LucasArts Afterlife Descriptions — Envy and Contentment
The colour is green, of course.
LucasArts Afterlife Descriptions – Introduction + Scegf0d
A while back there was a game called Afterlife which was like a harder version of Sim City 2000 and also involved Heaven and Hell instead of some American city somewhere. Wikipedia has a fairly okay page about it, at least at the time of writing.
Unlike Sim City, the buildings are not just R-C-I stuff, they’re rewards and punishments focusing on the seven deadly sins and their conjugate virtues and so to add flavour, the designers wrote or had written a bunch of descriptions for pretty much every building in the game. They are all present in one big data file that I PRESUME has some parsable structure to it and may also contain the graphics, but the descriptions are at least in it in plain text. Here, then, are all the descriptions I could find.
Shurlock Bones and Dr. Roger
Recently I found a comic I drew as a child. From internal evidence I must have made it in late 1995 and/or early 1996, although the copyright declaration is dated MCXXVIVVIMC, which surprises me. I thought I knew how Roman numerals worked by then, so either I didn’t, or I didn’t care and just didn’t think MCMXCV looked flashy enough.
It is written on a few sheets of thick A3 paper actually bound together with staples, so it is possible it is some comic-making thing I got for Christmas 1995, which would make the author eight.
Read, then, a forgotten classic of the last, lost century: THE CASE OF THE MISSING BONE, Solved by Shurlock Bones.
Dreamlog Classics c. 22nd January 2009 A.G.
anyway my dream
i was in like
kind of a fair
with like two sections
one was all full of fine food and chocolate and candy
and the other was books
I think it was symbolising Vanity Fair
for the food section was full of slines and the books section full of dullards
with nothing good in either section, despite close perusal
anyway then while in Vanity Fair I met somebody I went to like primary school with and he was all like tertiary syphillised up
and after listening to him gibber
I realised the dark side of Vanity Fair
when i saw men with guns
selling guns
and people buying them
Seeing this, I became ill and started kinda wandering around in a feverish daze
the last thing I saw as I was trying to walk out was the barrel of a gun pointed at me by somebody hiding behind a stall
then I briefly woke up again to realise I was being carried by a girl up a staircase in what I assumed was a lighthouse tower, as it was a spiral staircase in some kind of turret with the walls all plastered white
but again, unconsciousness
Then I woke up and I was in a hospital room
A doctor came in and said welp i dunno you have [plɑg] I guess
and I fell asleep again
to have TERRIBLE NIGHTMARES, but then the doctor woke me up
and he was like “i need to take a white blood sample” so I stuck out my wrist and he drew some white blood into a syringe
then he wanted a urine sample, which i provided, and a sputum sample which was hard, so I had to cough into a pot a lot
and it came out like muddy black-brown
which the doctor recognised as indeed being from Vanity Fair, as the air in Vanity Fair is full of dirt that gets into your lungs
then he told me to go back to sleep, so I did, then when he came back, he brought a brochure with him
explaining a had a disease whereby all my internal organs had been replaced by worms
but I looked through it and I pointed out that I actually had none of the symptoms or anything so what was he trying to do
then he confessed yeah, he had no idea what was going on sorry
then I went back to sleep
then I woke up AND I WOKE UP FOR REAL
isn’t that
an interesting dream
the sad part is there is so much I cannot remember
like the books came in sections
but they were all like boring parts
and there was like this fat kid in the chocolate section and his mother yelled at him
and in the hospital room my eeepc was there and I tried to connect to the internet
and there was some complicated mess involving confusing phials of urine
and I don’t remember what the conversation with the syphillitic involved
