Fingertips: Fingertips (Reprise)
Melvin Rangasamy
based on songs They Might Be Giants
A horrifying choice with glorious text-based graphics.
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Standard interpreter 1.0 (6b) / Library serial number 080126
Standard Rules version 2/090402 by Graham Nelson
Common Game Code by Eggerich Von Eggermond
Basic Screen Effects version 7 by Emily Short

You awake in a room. The space is completely empty apart from a computer screen and a keyboard underneath it, both built into the wall. The screen shows what appears to resemble the back of two hands, their fingertips concealed. Beneath the hands is a question. Like so: _
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|U|                     |U| | |
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| |                     | | | |
_  | |  _   _              | | | |  _   _
| |_| |_| |_| |             | |_| |_| |_| |
|             |    _        |             |
|             |   /0|       |             |
|             |  / /       _|             |
|             | / /       / |             |
|             |/ /       |  |             |
|               /         \               |
|              /           \              |
|             /             \             |

How many fingers am I holding up?
4
You cautiously enter "four" into the keyboard.

After a few moments the screen fades. "Incorrect," a sinister voice whispers behind you. "Thumbs do not count as fingers!" You turn around but there is nothing there.

Press ANY KEY to continue.
You awake, your dreams forgotten. All that remains is a strange sense of being cheated.
4
You cautiously enter "four" into the keyboard.

After a few moments the screen fades out and a disembodied voice whispers, "Fingertips" over and over. Then the walls, floor and ceiling slide into the ground. You find yourself in a void. You start to wonder where you may be but as soon enough you black out.

Press ANY KEY to continue.
You awake in a cold sweat, safe but unsettled, a strange tingle in your fingertips.