! The following code was automatically generated by nki2inf.pl ! Do not edit this file. ! Instead, edit your raw NKI list and run nki2inf.pl again. ! ! Because you can't directly use double quotes, backslashes, ! tildes, or atsigns in Inform, the following substitutions ! are used to generate those characters: ! " --> ~ ! ~ --> @@126 ! \ --> @@92 ! @ --> @@64 [ lookup_msg num; switch(num) { 1: return "~50 Years Among the Non-Kitten Items~, by Ann Droyd."; 2: return "~Blup, blup, blup~, says the mud pot."; 3: return "~Dear robot, you may have already won our 10 MILLION DOLLAR prize...~"; 4: return "~I pity the fool who mistakes me for kitten!~, sez Mr. T."; 5: return "~Kibo was here~"; 6: return "~Kilroy was here~"; 7: return "~Mail Routing and the Domain System~ by Craig Partridge."; 8: return "~No!~ says the bit."; 9: return "~Plexar was here~"; 10: return "~Robot may not injure kitten, or, through inaction, ...~"; 11: return "~Sure hope we get some rain soon,~ says Farmer Joe."; 12: return "~Take a penny, leave a penny.~ You do both."; 13: return "~The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism~ by Emmanuel Goldstein."; 14: return "~There is no kitten!~ cackles the old crone. You are shocked by her blasphemy."; 15: return "~Topsoil's all gone, ma,~ weeps Lil' Greg."; 16: return "~Yes!~ says the bit."; 17: return "'Twas brillig in the slivey-toves..."; 18: return "...thingy???"; 19: return "3.14159... Pi is all over the place here..."; 20: return "99 bottles of beer are on a wall here."; 21: return "A ~Get Out of Jail Free~ card."; 22: return "A 100 meter long chain of jumbo paper clips."; 23: return "A 256 kilobyte write-only memory chip."; 24: return "A 540Hz tuning fork."; 25: return "A Gregorian date palm, its fronds gently waving."; 26: return "A Mentos wrapper."; 27: return "A Sanrio catalog."; 28: return "A Scooby Snack! Yay!"; 29: return "A Swiss-Army knife. All of its appendages are out. (toothpick lost)"; 30: return "A Texas Instruments of Destruction calculator."; 31: return "A baboon with a bassoon hoots angrily at you."; 32: return "A baby catapult and a little pile of pebbles."; 33: return "A badly dented high-hat cymbal lies on its side here."; 34: return "A ball of yarn."; 35: return "A bartender growls, ~No robots allowed!~"; 36: return "A big bass drum bearing a hole and suspicious clawmarks."; 37: return "A big chunk of frozen chocolate pudding."; 38: return "A bit of luck."; 39: return "A blank deposit slip."; 40: return "A bobolink is twittering a happy tune here."; 41: return "A book with ~Don't Panic~ in large friendly letters across the cover."; 42: return "A book: Feng Shui, Zen: the art of randomly arranging items that are not kitten."; 43: return "A bottle of ammonia."; 44: return "A bottle of distilled water."; 45: return "A bottle of hair tonic."; 46: return "A bottle of oil! Refreshing!"; 47: return "A bottle of smelling salts."; 48: return "A bowl of cherries."; 49: return "A bowling ball with the name ~Bob~ inscribed on it."; 50: return "A box of brand-new nixie tubes."; 51: return "A box of dancing mechanical pencils. They dance! They sing!"; 52: return "A brain cell. Oddly enough, it seems to be functioning."; 53: return "A breadbox that's bigger than a breadbox."; 54: return "A briefcase filled with spy stuff."; 55: return "A broken metronome sits here, its needle off to one side."; 56: return "A brown glass vial labeled ~tincture of iodine~."; 57: return "A caboodle."; 58: return "A camera obscura."; 59: return "A canister of pressurized whipped cream, sans whipped cream."; 60: return "A card sharp sits here, practicing his Faro shuffle. He ignores you."; 61: return "A cardboard box of sheet metal screws."; 62: return "A chain hanging from two posts reminds you of the Gateway Arch."; 63: return "A clay pot with grass growing it in sits here."; 64: return "A claymore mine."; 65: return "A cluster of cattails are growing here."; 66: return "A coat hanger hovers in thin air. Odd."; 67: return "A cockatoo shrieks at you."; 68: return "A compendium of haiku about metals."; 69: return "A coupon for one free steak-fish at your local family diner."; 70: return "A crouton."; 71: return "A crowd of people, and at the center, a popular misconception."; 72: return "A cyclops glowers angrily at you."; 73: return "A dangly thing."; 74: return "A dark-emitting diode."; 75: return "A dead battery."; 76: return "A dead click beetle."; 77: return "A digital clock. It's stuck at 2:17 PM."; 78: return "A discarded bagpipe chanter reed."; 79: return "A discarded pop bottle."; 80: return "A discarded refrigerator in a discarded refrigerator box."; 81: return "A discredited cosmology, relic of a bygone era."; 82: return "A dodecahedron bars your way."; 83: return "A dog dressed in a cheap suit is here."; 84: return "A dogcow moofs at you."; 85: return "A failing unit test."; 86: return "A family