Bedvere, reading from a book, to Arthur: You enter a 20 x 20 room. There is one door to the north and one door to the south. There is a chest in one corner. You see a friendly dwarf.

A: Well, we talk to the dwarf.


B: What do you say to the friendly dwarf?



A: Hello.


B: Hello what?

A: Uh, hello, friendly dwarf?

B: The dwarf is waiting for you to do something.

L: My liege, perhaps we must parse the command carefully.

A: Oh, then go ahead

L: Talk to dwarf.

B: What do you say to the friendly dwarf?

- L: Say Hello.

B: The dwarf is waiting for you to do something.

R: Maybe the dwarf has something we need for the quest?

L: Search the dwarf!

- B: You cannot do that to a friendly dwarf.

A: Now, look-

- B: You are in a 20 x 20 room. There is a door to the north and a door to the south. There is a chest in one corner. You see a friendly dwarf

L: That was the 'look' command, sire.

A: I know.

B: No what?

- A: Sha'rrup!

B: I do not recognize that command.

- L: CAREfully, sire!

A: Alright!

B: To your right is a friendly dwarf.

A: Okay, NO BODY speak. I wish to examine the dwarf.

B: You do not have a dwarf to examine

- A: Oh, then 'Take Dwarf.'

-- B: You cannot do that to a friendly dwarf.

- A: Say hello

- B: Hello.

- A: NO, say HELLO to DWARF!

- B: There is no need to yell. The dwarf is waiting for you to do something.

A: Something!

- B: I do not recognize that command.

- L: Throw the dwarf against the wall!

- B: You do not have a dwarf.

- L: Take Dwarf!

- B: You cannot do that to a friendly dwarf.

- A: Oh, Sod the dwarf!

- B: Yeeeeeeuuuuuck!

- A: Right. That's enough.

:: Party marches on. After they all file out, empty door shows Lancelot sneaking back in. He raises sword up high over the

B: YOU CAN'T DO THAT TO A FRIENDLY DWARF!

L: Bother!

Dedicated to the Charleston Offcrew Barracks Rats of 1982, who exerted tireless efforts to finding out just what in the hell one does with a friendly dwarf in a certain text-based computer adventure.