You are bored. There’s nothing on TV except some stupid reruns. You wander into your local book store and pick up an interesting-looking book entitled Zork: The Cavern of Doom. As usual, you turn to the first page and begin reading.

The book is set in the magical land of Zork, where a new, incredibly rich underground realm has just been discovered. Dozens of adventurers have entered The Cavern of Doom, but none have returned. Only you can save them! There are bad-tempered warlocks, huge diamonds, dragons, and a giant empire to explore. It looks like this book is good!

Do you choose to save the kingdom? If so, read on!
Go to page 2.

Or do you choose to go home and watch reruns?
Go to page 7.

“That’s funny – I’ve been thinking about that Land of Zork all day, also.”

The Kingdom of Zork is a magical land far away, a land where Bill and June are known as Bivotar and Juranda, a land ruled by their “uncle” Syovar. Twice before, Bill and June ventured there, once battling the evil Krill, would-be conqueror of Zork, and once saving Syovar from the terrible wizard Malifestro.

Go to page 9.

In front of your TV, your eyelids slowly close. A strange sound fills the room. Suddenly your eyes open; you realize that you have been snoring.

You can’t get that Zork book out of your mind, but the book store is already closed.

Think again! Wouldn’t it be wise to purchase the book now?

It is the first cool day after a week-long summer heat wave, so June and Bill are taking the opportunity to bicycle to Lookout Point in the hills outside of town. It is a favorite “secret spot” of theirs, and they come here often.

As the sun reaches its zenith they arrive at Lookout Point, a small plateau bordered on one side by rolling hills and on the other side by a steep cliff. They sit down under the familiar overhanging rock, which offers some protection from bright midday sun. The edge of the cliff is just a few yards away. Neither of them speaks for a long while.

Finally, June breaks the silence. “You know what I’ve been thinking, Bill.”

Bill absent-mindedly tosses a pebble over the edge of the cliff. “I give up. What’ve you been thinking.”

“It’s been two months since our last adventure…”

Go to page 8.

In Dorner’s manifesto, he states:

You are saying to yourself that this is completely out of character of the man you knew who always wore a smile wherever he was seen.

This is a reference to the racial epithet that all black people look the same.

While Jones admits that he shares his skin color with Dorner, he makes it a point to say that skin color is essentially the only resemblance he has to Dorner which serves as another concentrated effort to separate himself from Dorner in the minds of those who read this manifesto.

In Christopher Dorner’s manifesto, he states:

Self Preservation is no longer important to me. I do not fear death as I died long ago on 1/2/09.

In addition to this, Dorner likened himself to the Viet Cong and Islamic fundamentalists because – like him – these groups embraced death and, as a result, were unstoppable forces.

By stating that he fears dying, Jones is making a conscious effort to separate himself from Dorner (while simultaneously carrying on the underlying concepts of police corruption and racism present in Dorner’s manifesto).

This is in reference to the happenings that surrounded Christopher Dorner, which came to a fatal conclusion on February 12, 2012.

In short, Dorner was charged in a series of shootings on police officers and their families from February 3 to 12, 2012 that left four people dead, including two police officers. Additionally, three police officers wounded. He was the subject of one of the largest manhunts in LAPD history, spanning two U.S. states and Mexico.

On February 11, the Riverside District Attorney filed charges against Dorner for the murder of a police officer and the attempted murder of three other officers. The following day, Dorner died during a stand-off with police at a cabin in the San Bernardino Mountains.

Interestingly enough, Jones' manifesto begins much like Christopher Dorner’s:

I know most of you who personally know me are in disbelief to hear from media reports that I am suspected of committing such horrendous murders and have taken drastic and shocking actions in the last couple of days.

By starting their manifestos this way, both Jones and Dorner aim to quell the disbelief surrounding their circumstances, albeit circumstances that are worlds apart.

Disbelief, by definition, is an unwillingness to accept something as true. Therefore, each of the respective sentences aim to disarm the disbelief of those closest to them in order for their words to be taken seriously.

Joe Jones is a 48-year-old, ex-LAPD patrol officer who retired in 1998. Like Christopher Dorner, Jones stressed “the injustices of Police Corruption, Scandal, Lies, Deception and Brutality.”

Jones claims that he had his “Civil Rights violated on several occasions” by the LAPD, had himself been falsely arrested at gunpoint, and lost so much trust in the police department while an officer that he could “no longer wear the Uniform.”

This manifesto, which was originally posted to his Facebook page (since removed) and then circulated Tuesday, directly addresses “unethical LAPD and all agencies."