of integrals is here integrating."; 87: return "A featureless black monolith."; 88: return "A five-horned rhinoceros beetle with rings on every other horn."; 89: return "A flask of hydrochloric acid is here."; 90: return "A flyer advertising a big sale on flyers."; 91: return "A flyer reads, ~Please donate hydraulic fluid~"; 92: return "A forgotten telephone switchboard operator."; 93: return "A forgotten telephone switchboard."; 94: return "A freshly-baked pumpkin pie."; 95: return "A frosted pink party-cake, half eaten."; 96: return "A gecko clings to the ceiling here."; 97: return "A geyser sprays water high into the air."; 98: return "A giant mechanical octopus spews flames from its tentacles."; 99: return "A glorious fan of peacock feathers."; 100: return "A gold-dipped rose."; 101: return "A gravestone stands here. ~Izchak Miller, ascended.~"; 102: return "A green yo-yo."; 103: return "A grin."; 104: return "A haircut and a real job. Now you know where to get one!"; 105: return "A hairless rat."; 106: return "A half empty milk carton. Or is it half full?"; 107: return "A half-eaten cheese sandwich."; 108: return "A hammock stretched between a tree and a volleyball pole."; 109: return "A hastily scribbled note reads, ~kitten is the letter Q.~"; 110: return "A hedgehog. It looks like it knows something important."; 111: return "A helicopter has crashed here."; 112: return "A herd of wild coffee mugs slumbers here."; 113: return "A hickory stump."; 114: return "A historical marker showing the actual location of /dev/null."; 115: return "A hollow voice says ~Fool!~"; 116: return "A hollow voice says ~Plugh.~"; 117: return "A homemade Tesla coil, fully charged."; 118: return "A hovercraft full of eels is parked here."; 119: return "A huge pile of pancakes."; 120: return "A jar of Vegemite is playing hopscotch here."; 121: return "A jar of dehydrated water."; 122: return "A jar of lemon curd."; 123: return "A jar of library paste."; 124: return "A ketchup bottle (nearly empty)."; 125: return "A kitten sink, for washing kitten (if only kitten liked water)."; 126: return "A kitten source (to match the kitten sink)."; 127: return "A large Turkish rug, worn threadbare by years of pacing."; 128: return "A large block of dry ice."; 129: return "A large blue eye floats in midair."; 130: return "A large coil of rope is here."; 131: return "A large pile of rubber bands."; 132: return "A large snake bars your way."; 133: return "A largish bath towel."; 134: return "A leather pouch filled with multisided dice."; 135: return "A little glass tub of Carmex. ($.89) Too bad you have no lips."; 136: return "A little teapot, short and stout."; 137: return "A livery stable! Get your livery!"; 138: return "A lone, forgotten comma, sits here, sobbing."; 139: return "A lotus. You make an interesting pair."; 140: return "A magic switch."; 141: return "A magical... magic thing."; 142: return "A marijuana brownie."; 143: return "A mason jar lies here open. Its label reads: ~do not open!~."; 144: return "A meat-scented air-freshener on a string dances in the breeze."; 145: return "A mere collection of pixels."; 146: return "A model of a twin-hulled sailboat."; 147: return "A naked singularity. You avert your eyes."; 148: return "A neat pile of plastic irrigation pipe."; 149: return "A neural net -- maybe it's trying to recognize kitten."; 150: return "A nondescript box of crackers."; 151: return "A noun and a boat bound to the wrong verb."; 152: return "A number of short theatrical productions are indexed 1, 2, 3, ... n."; 153: return "A packet of catnip."; 154: return "A packet of pipe cleaners."; 155: return "A pair of combat boots."; 156: return "A pair of saloon-style doors swing slowly back and forth here."; 157: return "A pangolin."; 158: return "A parade of ants crosses your path."; 159: return "A parrot, kipping on its back."; 160: return "A passing tiger tells you a terrible tale."; 161: return "A patch from the Mammoth Caves."; 162: return "A patch of grape jelly grows here."; 163: return "A patch of mushrooms grows here."; 164: return "A pile of blood-red maple leaves. You do not have time to count them."; 165: return "A pile of coaxial plumbing lies here."; 166: return "A pile of coconuts."; 167: return "A pile of discarded ~no dumping~ signs."; 168: return "A pile of irrigation valves."; 169: return "A pirate joke."; 170: return "A pirate!"; 171: return "A pizza, melting in the sun."; 172: return "A plush Chewbacca."; 173: return "A post hole digger is stuck in a pile of dirt here."; 174: return "A puddle of chocolate sauce."; 175: return "A puddle of mud, where the mudskippers play."; 176: return "A puddle of purple semi-gloss latex paint."; 177: return "A punch bowl, filled with punch and lemon slices."; 178: return "A radio hisses away."; 179: return "A rancid corn dog."; 180: return "A realistic toy kitten. Suspended high above is