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Lost Explained!
All of the characters in Lost are in Zork. The whole show is one giant text adventure game.
Think about it.
LOST> take gun
You take the gun.
LOST> n
You head north into the jungle, soon emerging into a small clearing. There is something gleaming under the dirt.
LOST> dig
What do you want to dig?
LOST> dig dirt
What do you want to dig the dirt with?
LOST> dig dirt with plane-scrap shovel
You dig in the dirt. Several sweaty minutes later, you reveal a steel hatch.
LOST> open hatch
The hatch cannot be opened from this side.
LOST> use dynamite
There is no dynamite here.
LOST> n
You are lost in the jungle in a maze of twisty little paths, all alike.
LOST> e
You are lost in the jungle in a maze of twisty little paths, all alike.
LOST> n
You are lost in the jungle in a maze of twisty little paths, all alike.
Locke is here.
Locke walks off to the west.
LOST> follow locke
You follow Locke.
You are lost in the jungle in a maze of twisty little paths, all alike.
Locke walks off to the north.
LOST> follow locke
You follow Locke.
You are lost in the jungle in a maze of twisty little paths, all alike.
Locke walks off to the north.
LOST> follow locke
You follow Locke.
You emerge from the jungle and see ahead of you a huge sailing ship overgrown with vines. There is a hole in its underside large enough for a person to walk through.
Locke is here.
Hurley is here.
Kate is here. Kate is HOT.
Arzt is here.
An open crate of sweating dynamite is here.
LOST> look kate
Kate is just standing there being HOT.
LOST> look crate
Inside the wooden crate you see many sticks of dynamite, encrusted with nitroglycerin, packed in straw.
Arzt says, "Do you know what happens to dynamite in tropical weather? It sweats nitroglycerin. Nitroglycerin is the most unstable chemical known to man."
Suddenly, Arzt explodes.
LOST> take arzt
The little pieces aren't big enough.
LOST> take dynamite
The crate is too big.
LOST> take stick
You take a stick of dynamite. It feels unstable.
LOST> i
You are carrying:
a plane-scrap shovel
a backpack
an empty water bottle
no tea
a small metal toy plane
a gun
some Arzt on your neck
an unstable stick of dynamite
LOST> give kate plane
"This is important to me, but I don't need it yet," Kate says, handing the plane back to you.
You take the small metal plane of importance to Kate.
LOST> l stick
The dynamite is getting very unstable. You'd better hurry.
Locke says, "I'm going back to the hatch."
Locke walks off to the west.
LOST> follow locke
You follow Locke back to the hatch.
LOST> drop dynamite
You drop the dynamite. It looks very unstable! You'd better run!
LOST> run
Which way?
LOST> run s
You run south.
You are on the beach.
Locke is here.
That dim bulb Shannon is here.
You hear a huge explosion from the north.
LOST> n
You head north into the jungle, soon emerging into a small clearing. There is a hatch here.
The hatch is open.
LOST> l hatch
You see a rusty, ancient ladder going down into the darkness. After several rungs, the ladder is broken, and the rest of the shaft goes down as far as you can see.
LOST> q
You can't quit.
LOST> die
I don't know the word "die".
LOST> kill self
What do you want to kill the self with?
LOST> kill self with gun
You raise the weapon to your head, close your eyes tightly, and begin to squeeze the trigger. Suddenly, Hurley jumps out of hiding and pulls the barrel away from your temple. "Dude, what are you doing?" he shouts.
LOST>
