You are seated at your desk in your office. Your computer monitor glows with the quarterly TPS reports and an email notification. To the north, there is an exit. There is a desk lamp here.

>read email

Welcome to WORK!

WORK is a game of drudgery, misery, and high dissatisfaction. In it, you will explore the amazing depths you’ll go to just for job security and a steady paycheck. Hardened adventurers have run screaming from the terrors contained within.

>delete email

Deleted.

>go north

As much as you’d like to go home to your darling Scotch bottle and the photos of your ex-wife that still hang in your living room, mocking your lonely existence, you should probably finish up those TPS reports, buddy.

>finish TPS reports

KRA-ZZT! Uh, oh. Looks like the power just went out. You look at your now blank computer screen, cursing the fact that you never learned from the “Save Early, Save Often” lessons of your text adventure playing youth.

>crap

I do not understand the word “crap”.

For some reason, the desk lamp has just illuminated.

>examine lamp

Oh, hey! It’s the Energizer Light on Demand Desk Lamp! You remember seeing these on a wildly successful Internet retailer’s website. The name of the site, however, escapes you.

This desk lamp seems to run on AC Power AND batteries, with an Auto mode that automatically turns it on in case the power goes out. It has high and low power setting, too, to provide you light when ever you need it. You also notice that the area light at the top is removable. Pretty fancy stuff.

>get area light

Taken. With this in hand, you’ll be able to traverse the labrythine cubicles of the inner office and find your way to your car. With the hours of power remaining in the recharable batteries, you can travel without fear being eaten by a worker grue.

>put in resignation

Good for you, sport. They were probably going to fire you, anyway. This way you can still leave with your head held high.

>go home

You leave the office safely, only to realize once you’ve stepped outside that the blackout isn’t just confined to your building. The entire city is dark.

The ground underneath you beings to rumble. To your left, a large robot appears and spots you standing in the street. It points something red and glowy at you and says something that sounds like “Filthy Hu-Man” through tinny speakers.

>crap

I do not understand the word “crap”.

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