Garbage Collection
by Matt Weiner (2016)


action: %
response: explorers are too aimless--they don't know what to do with something that just gives you a bunch of stuff to take apart. So I decided to give them a nice linear directed version of the Garbage Explorer experience. Happy garbage-picking!--expl0rerfr34k

You pick up some garbage from the dump: A yellow film shimmers on a sharp metal fragment.

Examine another piece of garbage? (y/n)
action: You go to the north
response: You leave the dump.
action: Y.
response: A bent rubber strand.

Examine another piece of garbage? (y/n)
action: Y.
response: A piece of metal is screwed to a fragment of plastic.

Examine another piece of garbage? (y/n)
action: Y.
response: A smashed shard of plastic.

Examine another piece of garbage? (y/n)
action: Y.
response: A cracked shard of plastic is attached to a cracked fragment of metal.

Examine another piece of garbage? (y/n)
action: Y.
response: In the pits of a block of rock a fuchsia liquid gathers.

Examine another piece of garbage? (y/n)
action: Y.
response: A knotted strand of rubber is screwed to a sharp piece of metal.

Examine another piece of garbage? (y/n)
action: Y.
response: A smooth wooden panel is lodged in a chunk of earth.

Examine another piece of garbage? (y/n)
action: Y.
response: A sharp piece of wood is attached to a smashed fragment of plastic.

Examine another piece of garbage? (y/n)
action: Y.
response: Into a length of rope sinks a red slick.

Examine another piece of garbage? (y/n)
action: Y.
response: A fragment of rubber is tied to a cracked piece of plastic.

Examine another piece of garbage? (y/n)
action: Y.
response: A chartreuse ooze shines on a fragment of metal and wets a wooden fragment that it is screwed to.

Examine another piece of garbage? (y/n)
action: Y.
response: A thick mass of earth is wetted by a chartreuse liquid.

Examine another piece of garbage? (y/n)
action: Y.
response: A white slick drips down a string of rubber and wets a piece of rope that it is tied to.

Examine another piece of garbage? (y/n)
action: Y.
response: A fuchsia secretion beads up on a smashed piece of glass.

Examine another piece of garbage? (y/n)
action: You go to the north
response: You leave the dump.