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* {{Feelies}}: Your student ID card and a little rubber centipede. The game currently provides the page image.
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* OvenLogic: The microwave heats up food in this fashion. There are four power settings on the microwave, providing one internal-temperature unit to anything inside it - that is, 20 turns on warm is identical to 5 turns on high.
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* CopyProtection: Your user name and password.
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* CopyProtection: Your user name and password.password are found in the {{feelies}} (but not the manual.)
* DarknessEqualsDeath: There's one room-worth of grace when entering a dark room. Going further (or turning off the flashlight) causes a creature to grab the player from behind.
* DarknessEqualsDeath: There's one room-worth of grace when entering a dark room. Going further (or turning off the flashlight) causes a creature to grab the player from behind.
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* HaveANiceDeath: {{Averted|Trope}}, surprisingly for the usually [[WorldOfSnark snarky]] Infocom.
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* HaveANiceDeath: {{Averted|Trope}}, surprisingly for the There's fewer deaths compared to other usually [[WorldOfSnark snarky]] Infocom.Infocom games, but there's still a post-death comment about wondering if it was just a dream, but it's real because a creature is nibbling on one of the random body parts.
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* MoonLogicPuzzle: The maze at the bottom of the tunnels.
* MundaneUtility: The disembodied hand. And how.
* MustHaveCaffeine: Of the soda type: you get a two-liter bottle of Coke from the fridge and save it for when you're becoming very tired and about to fall asleep on the job.
* MundaneUtility: The disembodied hand. And how.
* MustHaveCaffeine: Of the soda type: you get a two-liter bottle of Coke from the fridge and save it for when you're becoming very tired and about to fall asleep on the job.
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* MoonLogicPuzzle: The maze at TheMaze: Past the bottom muddy tunnel, there's a series of Wet Tunnels. They're homogeneous with no room description, have invisible walls, and are asymmetric. It's a total of 12 rooms, although one object will guide you to the tunnels.
destination (but not the way out).
* MundaneUtility: The disembodiedhand. And how.
hand is used to scare someone.
* MustHaveCaffeine: Of the soda type: you get a two-liter bottle of Coke from the fridge and save it for when you're becoming very tired and about to fall asleep on the job.
* MundaneUtility: The disembodied
* MustHaveCaffeine: Of the soda type: you get a two-liter bottle of Coke from the fridge and save it for when you're becoming very tired and about to fall asleep on the job.
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* UnwinnableByDesign: Generally falls under Tough on Zarf's scale.
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* UnwinnableByDesign: Generally The game falls under Tough on Zarf's scale.scale. The first instance is overcooking food in the microwave, which is needed for the master key.
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* NoNameGiven: None of the characters have names, not even the FeaturelessProtagonist.
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* NoNameGiven: None of the in-game characters have names, not even the FeaturelessProtagonist.FeaturelessProtagonist. The {{feelies}} included name a few partners that you work with.
* PressXToDie: "Die", which implies the player character committed suicide after a disturbing scene but doesn't elaborate.
* PressXToDie: "Die", which implies the player character committed suicide after a disturbing scene but doesn't elaborate.
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* MundaneUtility: The disembodied hand. And how.
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* {{Feelies}}: Your student ID card and a little rubber centipede.
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* {{Feelies}}: Your student ID card and a little rubber centipede. The game currently provides the page image.
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* YouCantGetYeFlask: There are quite a few examples in the game, like when you want to heat up the Chinese food for the hacker to eat ("set microwave to 5 minutes", "set timer to 5 minutes", "set microwave to 60 seconds", "turn on microwave", "program microwave", etc. don't work; the solution would be to "press 5", "press 0" x2, "press hi", and finally "press start"); or when you want to put the ladder down from the top of the dome (not "drop ladder to floor below", not "put ladder on floor", etc., but "lower the ladder").
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* YouCantGetYeFlask: There are quite a few examples in the game, like when you want to heat up the Chinese food for the hacker to eat ("set microwave to 5 minutes", "set timer to 5 minutes", "set microwave to 60 seconds", "turn on microwave", "program microwave", etc. don't work; the solution would be to "press 5", "press 0" x2, "press hi", and finally "press start"); or when you want to put the ladder down from the top of the dome (not "drop ladder to floor below", not "put ladder on floor", etc., but "lower the ladder").ladder").