a large steel cage."; 181: return "A river of liquid nitrogen flows through here."; 182: return "A robot comedian performs here. You feel amused."; 183: return "A roll of duct tape."; 184: return "A roll of scratch-and-sniff stickers."; 185: return "A rusted safety pin."; 186: return "A rusted telephone booth."; 187: return "A rusty crowbar."; 188: return "A rusty melon-baller."; 189: return "A rusty slinky. It was such a wonderful toy!"; 190: return "A sack of doorknobs."; 191: return "A sack of hammers."; 192: return "A sack of wet mice."; 193: return "A salmon hatchery? Look again. It's merely a single salmon."; 194: return "A saucer of milk."; 195: return "A scrap of parchment bears the single word, ~meow~."; 196: return "A scratching-post."; 197: return "A screwdriver."; 198: return "A sealed tin bearing only the word ~yummy~."; 199: return "A section of glowing phosphor cells sings a song of radiation to you."; 200: return "A set of keys to a 2001 Rolls Royce. Worthless."; 201: return "A sheep and a lamp, lounging beneath a myrtle tree."; 202: return "A sign reads ~Don't step on the Mome Raths~."; 203: return "A sign reads: ~Go home!~"; 204: return "A sign reads: ~Ignore this sign!~"; 205: return "A sign reads: ~No robots allowed!~"; 206: return "A signpost saying ~TO KITTEN~. It points in no particular direction."; 207: return "A singing frog. Useless."; 208: return "A six-wheeled robot sits lifeless, stuck in the dirt."; 209: return "A slightly-used smellovision set."; 210: return "A small box of fishing weights."; 211: return "A small, featureless, white cube."; 212: return "A smoking branding iron shaped like a 24-pin connector."; 213: return "A spindle, and a grindle, and a bucka-wacka-woom!"; 214: return "A spiral-bound copy of the Necronomicon."; 215: return "A squirrel contentedly gnaws on a sprinkler head here."; 216: return "A stack of 7 inch floppies wobbles precariously."; 217: return "A statue of a girl holding a goose like the one in Gottingen, Germany."; 218: return "A steam-powered bunnytron."; 219: return "A stegosaurus, escaped from stegosaurusfindsrobot. It finds you."; 220: return "A stony meteorite."; 221: return "A street map of the city of Anaheim."; 222: return "A sub-atomic particle languishes here all alone."; 223: return "A sudden burst of maniaical cackling makes you feel homesick."; 224: return "A team of Arctic explorers is camped here."; 225: return "A technical university in Australia."; 226: return "A tetradrachm dated ~42 B.C.~"; 227: return "A threadbare tweed suit."; 228: return "A tiny robot scuttles across the floor."; 229: return "A tiny velvet pouch."; 230: return "A toenail? What good is a toenail?"; 231: return "A toilet bowl occupies this space."; 232: return "A ton of feathers."; 233: return "A toupee."; 234: return "A toy zeppelin."; 235: return "A traffic signal. It appears to have been recently vandalized."; 236: return "A train of thought chugs through here."; 237: return "A trash compactor, compacting away."; 238: return "A travel-sized cyclotron."; 239: return "A tree with some jelly nailed to it."; 240: return "A tube of heat sink grease."; 241: return "A tube of toothpaste. Too bad you have no teeth."; 242: return "A tube of white lithium grease. Perfect for your robotic joints."; 243: return "A twist of lemon."; 244: return "A vacuum cleaner appears to have exploded here."; 245: return "A vanilla pudding pop."; 246: return "A vase full of artificial flowers is stuck to the floor here."; 247: return "A voice booms out ~Onward, kitten soldiers...~"; 248: return "A waffle iron is here and it's still hot."; 249: return "A warranted genuine Snark."; 250: return "A waterlogged grand piano."; 251: return "A willing, ripe tomato bemoans your inability to digest fruit."; 252: return "A wireframe model of a hot dog rotates in space here."; 253: return "A wondrous and intricate golden amulet. Too bad you have no neck."; 254: return "A zorkmid coin."; 255: return "Ah, the skirl of the pipes and the rustle of the silicon..."; 256: return "Ah, the uniform of a Revolutionary-era minuteman."; 257: return "Air."; 258: return "Alien underwear."; 259: return "An Internet chain letter."; 260: return "An abandoned used-car lot."; 261: return "An albatross, around its own neck."; 262: return "An aromatherapy candle burns with healing light."; 263: return "An assortment of highly-nutritious vegetables."; 264: return "An atomic vector plotter."; 265: return "An authentic 1953 veeblefetzer, sadly in need of adjustment."; 266: return "An autographed copy of the works of Anonymous."; 267: return "An automated robot-disdainer. It pretends you're not there."; 268: return "An automated robot-doubter. It doesn't believe in you."; 269: return "An automated robot-hater. It frowns disapprovingly at you."; 270: return "An automated robot-liker. It smiles at you."; 271: return "An electric engraving