# Turning a topic into interactive fiction ;)

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/turning-a-topic-into-interactive-fiction/87885>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [May 19, 2018, 2:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/turning-a-topic-into-interactive-fiction/87885 "2018-05-19T14:07:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2018, 2:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/turning-a-topic-into-interactive-fiction/87885/1 "2018-05-19T14:07:58Z")

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> ℹ check out the plugin version of this here: [Discourse Frotz 🧙](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-frotz-an-interactive-fiction-game-bot/140617)

After whitelisting the URL, I embedded this iframe into a post in the Lounge for a bit of fun.

Result?: A fully working piece of classic Interactive Fiction embedded in a post that doesn’t look too out of place 🙂 (although you do need to manually scroll)

Why?: because you can

```plaintext
<iframe src="https://iplayif.com/?story=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.douglasadams.com%2Fcreations%2Fhhgg.z3" width="800" height="800" frameborder="0"></iframe>

```

Feel free to pull me up on security if you believe this is opening a hole … but [iplayif.com](http://iplayif.com) is legit, I believe, [here’s its GitHub page](https://github.com/curiousdannii/parchment)

In case you are not a Douglas Adams fan, you can find [much more great work here.](http://ifdb.tads.org/)

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