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:The Professor is attempting to summon a dark creature for use in [[HumanSacrifice your being sacrificed for some]] "Elixir of Life"; but if you play the cards right and exit the pentagram, then he'll end up getting sacrificed by the very dark creature he has summoned.]]
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* ShownTheirWork: The G.U.E. tech is based on the M.I.T. Institute (the place where Dave Lebling and his team were working from the 1970s to the 1980s) and its real-life experiences and rooms inside and outside. More info can be found [[http://www.filfre.net/2015/10/mit-and-gue-or-the-annotated-lurking-horror/ here]].
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* MustHaveCaffeine: Of the soda type: you get a two-liter bottle of Coke from the fridge and save it for when you're becoming very tired and about to fall asleep on the job.
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* NoNameGiven: None of the characters have names, not even the FeaturelessProtagonist.
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* HaveANiceDeath: [[AvertedTrope Averted]], surprisingly for the usually [[WorldOfSnark snarky]] Infocom.
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* HaveANiceDeath: [[AvertedTrope Averted]], {{Averted|Trope}}, surprisingly for the usually [[WorldOfSnark snarky]] Infocom.
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* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: The final monster you face is described in these terms.
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''The Lurking Horror'' is one of Infocom's easier [[InteractiveFiction text adventures]], but has some very creative puzzles and great writing and atmosphere. Definitely NeedsMoreLove.
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''The Lurking Horror'' is one of Infocom's easier [[InteractiveFiction text adventures]], but has some very creative puzzles and great writing and atmosphere. Definitely NeedsMoreLove.
atmosphere.
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{{Infocom}}'s 1987 entry into the horror genre opens in the computer lab at G.U.E. Tech. You've braved a snowstorm to finish an important assignment, but find your work interrupted by strange nightmares. When your paper vanishes from the server you find yourself exploring the campus for answers.
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* MadScientist: [[spoiler: If you consider alchemy a science.]]
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{{Infocom}}'s 1987 entry into the horror genre opens in the computer lab at G.U.E. Tech. You've braved a snowstorm to finish an important assignment, but find your work interrupted by strange nightmares. When your paper vanishes from the server you find yourself exploring the campus for answers.
''The Lurking Horror'' is one of Infocom's easier [[InteractiveFiction text adventures]], but has some very creative puzzles and great writing and atmosphere. Definitely NeedsMoreLove.
!!This game contains examples of:
* ClosedCircle: You're forced to spend the night in the computer lab by a blizzard.
* CopyProtection: Your user name and password.
* {{Expy}}: G.U.E. Tech for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
* {{Feelies}}: Your student ID card and a little rubber centipede.
* HaveANiceDeath: [[AvertedTrope Averted]], surprisingly for the usually [[WorldOfSnark snarky]] Infocom.
* LovecraftLite: The monsters are terrifying, but for all the Lovecraftian trappings it's more general horror than a CosmicHorrorStory.
* MoonLogicPuzzle: The maze at the bottom of the tunnels.
* MundaneUtility: The disembodied hand. And how.
* NightmareSequence / OrWasItADream
* SummoningRitual
* TimeMarchesOn: Much of the premise relies on 1980s computer networking technology, enough so that at times the game feels like a PeriodPiece.
* UnwinnableByDesign: Generally falls under Tough on Zarf's scale.
''The Lurking Horror'' is one of Infocom's easier [[InteractiveFiction text adventures]], but has some very creative puzzles and great writing and atmosphere. Definitely NeedsMoreLove.
!!This game contains examples of:
* ClosedCircle: You're forced to spend the night in the computer lab by a blizzard.
* CopyProtection: Your user name and password.
* {{Expy}}: G.U.E. Tech for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
* {{Feelies}}: Your student ID card and a little rubber centipede.
* HaveANiceDeath: [[AvertedTrope Averted]], surprisingly for the usually [[WorldOfSnark snarky]] Infocom.
* LovecraftLite: The monsters are terrifying, but for all the Lovecraftian trappings it's more general horror than a CosmicHorrorStory.
* MoonLogicPuzzle: The maze at the bottom of the tunnels.
* MundaneUtility: The disembodied hand. And how.
* NightmareSequence / OrWasItADream
* SummoningRitual
* TimeMarchesOn: Much of the premise relies on 1980s computer networking technology, enough so that at times the game feels like a PeriodPiece.
* UnwinnableByDesign: Generally falls under Tough on Zarf's scale.
