. Or, you may just explore around, talk with other players, fight with them, whatever you like!
When you see the ">" prompt, feel free to enter commands to your player to move around (North, South, East, or West), pick up objects that you see, talk to the other marooned vacationers in your vicinity (with the "say" command), and so on. Your terminal will be your eyes and ears, and will take whatever actions you tell it to (within reason) in your name. Type "help" at any time if you need help.
Well, you were, and then something happened. As a seasoned intergalactic traveler, you are accustomed to the occasional hyperspace grid interlock, or matter-transmitter hiccup.
But this is something else entirely! You were just beaming down to FAZUUL, playground pleasure planet of the galactic elite, when all of a sudden the vortex cannonballed, the goonplasm deflated, and the freplishers skrank out. You are left standing on the tarmac in front of a large, deserted alien city.
The welcoming committee is absent. The vacationland spa hosts and hostesses have all mysteriously disappeared. You have reached FAZUUL, all right, but your vacation is over, and your nightmare has just begun.
As you gaze around in dismay, you may be wondering "What in the Nine Moons of Jupiter is this??". This is a multi-user online adventure game. It is something along the lines of Zork, Deadline, and so on, but with a key difference: many people can play at once, and they are all in the SAME simulated universe. The program that generates this universe is like an automated dungeon master in "Dungeons and Dragons"... one that plays no favorites, makes no mistakes, and has the capacity to track a large number of individuals or groups completely independently of one another.
FAZUUL was originally a harsh, forbidding world of intense dry heat and endless rolling sand dunes. It had been inhabited, millions of years earlier, by a strange alien civilization of which little is known. The aliens all died out long ago of mysterious biological causes, leaving their technology behind.
Then humans came along, and, through the miracles of kwish-age engineering, FAZUUL was transformed into a beautiful leisure paradise, fully equipped with all the essentials of the up-to-date resort planet.
Due to a quantum fluctuation of the void, however, the entire tourist mass transit system on FAZUUL has been incapacitated. Vacationers can beam in but they can't beam back out!
Or can they? As a marooned vacationer on this paradise planet, you and your fellow marooned vacationers may be able to figure out the alien technology lying around, pool your resources and knowledge, and find a way to escape.
Or, if you like, you can spend your time playing the various Galactic games that have been installed as part of the resort's facilities, such as Foon-Ball and Umflungoo. Or, you may just explore around, talk with other players, fight with them, whatever you like!
When you see the ">" prompt, feel free to enter commands to your player to move around (North, South, East, or West), pick up objects that you see, talk to the other marooned vacationers in your vicinity (with the "say" command), and so on. Your terminal will be your eyes and ears, and will take whatever actions you tell it to (within reason) in your name. Type "help" at any time if you need help.
You have arrived on FAZUUL, a lush pleasure planet discovered years ago
by a number of shipwrecked space captains. At the time of its
discovery, FAZUUL was a harsh, forbidding world of intense dry heat and
endless rolling sand dunes. Now, however, through the miracles of
kwish-age engineering, FAZUUL has been transformed into a beautiful
leisure paradise, fully equipped with all of the essentials of the
up-to-date resort planet.
Due to a quantum fluctuation of the void, however, the entire tourist mass transit system on FAZUUL has been incapacitated. Vacationers can beam in but they can't beam back out!
Or can they? As a marooned vacationer on this paradise planet, you and your fellow marooned vacationers may be able to figure out the alien technology lying around, pool your resources and knowledge, and find a way to escape. Or, if you like, you can spend your time playing the various Galactic games that have been installed as part of the resort's facilities, such as Foon-Ball and Umflungoo. Or, you are free to just explore around, talk with other players, fight with them, or whatever you like!
Due to a quantum fluctuation of the void, however, the entire tourist mass transit system on FAZUUL has been incapacitated. Vacationers can beam in but they can't beam back out!
Or can they? As a marooned vacationer on this paradise planet, you and your fellow marooned vacationers may be able to figure out the alien technology lying around, pool your resources and knowledge, and find a way to escape. Or, if you like, you can spend your time playing the various Galactic games that have been installed as part of the resort's facilities, such as Foon-Ball and Umflungoo. Or, you are free to just explore around, talk with other players, fight with them, or whatever you like!
You can talk to other players in your immediate vicinity by typing the
word "say", followed by whatever it is you want to say to them. If you
want your voice to carry further, use "shout" or "yell". Everyone
within hearing distance will hear you.
If you want to communicate privately with another player in your immediate area, you can type "whisper to", followed by your
confidential message -- other players nearby will only know that you
have whispered something, not what it is you whispered.
If you want to communicate privately with another player in your immediate area, you can type "whisper to
You move around by telling FAZUUL the direction in which you want to
move: north, south, east, or west. Sometimes, depending on the
situation, other moves will also make sense. FAZUUL keeps track of the
last five places you have visited, and gives you the full description of
the place only if it is not one of these last five. You may tell FAZUUL
to always give you short place-descriptions by typing "brief" (this may
be undone by typing "nonbrief").
You can trade crackers, goods, services, and information with other
players any time you like, in any way you like. Typing "give
to " will cause the item to be transferred to
the player you specify, assuming that (a) you possessed it in the first
place, and (b) the specified player is in your immediate area. The item
can be either a device you are holding, or a count of crackers (for
example, "GIVE 5 CRACKERS TO BEELZEBUB"). The terms and conditions of
any sale are entirely yours to work out with your co-conspirator.
When you exit the game, your player will be placed
into "hypospatial stasis," which means that you will vanish from the
FAZUUL universe but that your complete status will be saved, awaiting
your return to the game. Any objects you are holding go into hypospatial
stasis with you, so that you can pick up playing again right where you
left off.
If you are lost in the jungle or something and merely wish to restart the game afresh, type "restart" for further information.
If you are lost in the jungle or something and merely wish to restart the game afresh, type "restart" for further information.
The original inhabitants of FAZUUL all perished thousands of years ago of
biological causes, leaving behind odd bits and pieces of incredibly
advanced technology. The technology takes the form of the various
objects with strange names that you find lying around here and there.
Since they are based on advanced alien technology, their various purposes
may not be apparent to you at first, but by experimenting around with
them you may find that some of them have amazing properties.
You can also assemble the objects together in various ways to make more complex and interesting devices (e.g. "ATTACH THE GWINGUS TO THE MONGOO"). These combined devices can then be further combined, and so on. A major portion of the information you will be trading with other players relates to which devices combine with which others, what they do when combined, how you activate them, the side effects they might have, and so on.
You can also assemble the objects together in various ways to make more complex and interesting devices (e.g. "ATTACH THE GWINGUS TO THE MONGOO"). These combined devices can then be further combined, and so on. A major portion of the information you will be trading with other players relates to which devices combine with which others, what they do when combined, how you activate them, the side effects they might have, and so on.
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