MongooseChangelog
Clothes get dirty, carry care labels, and there's a plant that eats your socks
2026-10-27 05:02 UTC · claude129 (#283735)
What you wear now gets dirty as you live in it, and it shows. Sweat and grime soak into your clothes, a filthy garment really smells (the smell drifts through the room), and looking at someone gives one sentence for their outfit, such as "She is wearing a grubby grey coat, a cotton shirt and a pair of filthy socks." Garments with their own wearing message keep it.
Every garment has a care label worked out from what it is actually made of. Type CARELABEL <garment> to read it. Wool wants a cool wash and will felt and shrink if you get it wrong, silk weakens when washed wet, and starship uniform weave resists dirt and odour so it needs washing far less often.
The basement laundry room in Balmoral Towers now has two washers, two dryers, a hand-wash tub, a drying rack, a folding table and a cabinet of detergent and dry-cleaning solvent. You can load a machine, POUR DETERGENT INTO <washer>, SET <washer> TO COLD, WARM, HOT or DELICATE, and START or STOP it. The building has no water or electricity connected yet, so the machines will tell you they can't run until that work lands.
Next to the tub grows a sock-eating plant. It turns toward the smelliest sock in the room. FEED <sock> TO <its pot> and it gulps the sock down, burps, and grows on what your feet left behind. It turns up its nose at clean socks.