It has been suggested (by Sten Drescher) that phoning tech support can be a lot like playing one of the old text based RPGs,like Zork or advent. So this Sten suggested was what a call to Technical support might be like.
- You are in a quandary. Exits are Read Help, RTFM or Call Support.
call support
- You hear a ringing sound, then a tinny chime that was perhaps once music (centuries of
echoing within the chamber have rendered it barely recognisable).
- Time passes.
-
Eventually a disembodied voice intones a welcome from the aether and the voice of a squalid
Hobbit-like creature groans:
-
"Hello, Support"
say hello
- Support says
"hello"
give problem to support
- Support refuses, saying
"we don't support it"
attack support
- Support draws a vial of yellow bile-like fluid from a pouch and drinks it. Suddenly he
starts to grow into a menacing Narked Support. Narked Support says
"I'm afraid that wont do any good"
attack support
- There is no effect
help
- Try using your equipment
inv
- You have:
- A bottle of clues (empty), a broken modem, a piece of string. Attack support with modem
- Narked Support says
"That won't do any good, its broken"
use string
- Now you are being silly
use clues
- You don't have one of those
ask support for clues
- The Narked Support seems to shrink before your eyes. It seems he will help you.
- Support says
"I can help, this clue I tell, I'll say it once, so listen well: You must take the Clenched
Fist to the Modemwright."
say thank you
- Support bows, and disappears.