 Briggs's literary background led her to write the company's only romance-genre text adventure.She also chose an explicitly female lead character, again unique for Infocom (other lead characters were either of unspecified gender, male, or allowed a choice of sex).She explained these choices by saying, "C. S. Lewis said he had to write "The Chronicles of Narnia" because they were books he wanted to read, and nobody else had written them yet.