One of the most interesting things about games like Zork is that, whether one of the text or graphics games, you don't know what your main character looks like and how they appear to the NPC's. This leads me to the source of my curiosity--like characters in a book, everyone probably pictures the fam...

Interesting that someone said people are finding out about the game less, because I've actually had the good fortune to discover it just recently. Having completed the first and second game and working my way through the third, I think it seems too alive to call dying indeed...the writing (and sense...

Haha--"not cork". On a similar note, I have discovered that grues have another life apart from the devouring (or pecking to death?) of lightless adventurers:

http://www.oiseaux.net/oiseaux/gruiform ... anada.html