Inspired by Prakbot, an XMPP bridge to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure, allowing anyone to play the text-based game via Jabber or GoogleTalk, I decided it might be fun to write a similar XMPP bot using Ruby's XMPP4R. In addition to figuring out how to make an XMPP bridge to a z-machine I also wanted to bridge to other text-based game systems, like a MUSH/MUD or a Trivia game.