pencil."; 272: return "An electric fan lies on its side here."; 273: return "An eminently forgettable zahir."; 274: return "An empty Altoids tin."; 275: return "An empty coaxial cable spool."; 276: return "An empty shopping bag. Paper or plastic?"; 277: return "An erroneous proof of the Goldbach Conjecture."; 278: return "An expired transistor."; 279: return "An historical marker."; 280: return "An ice cube."; 281: return "An iron meteorite."; 282: return "An obvious metaphor for Sysiphisian futility."; 283: return "An old bootable business card, unfortunately cracked down the middle."; 284: return "An old pattern is here going on and on."; 285: return "An old rusty revolver."; 286: return "An ordinary bust of Beethoven... but why is it painted green?"; 287: return "An oven mitt with kittens on it."; 288: return "An overflowing bit bucket."; 289: return "An overturned bottle of rainbow-colored ink."; 290: return "An underwater avocado."; 291: return "An unlicensed nuclear accelerator."; 292: return "An unripe orange."; 293: return "Another rabbit? That's three today!"; 294: return "Bars of lard, stacked a mile high."; 295: return "Beef stew."; 296: return "Biscuits."; 297: return "Bits of red construction paper are scattered all about."; 298: return "Blod."; 299: return "Brass tacks."; 300: return "Bright copper kettles."; 301: return "Bronzed baby shoes."; 302: return "Butane!!!"; 303: return "Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Color, Phosphoric Acid, Flavors."; 304: return "Ceci n'est pas un chaton."; 305: return "Chewing gum and baling wire."; 306: return "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously here."; 307: return "Could it be... a big ugly bowling trophy?"; 308: return "Diogenes is here, demanding whisky."; 309: return "Dirty socks."; 310: return "Ed Witten sits here, pondering string theory."; 311: return "Empty jewelboxes litter the landscape."; 312: return "Five pounds of flax."; 313: return "For a moment, you feel something in your hands, but it disappears!"; 314: return "Grind 'em up, spit 'em out, they're twigs."; 315: return "Haphazard stacks of white uppercase letters."; 316: return "Haven't you touched this before?"; 317: return "Heart of Darkness brand pistachio nuts."; 318: return "Heeeeeeeeeeeere's Johnny!"; 319: return "Here is no kitten but only rock, rock and no kitten and the sandy road."; 320: return "Here you are, at the behest."; 321: return "Here you are, over the objections."; 322: return "Here you are, under the auspices."; 323: return "Hey, I bet you thought this was kitten."; 324: return "Hey, look, it's war. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again."; 325: return "Hey, robot, leave those lists alone."; 326: return "Ho hum. Another synthetic a posteriori."; 327: return "Hydraulic fluid and jagged metal bits. You recoil from the scene of carnage."; 328: return "I don't know what that is, but it's not kitten."; 329: return "IT'S ALIVE! AH HA HA HA HA!"; 330: return "If it's not one thing, it's another."; 331: return "If it's one thing, it's not another."; 332: return "In Soviet Russia, kitten finds you. Unfortunately, this isn't Soviet Russia."; 333: return "Insane laughter issues from this vibrating shipping crate."; 334: return "Is that an elephant's head or a winged sandal?"; 335: return "It is -- I just feel something wonderful is about to happen."; 336: return "It is a cloud shaped like an ox."; 337: return "It is a marzipan dreadnought that appears to have melted and stuck."; 338: return "It is a set of wind-up chatter teeth."; 339: return "It is an ancient mariner, and he stoppeth one of three."; 340: return "It pleases you to be kind to what appears to be kitten -- but it's not!"; 341: return "It seems to be a copy of ~A Tail of Two Kitties~."; 342: return "It's ~Finding kitten~, published by O'Reilly and Associates."; 343: return "It's ~War and Peace~ (unabridged, very small print)."; 344: return "It's 1000 secrets the government doesn't want you to know!"; 345: return "It's Babe Flathead's favorite bat."; 346: return "It's Bach's Mass in B-minor!"; 347: return "It's Brian Kernighan."; 348: return "It's Death."; 349: return "It's Dennis Ritchie."; 350: return "It's Grundle, the Green Dragon."; 351: return "It's Jesse James's severed hand and it's still moving."; 352: return "It's KITT, the talking car."; 353: return "It's Lucy Ricardo. ~Aaaah, Ricky!