First
by Shannon Prickett (2013)
Genres: Slice of life

As brief introductions go, it's among the briefest. Contains only a single point.

action: %
response: The cucumbers are what you're thinking of. A lot seems to have happened just now and the details aren't set yet but you think cucumbers are involved.

You're suspended from the seat belt, which probably saved your life. Before you, a display of carelessly pressed flowers seen through a tangled network of fissured glass. There is an occasional sound of glass parting or metal yielding but the largest threat seems to be your inversion. To one side, a still inflated airbag obscures the driver. On the other side, outside the car, there's a large metal thing and a small furry thing. Somewhere, you believe there are cucumbers.

A comfortingly strong seatbelt holds you where you are.

You can also see a cigarette lighter here.
action: You look at lighter
response: Part of the car's standard equipment, it pushes in to heat and pops out when it's reached the ignition point of cigarettes.
action: About yourself
response: As good-looking as ever.
action: You open the seatbelt
response: (first unlocking the seatbelt)
You must have hit your head, you're not making sense.
action: You look at the seatbelt
response: Some kind of incredibly strong cloth with a buckle.
action: You press the buckle
response: Nothing obvious happens.
action: You examine furry
response: Slightly smaller than a person and covered with thick fur.
action: You look at the driver
response: Someone close to you, you remember that much.
action: You press the lighter
response: You manage to flail a limb at it and depress the lighter.
action: You examine the airbag
response: A big white puffy thing fills the left side of your vision. There's a sharp smell, as if someone had swept up all the dust from a library and packed it in to a pipe and smoked it.
action: You examine lighter
response: Part of the car's standard equipment, it's glowing with a hot heat.
action: You take lighter
response: With a boastful little POP, the lighter ejects. Fate is with you, and you snare it in your hand.
action: You burn seatbelt
response: *** Run-time problem P10: Since the seatbelt is not allowed the property "temperature", it is against the rules to try to use it.

<illegal heat> lighter does you no good.
action: Burn airbag
response: This dangerous act would achieve little.
action: You wait awhile
response: Time passes.
action: Look
response: (the cigarette lighter)
Part of the car's standard equipment, it's glowing with a hot heat.
action: You look
response: You're suspended from the seat belt, which probably saved your life. Before you, a display of carelessly pressed flowers seen through a tangled network of fissured glass. There is an occasional sound of glass parting or metal yielding but the largest threat seems to be your inversion. To one side, a still inflated airbag obscures the driver. On the other side, outside the car, there's a large metal thing and a small furry thing. Somewhere, you believe there are cucumbers.

A comfortingly strong seatbelt holds you where you are.

With a boastful little POP, the lighter ejects. Fate is with you, and you snare it in your hand.
action: You burn seatbelt
response: The material yields to the heat, stretching and finally giving out entirely. You are freed. The lighter rolls from your fingers and is lost.

Innumerable small shards of glass sparkle on the floor which under normal conditions would be the ceiling. You can escape from here. From this angle you can see there's a boxy metal car and a much smaller furry thing near by.
action: Exit
response: There's an extraordinary distortion to the grill of the car, as if it were fondant someone leaned against. If you didn't cross the median, you must be east of the highway, meaning the other end of the car is west of here.
action: You examine the car
response: A boxy vehicle, before it encountered a tree. Now its sides have been skewed and its contents scattered around it.
action: You go west
response: This is where the trunk is , which you think some people call a boot but not like foot boot, more like a beer boot. Maybe you did hit your head. About the only important thing to know is that it currently opens down instead of up, as the car is lying on its roof.
action: You open the trunk
response: You open the trunk, revealing a paper grocery bag.
action: You take the bag
response: Oh, there they are.
action: You look in the bag
response: In the paper grocery bag are six cucumbers.
action: Go east
response: There's an extraordinary distortion to the grill of the car, as if it were fondant someone leaned against. If you didn't cross the median, you must be east of the highway, meaning the other end of the car is west of here.
action: You examine furry
response: Slightly smaller than a person and covered with thick fur.
action: You eat cucumber
response: (first taking the cucumber)
You eat the cucumber. Not bad.
action: Inventory
response: You are carrying:
a paper grocery bag
six cucumbers
action: You drop the driver
response: The driver is already here.
action: You take the driver
response: That's hardly portable.
action: You give the cucumber to the driver
response: You can only do that to something animate.
action: Go east
response: There's an extraordinary distortion to the grill of the car, as if it were fondant someone leaned against. If you didn't cross the median, you must be east of the highway, meaning the other end of the car is west of here.
action: Go inside
response: Innumerable small shards of glass sparkle on the floor which under normal conditions would be the ceiling. You can escape from here. From this angle you can see there's a boxy metal car and a much smaller furry thing near by.
action: You wear furry
response: (first taking the furry)
That's hardly portable.
action: You get all
response: cucumber: Taken.
cucumber: Taken.
cucumber: Taken.
cucumber: Taken.
cucumber: Taken.
cucumber: Taken.
action: Y.
response: cheapglulxe quit with exit status: 0