advent
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This comes from ADVENT, in which the idea is to explore an underground cave with many rooms and to collect the treasures you find there.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
Its principal divisions are as follows: I. ADVENT, the Coming of Christ; the Season includes four Sundays.
From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by Miller, William James
And on mine, be it confess'd, Is this year's ADVENT, as it passeth o'er.
From The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres by Bowring, Edgar Alfred
This goes back to the original PDP-10 ADVENT, which would respond in this wise if you asked it to do something involving an object not present at your location in the game.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
The second of the great early experiments in computer fantasy gaming; see ADVENT.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
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