~, she says."; 354: return "It's Mary Poppins!"; 355: return "It's Professor Feedlebom."; 356: return "It's Richard Nixon's nose!"; 357: return "It's Schrodinger's non-kitten."; 358: return "It's Uncle Doctor Hurkamur!"; 359: return "It's a ~HOME ALONE 2: Lost in New York~ novelty cup."; 360: return "It's a Bergenholm drive."; 361: return "It's a Cat 5 cable."; 362: return "It's a DVD of ~Crouching Monkey, Hidden Kitten~, region encoded for the moon."; 363: return "It's a Dvorak keyboard."; 364: return "It's a Franklin Ebookman."; 365: return "It's a Java applet."; 366: return "It's a Linux install CD."; 367: return "It's a MITS Altair 8800."; 368: return "It's a NetBSD install CD."; 369: return "It's a Quaker Oatmeal tube, converted into a drum."; 370: return "It's a U.S. president."; 371: return "It's a banana! Oh, joy!"; 372: return "It's a battery-powered brass lantern."; 373: return "It's a big block of ice. Something seems to be frozen inside it."; 374: return "It's a big smoking fish."; 375: return "It's a black hole. Don't fall in!"; 376: return "It's a blob of blue goo."; 377: return "It's a blob of grey goo."; 378: return "It's a blob of red goo."; 379: return "It's a bottle of nail polish remover."; 380: return "It's a box of lox."; 381: return "It's a box of pinball machine parts."; 382: return "It's a bucket of water."; 383: return "It's a bug."; 384: return "It's a business plan for a new startup, kitten.net."; 385: return "It's a cardboard box full of 8-track tapes."; 386: return "It's a cat. Are you too late?"; 387: return "It's a charcoal briquette, smoking away."; 388: return "It's a child's pull-toy."; 389: return "It's a clue!"; 390: return "It's a concatenation of circumstances."; 391: return "It's a continental breakfast."; 392: return "It's a cookie shaped like a kitten."; 393: return "It's a copy editor, reading aloud from the Associated Press Stylebook."; 394: return "It's a copy of ~Zen and The Art of Robot Maintenance~."; 395: return "It's a copy of Knuth with the chapter on kitten-search algorithms torn out."; 396: return "It's a copy of the Book of Found Kittens."; 397: return "It's a copy of the robotfindskitten EULA."; 398: return "It's a dark, amphorous blob of matter."; 399: return "It's a fleet of mothballs."; 400: return "It's a fly on the wall. Hi, fly!"; 401: return "It's a fossil trilobite."; 402: return "It's a fragment of an old Russian spacecraft."; 403: return "It's a free Dmitry Sklyarov!"; 404: return "It's a free Jon Johansen!"; 405: return "It's a funky beat!"; 406: return "It's a groat coated with pocket fluff."; 407: return "It's a grue. Fortunately, they don't like to eat robots."; 408: return "It's a gun of some sort."; 409: return "It's a hanging chad."; 410: return "It's a hologram of a crashed helicopter."; 411: return "It's a hundred-dollar bill."; 412: return "It's a hyperkinetic rabbity thing."; 413: return "It's a large pile of crumpled notepaper."; 414: return "It's a left-handed smoke shifter."; 415: return "It's a limbo bar! How low can you go?"; 416: return "It's a list of the zeroes of the Riemann zeta function."; 417: return "It's a merry-go-round (broken down)."; 418: return "It's a mighty zombie talking about some love and prosperity."; 419: return "It's a model of a catamaran."; 420: return "It's a moment of silence."; 421: return "It's a mousetrap, baited with soap."; 422: return "It's a nameless MSX computer from Japan."; 423: return "It's a nasty knife."; 424: return "It's a perpetual immobility machine."; 425: return "It's a pigeon with a TCP/IP packet duct-taped to its leg."; 426: return "It's a pile of wine corks."; 427: return "It's a pool with a straw in it."; 428: return "It's a portable hole. A sign reads: ~Closed for the winter~."; 429: return "It's a prosthetic wheel, bent out of shape."; 430: return "It's a rapidly oscillating function."; 431: return "It's a recursive recursive recursive recursive recursive..."; 432: return "It's a red staple-remover."; 433: return "It's a red stapler."; 434: return "It's a rhyton. Right on!"; 435: return "It's a rim shot. Ba-da-boom!"; 436: return "It's a roll of industrial-strength copper wire."; 437: return "It's a rotating potato."; 438: return "It's a rotten old shoe."; 439: return "It's a rousing rendition of ~O Canada.~"; 440: return "It's a segmentation fault. Core dumped, by the way."; 441: return "It's a sleeping lion."; 442: return "It's a solitary vacuum tube."; 443: return "It's a spade."; 444: return "It's a squad of Keystone Kops."; 445: return "It's a square."; 446: return "It's a steaming bowl of homemade gnocci."; 447: return "It's a stone, unturned."; 448: return "It's a stupid mask, fashioned after a beagle."; 449: return "It's a symbol. You see in it a model for all symbols everywhere."; 450: return "It's a synthetic a priori truth! Immanuel would be so pleased!"; 451: return "It's a tape of '70s rock. All original hits! All original artists!"; 452: return "It's a tribute to fishnet stockings."; 453: return "It's a typewriter, covered in dust."; 454: return "It's a universal Turing machine constructed from LEGO blocks."; 455: return "It's a wallet full of blank credit cards."; 456: return "It's a week-old baloney sandwich."; 457: return "It's a whirly thing of some sort."; 458: return "It's a zen simulation, trapped within an ASCII character."; 459: return "It's an altar