Let's Play ZORK

Walk south
 
Should we restore the egg's unbroken status? I saved before we sat on the egg. We're heading south immediately after this decision, by the way.
 
Sure. I mean it's not like anything bad ever comes from restoring a previous save.
 
>LOOK
Forest
This is a dimly lit forest, with huge trees all around.

Looks like lighting the brass lantern didn't help much, so we'll turn it off, considering it's battery-powered.

>TURN OFF BRASS LANTERN
The brass lantern is now off.
 
do we actually have any evidence that the lantern will eventually run out of batteries
you should start another game, get the lantern, light it, and then walk back and forth between two places 10,000 times to check
 
There is a WAIT command that waits 3 turns. If I do that about 1,000 times, that should be 3,000 moves, which should be plenty enough to check this.
 
After about 60 WAITS, the game said this:
>G
Time passes...
The lamp appears a bit dimmer.

In case you're confused, G is a short-hand command that repeats the last inputted action, which in this case was WAIT. So yes, we now have concrete evidence that the light will run out if turned on for too long.

EDIT: If the lamp is turned on for approximately 450 moves, it will fizz out.
 
>INVENTORY
You are carrying:
A jewel-encrusted egg
A rope
A nasty knife
A brass lantern
A sword
A glass bottle
The glass bottle contains:
A quantity of water
A brown sack
The brown sack contains:
A lunch
A clove of garlic
A leaflet
 
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