Counterfeit Monkey
Anglophone Atlantis has been an independent nation since an April day in 1822, when a well-aimed shot from their depluralizing cannon reduced the British colonizing fleet to one ship.
Since then, Atlantis has been the world's greatest center for linguistic manipulation, designing letter inserters, word synthesizers, the diminutive affixer, and a host of other tools for converting one thing to another. Inventors worldwide pay heavily for that technology, which is where a smuggler and industrial espionage agent such as yourself can really clean up.
Unfortunately, the Bureau of Orthography has taken a serious interest in your activities lately. Your face has been recorded and your cover is blown.
Your remaining assets: about eight more hours of a national holiday that's spreading the police thin; the most inconvenient damn disguise you've ever worn in your life; and one full-alphabet letter remover.
Good luck getting off the island.
(Source: The Interactive Fiction Database)
Teaching Resource that references this work:
Resource | Author | Teaching Resource Type | Year |
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Digital Genres: Digital Art, Electronic Literature, and Computer Games (DIKULT 103, Spring 2020) | Daniel Jung, Hannah Ackermans, Nick Montfort | Syllabus | 2020 |