to the horse god."; 460: return "It's an argon-filled vault."; 461: return "It's an elongated brown sack, smelling of hot peppers."; 462: return "It's an elvish sword of great antiquity."; 463: return "It's an external dependency."; 464: return "It's an incomplete"; 465: return "It's an inverted billiard ball!"; 466: return "It's an oil portrait of you, about to find kitten."; 467: return "It's an old Duke Ellington record."; 468: return "It's an unknown area code."; 469: return "It's another robot, more advanced in design than you but strangely immobile."; 470: return "It's creepy and it's kooky, mysterious and spooky. It's also somewhat ooky."; 471: return "It's cute like a kitten, but isn't a kitten."; 472: return "It's either a mirror, or another robot."; 473: return "It's evidence."; 474: return "It's just an object."; 475: return "It's more money than you'll ever need."; 476: return "It's nothing but a corrupted floppy. Coaster anyone?"; 477: return "It's nothing in particular."; 478: return "It's part of a complete breakfast."; 479: return "It's probably nothing."; 480: return "It's scenery for ~Waiting for Godot~."; 481: return "It's skeuomorphism. Yay, skeuomorphism!"; 482: return "It's something fizzy."; 483: return "It's the tag!"; 484: return "It's the ASCII Floating Head of Seth David Schoen!"; 485: return "It's the Brass Nodes of the Universe."; 486: return "It's the Capable Prune."; 487: return "It's the Donation of Constantine!"; 488: return "It's the Golden Banana of Discord!"; 489: return "It's the Maltese Falcon."; 490: return "It's the Queen of Hearts! ~Off with their heads!~, she shouts."; 491: return "It's the Super Bass-O-Matic '76! Mmm, that's good bass!"; 492: return "It's the Tiki Room."; 493: return "It's the Will Rogers Highway. Who was Will Rogers, anyway?"; 494: return "It's the amazing self-referential thing that's not kitten."; 495: return "It's the astounding meta-object."; 496: return "It's the classification of all finite simple groups."; 497: return "It's the constellation Pisces."; 498: return "It's the cork to someone's lunch."; 499: return "It's the crusty exoskeleton of an arthropod!"; 500: return "It's the handheld robotfindskitten game, by Tiger."; 501: return "It's the horizon. Now THAT'S weird."; 502: return "It's the instruction manual for a previous version of this game."; 503: return "It's the local draft board."; 504: return "It's the mark of the beast!"; 505: return "It's the missing chapter to ~A Clockwork Orange~."; 506: return "It's the proverbial wet blanket."; 507: return "It's the set of uninteresting natural numbers."; 508: return "It's the shock of recognition."; 509: return "It's the shortest distance between two points."; 510: return "It's the triangle leg adjacent to an angle divided by the leg opposite it."; 511: return "It's the whites of their eyes."; 512: return "It's the wrong number."; 513: return "It's this message, nothing more."; 514: return "It's wholesale, direct to you."; 515: return "Jacket fluff."; 516: return "Just a big brick wall."; 517: return "Just a box of backscratchers."; 518: return "Just a cage of white mice."; 519: return "Just a moldy loaf of bread."; 520: return "Just a monitor with the blue element burnt out."; 521: return "Just a pincushion."; 522: return "Just an autographed copy of the Kama Sutra."; 523: return "Just some glop of some sort."; 524: return "Just some old play by a Czech playwright, and you can't read Czech."; 525: return "Just some rusted lug nuts and an ancient hub cap."; 526: return "Just some spite."; 527: return "Just some stuff."; 528: return "Just some swamp gas."; 529: return "Just the empty husk of a locust."; 530: return "Just the usual gang of idiots."; 531: return "Keep looking and you will find kitten eventually."; 532: return "Lentil loaf."; 533: return "Long lost needle nose pliers."; 534: return "Look at that, it's the Crudmobile."; 535: return "Look out! Exclamation points!"; 536: return "Lysine, an essential amino acid. Well, maybe not for robots."; 537: return "Marvin is complaining about the pain in the diodes down his left side."; 538: return "Mere shells cannot contain these peanuts!"; 539: return "More grist for the mill."; 540: return "Mr. Hooper is here, surfing."; 541: return "Ne'er but a potted plant."; 542: return "Not kitten, just a packet of Kool-Aid(tm)."; 543: return "Nothing but some scribbles in crayon."; 544: return "ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND CARPET FIBERS!!!!!"; 545: return "Oh boy! Grub! Er, grubs."; 546: return "One liter of fuming nitric acid."; 547: return "One of the few remaining discos."; 548: return "Ooh, shiny!"; 549: return "Paul Moyer's necktie."; 550: return "Pieces of broken clay pigeons are scattered all about."; 551: return "Plenty of nothing."; 552: return "Preoccupation with finding kitten prevents you from investigating further."; 553: