Visible Enchanter is now available to all

For November, we return to the Lands of Zork. Sort of. As usual, the source code repository is also live, licensed with the open-source MIT license. In addition, I've posted high-resolution scans of the original folio manual and feelies. Enchanter is a fan favorite for good reason. The mechanics of scrolls and spells is evocative and supports a terrific puzzle experience. (My own Hadean Lands was directly inspired by thoughts on how Enchanter intertwines its puzzles.) The NPC Adventurer is of course a loving and joke-dense roast of the Zork trilogy. I spent some time trying to work out exactly how the Zork and Enchanter storylines fit together. The truth is that this is a bit of whimsy; any serious attempt at Zork historiography rapidly flies off a cliff. You can infer that the Adventurer is from somewhere in Zork 2 or 3, since he's met the Wizard of Frobozz but he hasn't been turned into an old robe-and-staff guy. But then you pull him out of the Underground Empire into the…