Re: Bad Machine Endings

["Avrom Faderman" <Avrom_Faderman@email.msn.com>]

Ross Presser wrote in message <8E275E132pt101594@news.bellatlantic.net>...
>alt.distinguished.Avrom_Faderman@email.msn.com (Avrom
>Faderman).wrote.posted.offered:
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>>(plus, I only found 2 nontrivial endings also and want to know more
>>about others)
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>Spoilers
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>Endings I found:
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>"death" endings:
>- you can run out of energy
>- you can get immobilized by a drone or thinker and repaired by the fixer
>- you can get taken apart by the salvager as you sit on the pile of debris
>- you can freeze or roast by setting your temperature
>- you can get pounded to a pulp by the lifter
>- you can fall to your death by deliberately jumping off the catwalk
>- you can fall to your death by attempting to proceed on the "different"
>part of the catwalk


I wasn't counting any of these, although the second isn't really a death
ending...and Dan Shiovitz at one point called it a "win":  after all, you
presumably go on to a productive life as a Good Machine.

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>"life" endings:
>- you can escape from the factory
>- you can find your way to the queen and be turned into a new queen


These are the two I found.

>unanswered questions:
>- what do you do in the energy room?


I'm pretty sure there's another ending here.

>- can you screw up the factory by messing with the workers?

Hmm...never even gave extensive thought to this.

Best,
Avrom





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