return "Pumpkin pie spice."; 554: return "Quidquid Latine dictum sit, kitten non est."; 555: return "Rene Descarte is whistling a happy tune here."; 556: return "Robot should not be touching that."; 557: return "Run away! Run away!"; 558: return "Seargent Duffy is here."; 559: return "Seven 1/4~ screws and a piece of plastic."; 560: return "Several hackles are here and they appear to be up."; 561: return "Several meters of Cat 5 cable."; 562: return "Sigmund Freud is here, asking about your mother."; 563: return "Slack!"; 564: return "Snacky things."; 565: return "So, THAT's what an invisible barrier looks like!"; 566: return "Some coconut crabs are milling about here."; 567: return "Some sort of electronic handheld game from the 1970s."; 568: return "Someone dropped a cheap ballpoint pen here."; 569: return "Someone dropped an expensive fountain pen here."; 570: return "Someone has written ~ad aerarium~ on the ground here."; 571: return "Someone's identity disk lies here."; 572: return "Something borrowed, something blue."; 573: return "Something is written here in the dust. You read: ~rJbotf ndQkttten~."; 574: return "Stimutacs."; 575: return "Sutro Tower is visible at some distance through the fog."; 576: return "TV says donuts are high in fat."; 577: return "Talcum powder."; 578: return "Tea and/or crumpets."; 579: return "Ten yards of avocado-green shag carpet."; 580: return "Thar's Mobius Dick, the convoluted whale. Arrr!"; 581: return "That's just a charred human corpse."; 582: return "That's just an old tin can."; 583: return "The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998."; 584: return "The Inform Designer's Manual (4th edition)"; 585: return "The Monolith of Spam towers above you."; 586: return "The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit."; 587: return "The World's Biggest Matzoh Ball!"; 588: return "The boom box cranks out an old Ethel Merman tune."; 589: return "The intermission from a 1930s silent movie."; 590: return "The ionosphere seems charged with meaning."; 591: return "The letters O and R."; 592: return "The man page for the UNIX 'find' command."; 593: return "The non-kitten item bites!"; 594: return "The non-kitten item like this but with ~false~ and ~true~ switched is true."; 595: return "The non-kitten item like this but with ~true~ and ~false~ switched is false."; 596: return "The object pushes back at you."; 597: return "The pants that Curly died in."; 598: return "The rothe hits! The rothe hits!"; 599: return "The rusted gates of an abandoned bemusement park."; 600: return "The score for a Czech composer's ~Kitten-Finding Symphony in C~."; 601: return "The spectre of Sherlock Holmes wills you onwards."; 602: return "The swampy ground around you seems to stink with disease."; 603: return "There are many coins here!"; 604: return "There is a small mailbox here."; 605: return "There is no tea here."; 606: return "There's nothing here; it's just an optical illusion."; 607: return "There's something behind you."; 608: return "These aren't ordinary beans. They're magic beans!"; 609: return "This TRS-80 III is eerily silent."; 610: return "This appears to be a rather large stack of trashy romance novels."; 611: return "This appears to be a statue of Perseus."; 612: return "This bouncy castle is filled with helium."; 613: return "This corroded robot is clutching a mitten."; 614: return "This drawer is full of dried out rubber stoppers."; 615: return "This grain elevator towers high above you."; 616: return "This invisible box contains a pantomime horse."; 617: return "This is a Lagrange point. Don't come too close now."; 618: return "This is a disaster area."; 619: return "This is a porcelain kitten-counter. 0, 0, 0, 0, 0..."; 620: return "This is a remote control. Being a robot, you keep a wide berth."; 621: return "This is a tasty-looking banana creme pie."; 622: return "This is a television. On screen you see a robot strangely similar to yourself."; 623: return "This is an anagram."; 624: return "This is only a test of the Emergency Broadcast System."; 625: return "This is the forest primeval."; 626: return "This is the tenth key you've found so far."; 627: return "This is the world-famous Chain of Jockstraps."; 628: return "This isn't the item you're looking for."; 629: return "This jar of pickles expired in 1957."; 630: return "This jukebox has nothing but Cliff Richards albums in it."; 631: return "This kind of looks like kitten, but it's not."; 632: return "This looks like Bradley's ~Appearance and Reality~, but it's really not."; 633: return "This looks like a skateboarding arcade video game."; 634: return "This looks like an umbrella turned inside out."; 635: return "This looks remarkably like last Tuesday."; 636: return "This map is not the territory."; 637: return "This might be the fountain of youth, but you'll never know."; 638: return "This non-kitten item no