Escapade!
An interactive fiction by Juhana Leinonen (2008) - the Inform 7 source text
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Instead of entering the air duct:
if the air duct is closed:
say "(first opening the grate)[command clarification break]";
silently try opening the air duct;
if the player is clothed:
say "You try to squeeze through the opening, but it's just a bit too small for you to fit through.";
otherwise:
if the player is not slippery:
say "Even without clothes the opening is just slightly too small to fit through.";
otherwise:
now everything carried by the player is the cell;
say "The motor oil covers your body like sweat on a hot summer night. You slither inside the air duct and pull yourself deeper and deeper inside. Darkness and cold aluminum encloses you from all sides as you twist and turn through the tunnels. Finally there's some light looming from ahead and you slide faster toward it.";
pause the cutscene;
say "Just before you reach the end of the duct a dark shape blocks the light and you're back in near darkness. You force yourself to a halt and stare the figure in the eyes.
'[if the tongue is numb]Ey, ih eh.ah.! Hah ah uh oih heah[otherwise]Hey, it's [the creature]! What are you doing here[end if]?' you ask but the creature doesn't reply. It opens its mouth, and the second, and the third. And it hisses.";
pause the cutscene;
say "You back away in record speed and drop down the grate back to the cell.
[c]I see you met my [key cousin Herbert]cousin Herbert[endkey cousin Herbert],' [the creature] assumes. [c]Now please put some clothes on!'";
mark the escape down as "sliding inside the air duct";
now the player is not slippery;
now cousin Herbert is conversable.
Test duct with "test oil/remove clothes/pour oil on yourself/open duct/enter duct".