1997 XYZZY Awards Winners The winners were announced in a live, online ceremony on ifMUD: A MUD Forever Voyaging: Best Game Interstate Zero (Adam Cadre) Best Writing Sunset Over Savannah (Ivan Cockrum) Best Story Babel (Ian Finley) Best Setting A Bear's Night Out (David Dyte) Best Puzzles The Edifice (Lucian Smith) Best NPCs Frenetic Five vs. Sturm und Drang (Neil deMause) Best Individual Puzzle The language puzzle in The Edifice (Lucian Smith) Best Individual NPC Bob in She's Got a Thing for a Spring (Brent VanFossen) Best Individual PC Tracy Valencia from Interstate Zero (Adam Cadre) Best Use of Medium The Tempest (Graham Nelson)