Lighters in Interactive Fiction

• By the Lake (2015)

  > x lighter (@ Island)

  An old, discarded bic lighter.

• Capture Santa! (2007)

  > x lighter (@ Kitchen)

  A little red lighter. It's full of lighter fluid, and ready to burn things. Fat, sneaky things.

• The Chinese Room (2007)

  > x lighter (@ Pavement Café)

  It a bit old and creaky, but it gives a serviceable spark.

• Coffee Quest II (2002)

  > x lighter (@ Cubicle of Doom)

  The lighter is cheap and plastic, it bears the legend:
  'Vlads Mini-Mart and Bargain Emporium.'

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  Cragne Manor (2018)

  > x cheap lighter (@ Bathroom of the Meatpacking Plant)

  One of those cheap shitty little cigarette lighters you buy out of a tray at a bodega or gas station, the ones that don't work very well and have too little fluid. People only buy these when they're broke, or when they're so high that they actually appreciate the cliche head-shop clip-art on the side of the thing.

  The art on this one is of a wizard holding a glowing marijuana leaf up over his head like it's the frikkin' Triforce. Damn. That's actually rad.

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  Diddlebucker! (2018)

  > x lighter (@ Rooftop)

  It's a small disposable lighter.

• Die a Hero or Become the Villian (2012)

  > x Golden Lighter (@ Shop)

  Can burn stuff and look nice. Like you!

• Digging thru Doctrine of the Dead (2004)

  > x lighter (@ Ad Hoc Laboratory)

  Baby blue and plastic, but functional.

• Everybody Loves a Parade (1997)

  > x cigarette lighter (@ Move-It Van)

  Damn thing's broken, just like everything else. When was the last time this truck was serviced?

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  Gaucho (2012)

  > x lighter (@ Old Saloon)

  The lighter has a wooden handle engraved with a split open pepper on each side.

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  Geist (2014)

  > x lighter (@ Front Hall)

  Looks antique. Silver, and monogrammed with the initials S.A. You flip it open and flick the wheel. Yup, still works. You flip it closed again, extinguishing the flame.

• LegBreaker 3k! (2000)

  > x zippo lighter (@ The Starewell)

  It's BROKEN! Just like everything else in this godforsaken society of ours! Just like the taunts of radical feminism echoing from the fifties! It's stained and rusted, rotten to the core like that apple Eve made Adam eat. It's melting in your hands like a SALVADOR DALI painting! It's... oh dear.. the monster behind you has eaten it.

  "Yum!" says the monster.

• MythTale (2002)

  > x lighter (@ Kitchen)

  A simple, plain lighter that you use to light the stove.

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  Perdition's Flames (1993)

  > x pocket lighter (@ Just Mirrors)

  It's a small plastic pocket lighter.

• Riverside (2008)

  > x lighter (@ Bedroom)

  Yep, it really is a Zork lighter. It must have been custom made, although it doesn't show any signs of prior use.

• Save the Cheshire Cat! (2014)

  > x lighter (@ Oasis of the Flavour)

  A black lighter, with something written on it: "Darkiss.marcovallarino.it". (Occult advertising?!)

• Search for the Sacred Stone (2005)

  > examine lighter (@ Elmo's Pawn Shop)

  It's a plastic disposable lighter, but it is almost out of fluid.

• So Far (1996)

  > x ceramic square (@ Center of Mall)

  It's a thin square of some pale ceramic, about as wide as two of your fingers together. The edges and corners are a little rounded; the surface is matte, not polished. A few symbols are stamped on one side, slightly smudged, in bright red ink. [if unbroken]A deep groove cuts diagonally across one corner of the square. That corner bears a red dot.[else if broken]One corner of the square is gone.[end if] [if lit]A tiny hot needle of blue flame jets from the break.[else if burnt out]The break is clean and straight, just slightly rough.[end if]

• The Song of the Mockingbird (2021)

  > x casket (@ Behind the Outcropping)

  This oblong casket fits perfectly in the palm of your hand. Its gold exterior is covered with intricate scrolling, and a few words are engraved on the top.

  [if both compartments closed] A hinge three-quarters of the way along the top suggests that the casket contains a small and a large compartment. Both are closed. [if lit] A wisp of smoke escapes from the smaller compartment. [end if]

  [else if large compartment open] One end of the gold casket is open, revealing a large compartment filled with a jumble of small gray discs. A smaller compartment on the other end of the casket is closed. [if lit] A wisp of smoke escapes from the smaller compartment on the other end. [end if]

  [else if small compartment open] One end of the gold casket is open, revealing a small compartment. Inside the compartment, [if indentation empty] you see a round indentation about the size of a fingertip. The indentation contains a smaller hole, through which you can see some mechanism. [else has unlit disc] a small gray disc nestles into a round indentation, seemingly made for it. [else] a glowing disc nestles into a round indentation, smoldering and giving off a trail of malodorous smoke. [end if] A larger compartment on the other end of the casket is closed. [end if]

  A thumbwheel protrudes [one of] slightly [or] about a quarter of an inch [as appropriate] from the side on the end of the small compartment, looking like the winding stem of a pocket watch.

• SpeedIF 11, part six (2000)

  > x cigarette lighter (@ Basement)

  A typical cigarette lighter.

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  A Sugared Pill (2005)

  > x lighter (@ Behind the social club)

  Looks like your average 5 for a pound gas lighter to me.

• Tanker and Webb (1999)

  > x lighter (@ Dark Corner)

  You smoke, but only when the cigarettes are someone else's. Hence, a lighter.

• The Tiny House (2010)

  > x lighter (@ Inside Shed)

  A small bic lighter used to start fires.

• Under Cover of Darkness (2000)

  > x zippo lighter (@ Top of Stairwell)

  Your trusty zippo lighter has never failed you, but it's beginning to feel rather empty.

• Volcano Isle (2001)

  > x lighter (@ Sandy Beach)

  It is a plain, plastic cigarette lighter.

• Default response instances

  • The Richard Mines (2017): cigarette lighter @ Office.