#for the record I am 100% sure this abides by the AO3 terms of service only like 50% that the way I am using archive.org is legit

[dancingplague]

Fun fact, this is true in the sense that AO3 does not host anything but text, but it implies that you cannot embed a text adventure and have it be interactive on the work page, and that is *not* true, you can, it's just tricky.

The trick here is that AO3 lets you embed media from archive.org and archive.org has an in-browser MS-DOS emulator. As far as I know, I am the only person who has ever taken advantage of this, for an extremely simple little experiment game that I am still fond of.

Now the tricky part is that this is an MS-DOS emulator. So you can't just upload your z-code file and expect it to run. Instead you have to, uh. Well. You have to.

Okay if I'm being honest I forget how I did this part. It was March of 2022 which was the worst of what was in retrospect clearly post concussion syndrome, I only very vaguely remember doing this project and I didn't write it down. I think I must have found some way to convert the z-code file because I definitely wrote the game in Inform 7. The game does run though! You can type commands into the emulator from the AO3 work directly! As long as you are not using firefox. I do not necessarily recommend following these steps especially the part where you get a mild head injury and don't write anything down