verb."; 639: return "This non-kitten item was present in a previous version, but has been removed."; 640: return "This object here appears to be Louis Farrakhan's bow tie."; 641: return "This object is like an analogy."; 642: return "This particular monstrosity appears to be ENIAC."; 643: return "This peg-leg is stuck in a knothole!"; 644: return "This place is called Antarctica. There is no kitten here."; 645: return "This seems to be junk mail addressed to the finder of the Eye of Larn."; 646: return "This subwoofer was blown out in 1974."; 647: return "This thing appears to be an ancient Roman breastplate."; 648: return "This tiny barbecue is spotlessly clean."; 649: return "This toaster strudel is riddled with bullet holes!"; 650: return "This tomography is like, hella axial, man!"; 651: return "This vending machine dispenses only coffee grounds."; 652: return "This was no boating accident!"; 653: return "Three half-pennies and a wooden nickel."; 654: return "Three lizards lie here, playing Rock-Paper-Scissors."; 655: return "Three mismatched gloves."; 656: return "Tweeting birds."; 657: return "Two crepes, two crepes in a box."; 658: return "Two magnets cling to each other in the darkness."; 659: return "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone."; 660: return "Uh-oh..."; 661: return "Vitriol."; 662: return "Vladimir Lenin's casket rests here."; 663: return "Wait! This isn't the poker chip! You've been tricked! DAMN YOU, MENDEZ!"; 664: return "We wish you a merry kitten, and a happy New Year!"; 665: return "Welcome back, robot."; 666: return "What in blazes is this?"; 667: return "What's that blue thing doing here?"; 668: return "Whatever it is, it's circular. Oh, it's a circle!"; 669: return "Why are you touching this when you should be finding kitten?"; 670: return "You can't touch that."; 671: return "You discover the entrance to a forgotten mine."; 672: return "You disturb a murder of crows."; 673: return "You encounter a cheap knockoff of this game: ~androidfindspuppy.~"; 674: return "You feel strangely unfulfilled."; 675: return "You find a bright shiny penny."; 676: return "You find a fraud scheme in which loans are used as security for other loans."; 677: return "You find a random assortment of dots and dashes."; 678: return "You find an Atari 2600 game cartridge with no label."; 679: return "You found kitten! No, just kidding."; 680: return "You found netkit! Way to go, robot!"; 681: return "You found the marble in the oatmeal!"; 682: return "You have new mail in /var/spool/robot"; 683: return "You search this barrel thoroughly, but find only dried mango slices."; 684: return "You see a rhinestone-studded dog collar, but no dog."; 685: return "You see a snowflake here, melting slowly."; 686: return "You stumble upon Bill Gates's stand-up act."; 687: return "You stumble upon a digital signature."; 688: return "You suddenly yearn for your distant homeland."; 689: return "You won't believe what this is."; 690: return "You've discovered an enormous pile of socks."; 691: return "You've found a black screen filled with colorful ASCII characters."; 692: return "You've found a precautionary measure."; 693: return "You've found a speed bump."; 694: return "You've found the Gingerbread Man!"; 695: return "You've found the fabled America Online disk graveyard!"; 696: return "You've found the fish! Not that it does you much good in this game."; 697: return "You've found the snows of yesteryear! So that's where they all went to."; 698: return "Your current score: 3."; 699: return "Your existential dread."; 700: return "Your pal Floyd is here and wants to play Hucka-Bucka-Beanstalk."; 701: return "Your permanent record."; 702: return "A 3-inch floppy disk."; 703: return "A 3-sided Monty Python record."; 704: return "A broken cricket bat."; 705: return "A Buttertonsils bar."; 706: return "A child's drawing of a kitten."; 707: return "A copy of the Weekly World News. Watch out for the chambered nautilus!"; 708: return "A crystal ball. It doesn't seem to know where Kitten is."; 709: return "A demonic voice proclaims ~There is no kitten, only Zuul~. You flee."; 710: return "A discarded envelope chewed by Kitten."; 711: return "A flyer advertising a sale at Spatula City."; 712: return "A garden gnome."; 713: return "A jar of buttons."; 714: return "A meerkat... not even close."; 715: return "An Enfield Mk3 rifle."; 716: return "An M1911A1 pistol."; 717: return "A tuft of kitten fur, but no kitten."; 718: return "Clifford Stoll is here selling Klein bottles."; 719: return "It's Andrew Plotkin plotting something."; 720: return "It's a small bouncy creature, but obviously not kitten."; 721: return "Mr. Kamikaze and Mr. DNA are here drinking tea."; 722: return "The Smart Patrol is here."; 723: return "You've found the decoy kitten!"; default: return "Unknown NKI (this should not happen)"; } ]; Constant MESSAGE_NUM 723;