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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/meteor_sherbet.png]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:The cover, and the opening.]]
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4	''The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet'' is a 1996 InteractiveFiction game by Creator/GrahamNelson (under the PenName Angela M. Horns).
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6	You play as an ambassador visiting the Northlands as the guest of the Empress. You start the game trapped on a terribly boring elephant ride with your chatterbox tour guide, Lady Amilia, and you're desperate to get away.
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8	The setting is based on the ''VideoGame/{{Zork}}'' universe.
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10	You can play it [[https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=273o81yvg64m4pkz here.]]
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13	!!Contains examples of:
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15	* {{Animorphism}}: [[spoiler:The Ambassador is transformed from a human to a wolfhound at the climax of the game.]]
16	* BeneathTheEarth: The game involves discovering the remnants of the underground Old Empire.
17	* BizarreBeverageUse: The glass of sherbet you receive in the beginning of the game is used to [[spoiler:wake up the sleepy elephant by pouring it on his head]].
18	* TheCameo: Casting 'azzev' in the treehouse shows that Creator/JRRTolkien was a visitor there at some point in the past.
19	* TheDitz: Asking Amilia about most things will produce the response: "What Amilia doesn't know would fill a whole game in itself." If you hand her the telescope, she'll look through the wrong end.
20	* {{Gotterdammerung}}: Magic has been gone for a long time... but it's been rediscovered.
21	* {{Epigraph}}: The story begins by quoting [[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken the final paragraph]] of "The Road Not Taken" by Creator/RobertFrost.
22	* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Amilia is seeking power, and will dispose of you if you get in her way.]]
23	* ForcedTransformation: [[spoiler:The Ambassador is forcibly transformed into a wolfhound at the climax of the game, and must find a way to transform back.]]
24	* HintSystem: An Creator/{{Infocom}}-style one that gives you progressively bigger bits of information on a subject.
25	* MacGuffinTitle: The meteor/stone is a PlotDevice that various people are interested in.
26	* MultipleEndings: There are four possible endings, depending on what you manage to do about Clotspinner and/or the meteor.
27	* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler:Amilia acts ditzy but is actually sharp-minded.]]
28	* PhilosophersStone: The titular "Stone" is the Philosopher's Stone. In its presence, pure elements can be transmuted into other elements.
29	* SignificantAnagram: Not in the game itself, but "Angela M. Horns" is an anagram of Graham Nelson.
30	* SpellBook: You use a spell book to perform magic by learning spells from its pages. Simply reading a copy of a spell isn't enough -- the magic of the spell book itself is vital to the learning process.
31	* {{Transmutation}}: The "ruther" spell can transform pure chemical elements into other elements.

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