Juhana Leinonen

Chapter Norbert

Norbert is a man. "[if the location of Norbert is the Dance floor and Norbert is beaten]Norbert is here, looking beaten and missing a lens from his glasses.[otherwise if the location of Norbert is the Dance floor]Norbert is standing here near the dance floor.[otherwise]Norbert is here, busy searching his missing lens.[end if]". The description is "Norbert is, to be blunt, a nerd. He's swaying there in his striped collared shirt, just too short pants and glasses with lenses thicker than his legs[if we have not talked to Norbert]. What he's doing here is anybody's guess[end if]."

Understand "nerd" and "geek" as Norbert.

Table of Norbert Conversation

quip

"'What are you doing here, Norbert?'[paragraph break]He corrects the position of his glasses. 'Well... uh... hello there! Say, I am in fact in the process of researching for my essay about this contemporary art of verbal derogatory assertions of one's contender's maternal parent. My theory is that it is, in fact, a thespian artform by...'[paragraph break]'Ok, that's all I wanted to know, thanks.'"

"'You're the brainiac, Norbert. Come up with a good quip for me.'[paragraph break]'All right then, let me see... [']Your mother is so obese that if she were a binomial, she would have three terms.['] Hee hee! *snort*'[paragraph break]'Uh... Ok. Thanks, Norbert.'"

"You don't have anything to say to Norbert right now."

The missing-lens-knowledge is a truth state that varies. The missing-lens-knowledge is false.

Table of Missing Lens Conversation

quip

"'What happened to your glasses?'[paragraph break]'Ah well... it was Vincent, I'm afraid. We had a little quarrel just now and looks like the other ocular of my eyewear was loosened and rolled away,' Norbert says.[make lens known]"

"'Where do you think the lens went?'[paragraph break]'Oh, it could be anywhere! Most likely it rolled under something.'"

To say make lens known:

change the missing-lens-knowledge to true.

The conversation table of Norbert is the table of Norbert Conversation.

After dancing with yourself when Norbert is in the location:

try dancing with Norbert.

Check dancing with Norbert:

ignore the block dancing with rule.

Report dancing with Norbert:

say "Norbert starts twitching and spasming with you like he's having some kind of seizure. You start to get worried but then he stops and smiles jovially. 'Dancing is fun, semicolon dash close parenthesis!'".

Check insulting Norbert:

ignore the block insulting rule.

Report insulting Norbert:

say "'[lame insult]!'

'El oh el! I see what you did there!'

If you can't taunt even Norbert, you're really in big trouble."

Instead of attacking Norbert:

say "Nah. He's getting pushed around enough already."

Instead of pushing Norbert:

try attacking Norbert.

Norbert is wearing the glasses. The glasses are plural-named. The glasses can be intact, broken or mended. The glasses are intact. The description is "[if intact]Norbert's glasses make his eyes look huge and bulgy.[otherwise if broken]Poor Norbert's missing the left lens from his glasses.[make lens known][otherwise]Norbert did a good job mending the glasses.[end if]".

Understand "norbert's" and "eyeglasses" as the glasses.

After examining Norbert when the glasses are broken:

try examining the glasses;

continue the action.

Table of Searching for the Lens Flavor Text

quip

"'I wish someone would toad that Vincent,' Norbert mutters."

"Norbert says: 'Norbert hollers, has anyone seen a missing eyepiece?'"

"'My vision feels a tad lopsided,' Norbert says and rubs his eyes."

"'This would be much easier if I could see better,' Norbert says. 'Quite a paradox, isn't it?'"

"'What would Spock do?' Norbert ponders."

"Norbert crawls on the floor trying to spot his missing lens. Some of the clubbers give him the evil eye when they bump into him."

"Norbert puts his hand above his eyes as to shield his eyes from the sun, which is somewhat unnecessary during the night in a dim club without windows."

Table of Norbert Searching Stuff Flavor Text

quip

"Norbert searches [the random lens-searchable thing in the location of Norbert] carefully but finds nothing."

"Norbert tries to look under [the random lens-searchable thing in the location of Norbert]. 'Ow, my back,' he complains."

A flavor text rule when the glasses are broken and the location is the location of Norbert and a random chance of 1 in 10 succeeds:

choose a random row in the Table of Norbert Searching Stuff Flavor Text;

say "[quip entry][line break]".

A flavor text rule when the glasses are broken and the location is the location of Norbert and a random chance of 1 in 7 succeeds:

choose a random row in the Table of Searching for the Lens Flavor Text;

say "[quip entry][line break]".

A flavor text rule when the glasses are broken and missing-lens-knowledge is true and the location of Norbert is a room and a random chance of 1 in 30 succeeds:

let X be up;

while the room X from the location of Norbert is not a room or the room X from the location of Norbert is the Stage or the room X from the location of Norbert is the Artist hangout:

let X be a random direction;

try Norbert trying going X.

When play begins:

if debugging is true:

now Norbert is in the Dance floor.

The hint list of Norbert is the table of Norbert hints.

Table of Norbert hints

hint

"Norbert has a tendency to get into troubles."

"He is a nerd, and nerds are often beaten by bullies."

"Have Vincent beat him up."

"When the fight is over, Norbert loses a lens from his glasses."

"The lens will be useful. You should find it."

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